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Captain Placid asks: What annoying things do significant others, workmates and other people in general do that drive you up the wall? Do you want to kill your other half over their obsessive fridge magnet collection? Driven to distraction over your manager's continued use of Comic Sans (The Font of Champions)? Tell us.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:11)
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I used to cross on a slight bend, near a posh school.
Even the lollipop lady was wary of the mums shooting round the corner well over the 30 limit.

As I was just off the kerb when one hurtled round, deliberately going on to the wrong side of the road to avoid me and the lollipop lady, I gave the rear wing a well placed kick with my boot.

Did she stop? It could have been a kiddie in the road but on she went.

I can understand if people just jump out, but this was with someone wearing a hi-viz jacket holding her arm up.
(, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 16:13, 1 reply)
I like all this "it's alright to damage someone's vehicle if they've endangered others and broken the law".
Guess I'm in the right to break someone's wing mirror off if they've parked near a school?
(, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 16:19, closed)
On the pavement, maybe.
I don't know if my boot damaged the car shooting past, but if someone takes a gamble with another persons life, just to get home 10 seconds quicker, then I consider the damage a fair trade-off.

I spoke to a copper about this once, and they said that if I'm on the zebra crossing and the car deliberately fails to stop (i.e. changes lane just to go around me) then they'd have a very poor case indeed to complain about criminal damage.
(, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 16:35, closed)
Deliberate damage would be bad
but dear me, I don't do deliberate damage. It's just unfortunate if I get thrown off balance and in flailing around to stay upright just happen to come into contact with the offending car.

Letting down the tyres of cars parked on the pavement is fun, though. For added yocks, unscrew and remove the valve centre so they can't be reinflated with a pump. Or so I am told.
(, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 19:22, closed)
It's all a bit council estate.

(, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 19:30, closed)

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