Reply to: Sounds like Communist Moscow: Drivers face £5,000 penalty for using Olympic VIP lanes

[mcquiggd]

Our broken down rickety old trains arent eco-friendly.... one excuse I heard while commuting from Bath was 'the train will be delayed due to hitting a cow'.. now imagine how much dangerous gas was released from that exploding cow.... more than I could manage in a year of eating Mexican food...


Hopefully now that France is disintegrating into anarchy, we can import some of the guys who worked on the TGV, and have them put to work on our knackered old railways..... (as long as they dont wear towels as fashion accessories).

[The Lone Gunman]

I was under the impression that one of the reasons we won the games was because we were building (a) high speed rail link(s) which would mean that all access would be via eco friendly transport!

[mcquiggd]

Imagine having your bum forcibly removed! How do they cope when going to the toilet? Such a mess.
Do you get them back after the olympics?

I bet that advert with the catchy tune 'I see you baby.. shakin that ass..' has a hole new meaning in Mosvka.... grabbed by the fuzz springs to mind...

[datestamp]

Well ideally you keep atheletes off the street and stick them on the motorway:

Cyclists 'train' on m-way

David Rowlands, 53, a freelance public relations manager from Chorley, called police from a motorway call-box. He said: "I was concerned for their general safety more than anything else. They had the full gear on, with the swept-back helmets and the lycra. They were very colourful. And they were going very fast on the hard shoulder.

"I immediately thought they were Commonwealth Games athletes getting out for a bit of early-morning training. Who else would do that? I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

"I was going in the opposite direction but I could tell they were going very fast, maybe 40mph."

[Joe Black]

Caltrops

Thanks mcquiggd/owlhoot, I learn something every day on this forum.

A quick Google and I found loads of places happy to sell me such things. All I need to do now is remove the spare wheel and replace it with a nice little metal box with a servo to open the lid and....

Edit:
Wonderful...you can even buy guns which fire them in front of vehicles as well, and learn how to use them curtesy of the US Army in Iraq...

[planetit]

In Moscow when they have olympics or G8 summit or something like this, they use police to forcibly remove bums from streets away from the city, even though technically they have constitutionally protected rights.

Imagine having your bum forcibly removed! How do they cope when going to the toilet? Such a mess.
Do you get them back after the olympics?

[mcquiggd]

Caltrops....


And yes OwlHoot you are quite right, the referendum was totally against the councils plans... but hey, at least they saved money by not just asking the question until they got the answer they wanted... unlike EU referendums... they just ignored what the people wnated. A friend owns a Jewellry shop in one of the affected areas, and he says trade has dropped about 30% year on year...

See, democracy works....

[OwlHoot]

"A couple of bags of tin tacks into the much vaunted exclusive lanes should slow that down a bit..."

I've always fancied those little star like spikes I saw 007 dropping out the back of his car in Tomorrow Never Dies, much more effective...if you don't have run-flat tyres apparently

I think they're called caltraps. They used to be used in medievil times against cavalry.

[OwlHoot]

Edinburgh council has recently started closing main streets with these retractable bollards that pop up at seemingly random times from 10.30am until about 8pm... causing nightmare traffic snarl ups (and now is a traditionally quiet time of year). Next stage will probably be congestion charging for the areas they have now forced cars into through their unneccessary meddling with the existing road network...

Im so glad I dont drive.

I remember on the old CUK board a couple of years ago someone saying Edinburgh council had a mini-referendum on congestion charging, which come out with a resounding "no" contrary to the council's wishes, and I predicted they would turn spiteful and try to snarl up the traffic with road closures and bus lanes etc etc to show how misguided the peasant public are to thwart the council's wise and farsighted plans to rake in money (oops, sorry, to optimize traffic flow or something) ...

[AtW]

In Moscow when they have olympics or G8 summit or something like this, they use police to forcibly remove bums from streets away from the city, even though technically they have constitutionally protected rights.

[Joe Black]

"A couple of bags of tin tacks into the much vaunted exclusive lanes should slow that down a bit..."

I've always fancied those little star like spikes I saw 007 dropping out the back of his car in Tomorrow Never Dies, much more effective...if you don't have run-flat tyres apparently.

"Edinburgh council has recently started closing main streets with these retractable bollards that pop up at seemingly random times from 10.30am until about 8pm"

Saw something similar recently - maybe coming to the UK soon - where parts of a tram-lane were protected by such bollards that only go down when a tram approaches and gets the green light.

Actually with a bit of PFI you could put such things on every street corner and enable the automotive public to be herded about like a bunch of cattle on their way to the butchers....

[wc2]

Sorry Z I forgot to add Boom Boom at the end of that post

[wc2]

A couple of bags of tin tacks into the much vaunted exclusive lanes should slow that down a bit...

Yeah !!

go for really strong mint flavour !!

That will sort them out

[mcquiggd]

Edinburgh council has recently started closing main streets with these retractable bollards that pop up at seemingly random times from 10.30am until about 8pm... causing nightmare traffic snarl ups (and now is a traditionally quiet time of year). Next stage will probably be congestion charging for the areas they have now forced cars into through their unneccessary meddling with the existing road network...

Im so glad I dont drive.

[threaded]

Tin tacks? Sounds like your suggesting terrorist activities. Next we'll have people suggesting rocket propelled grenades.

But not at the athletes please.