Hit and run and pass and pass and pass and

[DaveB]

As someone once paraphrased, "at least it is newsworthy"

Whilst it is newsworthy it is an anomaly. Once this sort of thing doesn't get reported, it is time to worry.

Once we start to see stories like "Good samaritan stops to help injured girl until amublance arrives", then we'll know we're in trouble.

"If it bleeds, it leads."

[threaded]

Oh brilliant!

So, what you're saying is that you reckon your own convenience is more important than the distress of a badly injured child.

It's unthinkable that so many failed to stop. What sort of country are we living in now?

Well, yes.

In Denmark, and most places, I'd feel safe to stop. In England I'd be worried about the plod making deliberate errors, people making completely false statements and all just 'cause I have a nice car.

It is one of the reasons I left the UK, I like to drive nice cars, and I'd like to do it without green eyed monsters causing me unwarranted grief.

Get hit with a stick often enough and you have to wonder why you get in its way.

If that makes me a bad person, well, I just don't care.

[bogeyman]

I like to drive nice cars

Says more about you than cash ever can (tm)

[xoggoth]

Driving round an injured girl is quite bizarre although Hyper has a point as far as less serious incidents go. I know somebody who stopped to help after an accident, then when called as a witness, was amazed to find himself being accused by the defendant's lawyer of being to blame for it.

[bogeyman]

Driving round an injured girl is quite bizarre although Hyper has a point as far as less serious incidents go. I know somebody who stopped to help after an accident, then when called as a witness, was amazed to find himself being accused by the defendant's lawyer of being to blame for it.

Yes I know. My brother-in-law is a lawyer and he freely admits that is job consists solely of bending the truth (or outright lying) in the favour of his client for pure financial gain.

In any decent sort of society, lawyers would be utter pariahs.

[xoggoth]

In Indonesia on a gasfield about 20 years back and used to be driven back & forward between the accomodation and the plant. I was warned that if my driver hit any of the locals we should drive off a quickly as possible, or if the car was out of action, to get out and run like hell, as their families and neighbours would kill you.

[bogeyman]

In Indonesia on a gasfield about 20 years back and used to be driven back & forward between the accomodation and the plant. I was warned that if my driver hit any of the locals we should drive off a quickly as possible, or if the car was out of action, to get out and run like hell, as their families and neighbours would kill you.

Same here - pretty much. Except that the family would stand around with a can of Tennants/Diamon-White each, and a mouthfull of chips, pointing and gawking at the deceased and going gooaooaahhrrr!

[threaded]

Says more about you than cash ever can (tm)

What are you on with now you blithering idiot?

[bogeyman]

What are you on with now you blithering idiot?

Sir,

I am stunned by the lucidity of your argument and must admit that I am no match for you in the intellectual or wittiness stakes.

I was simply observing that people who like to drive 'nice' cars (i.e. big flashy sports cars) are generally deficient in the reproductive organ department and have a poor sense of self-worth.

You also seem to take pleasure in the notion that people who see you driving your chariot are 'green eyed' and wish they were you.

In fact, they probably don't notice you and would rather be dead than be you.

HTH

Your obedient servant

R J H Bogey esq.

p.s. you are a ****, as Clavdivs would have it.

[threaded]

Sir,

I am stunned by the lucidity of your argument and must admit that I am no match for you in the intellectual or wittiness stakes.

I was simply observing that people who like to drive 'nice' cars (i.e. big flashy sports cars) are generally deficient in the reproductive organ department and have a poor sense of self-worth.

You also seem to take pleasure in the notion that people who see you driving your chariot are 'green eyed' and wish they were you.

In fact, they probably don't notice you and would rather be dead than be you.

HTH

Your obedient servant

R J H Bogey esq.

p.s. you are a ****, as Clavdivs would have it.

Ahh, you were just talking complete arse as per usual. Carry on.