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[What's Burning?]

I hope they just weren't running late.

[Jabberwocky]

There is rules about how fast they can drive. There is also different levels of police drivers which also affects how fast they can go.

Shanghai House?

[myownalias]

Today we have decided to hand in our 30 days notice and break the lease where we live as we have been waiting six weeks to get a response from the maintenance people and/or owner about a leak in our bathroom. We have lost faith that things will get fixed; what would happen if we had a real emergency maintenance issue?

[andrew]

Yesterday i saw something and in hindsight it's actually made me think - WTF.

Basically i was walking to the Chinese at about 9pm, and these THREE cop cars flew past lights ablaze and i swear they must have been doing AT LEAST 70-80mph, they were seriously caning it to the point of me being shocked and amazed by how fast they were going. I cannot emphasise the speed enough. This was in a built up area where the limit is 30mph and there is always a fair amount of people about. But it made me wonder, what if they somehow hit someone or lost control at that speed? It was very wet here yesterday too. I mean why the hell should be police be allowed to drive THAT quickly in such an area? I appreciate that they obviously deal with emergencies, but what if something goes wrong? They aren't superstar drivers just cause they have had a bit of extra training.

Accidents have happened before and will happen again. 70 to 80mph in a 30mph zone is far too fast (unless they were trying to escape Godzilla, which they wern't 'cos if they were I'm sure that would have also got a mention).

The road conditions alone sounded totally unsuitable for those kinds of speeds in a built up area. Heck, it would have been dodgy in the daytime on a bone dry road in the same place! Maybe they were a bit too eager.

[scotty]

Shanghai House?

Yep! These lot were going up past the petrol station there.

[LRW]

This evening I've been furniture shopping.

We bought nothing.

[racechick]

N'er mind. Saved money!

[Jabberwocky]

Today was the little ones birthday, so we went out for a meal because Nanny and Grampy did not want to go to the local soft play. So that is our mission for tomorrow.

[LRW]

N'er mind. Saved money!

Wifes money, not mine.

[andrew]

I let off a time release fart at the end of this mornings toolbox talk nearly causing the supervisor to keel over! Naturally I blamed it on someone else and would have got away with it if I wasn't so honest.

Just thought I'd raise the tone of the thread.

[racechick]

Nice

[andrew]

Windows were opened due to a curdling of the air.

I like sharing.

[stonemonkey]

In more ways than one.

It's wrong to blame other people though, you should be proud of something like that.

[andrew]

I was very proud.

[vaptin]

Yesterday i saw something and in hindsight it's actually made me think - WTF.

Basically i was walking to the Chinese at about 9pm, and these THREE cop cars flew past lights ablaze and i swear they must have been doing AT LEAST 70-80mph, they were seriously caning it to the point of me being shocked and amazed by how fast they were going. I cannot emphasise the speed enough. This was in a built up area where the limit is 30mph and there is always a fair amount of people about. But it made me wonder, what if they somehow hit someone or lost control at that speed? It was very wet here yesterday too. I mean why the hell should be police be allowed to drive THAT quickly in such an area? I appreciate that they obviously deal with emergencies, but what if something goes wrong? They aren't superstar drivers just cause they have had a bit of extra training.

Social showmanship?