General Chat

We stopped at a convenience store today to buy a paper. I stayed in the car.

Outside the shop was an edgy looking young man with spots and a hoody ,looking anxiously along the road.

In a few minutes I heard the loud, throbbing music and the lad rushed across the road to meet the car and then pedalled away at speed on his bike. The car with the loud music sped off in the other direction.

It was obviously a drug deal but the car, which I assumed was the dealer, and which played the music to look cool, was ,wait for it, a Y reg Nissan Micra!

Think of the street cred.

life moves in mysterious ways.........

hey, mr. tambourine man.................play a song for me.......

Are you sure you haven't made it up? A Nissan Micra sped off?

Never!

Trying to look innocent then in an insignificant type of car lol? Fancy drawing attention to themselves with the loud music and the speeding!

Bob, that's one of my all time favourite songs of my youth!

Lizx

The police are trying to use such techniques as ANPR and "vehicle marker" along with 5am police ram raids to crowd low level dealers out of business. The police are also using Oyster card tracking and other fairly obvious digital techniques.

The dealers respond by making sure their cars are street legal which means Saxos and Corsas as the insurance is somewhat lower. They are also increasingly using fast city push bikes and free runners. Fat bobbies loaded down with gadgets cannot cope with the latter at all.

All of this is working quite well, so well in fact that drug gangs in SE London are being driven further down the A2 moving from Woolwich to Deptford.

All of this can be modeled using the same maths as has been used for badger TB control. The science for the badger suggests that nothing short of total eradication of badgers will do the trick - music to the ears of the NFU who dislike any moving thing in the countryside except their stock and staff.

I wonder what the Home Office will conclude when it eventually dawns on them that all the bash and blues and razamatazz is just driving the problem around in circles ? High powered tazers ?

Looks like they will just cull anybody under forty.

For a Micra it was going fast.

Sharron - I loved your opening post.

Thank you Errol.

Was it one of my better ones?

Sharron this has made me laugh. A lady at my Yoga class drives a Y Reg Micra, I will keep a close watch on her in future.

And plays loud rap music?

Paula what the hell sort of Yoga have you become involved in, gal?

For heaven's sake give it up before it is too late.

The start of the slippery slope!

I can hear it now - in years to come you will be sitting in therapy trying to warn others - "It started off with just the occasional Standing Deep Breathing Pose maybe once a week. But then, as my yoga addiction grew, I found myself tempted to try more and more complex poses until it got to the stage where I wouldn't even leave the house in a morning without at least a Full Locust Pose."

Paula!!!! You are with friends. We can and will help you through this difficult time!

Sharron - definitely one of your best - had me in fits of laughter last night.

Oh Errol you are a one. I am not easily lured into temptation .......... except if it's shoes handbags, clothes etc ;-)

Or anything that woman might have in her Micra.

Just looking out for you.

LMAO Sharron

speeding off

http://www.modifiedcars.com/cars/nissan-pictures/nissan-micra-pictures

I was offered a lift in one of these recently but was unable to get in so I walked. Probably best decision of the day.

Sharron she is a very careful driver it could be anything, but I suspect it may just be a nothing more than a dozen eggs.

Just changed the car from a 17 year old Peugeot 405 (90bhp if you are lucky, I killed it by towing a caravan to Derbyshire & back) to a Volvo XC70 (170+ bhp).

Just touch the throttle a little two hard and you're doing twice the speed limit in no time.

The 50 year old clean licence could be in danger!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2pYBBck5H4