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Posted on July 4th, 2008 by ray.
Categories: General Blog.
This afternoon, Cat taught me what CIM is.
Woman “only fined” for killing 21 year old
Posted on July 4th, 2008 by ray.
Categories: General Blog.
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A Driver will be fined after an accident in which a young motorcyclist was killed.
Ashra Bibi, 45, of Bathley Street, The Meadows, pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention.
She was cleared of causing 21-year-old Christopher Lewin’s death by dangerous driving after a trial at Nottingham Crown Court this week.
Bibi had previously pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of driving without due care and attention, which carries a non-custodial sentence and a maximum fine of up to £5,000.
Mr Lewin came off his Kawasaki motorbike at about 3.30pm, on Friday, January 11, in Loughborough Road, near the junction with Boundary Road.
Bibi had her mother-in-law and two of her children in a Honda Civic. She had been travelling towards West Bridgford from the Nottingham Knight roundabout, near the fire station, when she turned right into a driveway, colliding with Mr Lewin’s bike travelling in the opposite direction.
Biba had denied causing death by dangerous driving.
After she was cleared, Mr Justice McCombe said his powers on the due care charge was a fine and he needed to see bank statements and ownership of property before making a decision at sentence on July 25.
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It’s wonderfully reassuring to know that if you really want someone dead, then you just have to kill them in your car. The most you can get is a £5000 fine. I bet that works out cheaper than hiring a hitman.
I wonder how many more people will have to be killed on English roads before we decide that “driving without due care” that results is a fatality should carry a manslaughter sentence?
Que Sera Sera, whatever will be will be, we’re going to Wem-ber-ly
Posted on July 4th, 2008 by ray.
Categories: General Blog.
I have yet to experience the new Wembley Stadium, so time to do it in style.
I have two tickets for the England vs. Czech Republic in August (which is four days before my 30th birthday)
And the seats are only three rows back from the pitch and behind the goal. Quality!
Now you understand the inner mysteries of yoga…
Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by ray.
Categories: General Blog.
I’ve had a revamp to this site and changed the templates around - however most of you probably read this on LiveJournal, so will be none the wiser :). For anyone that does go to www.supple.co.uk, then I hope this is more pleasing to the eye.
I tried Yoga last night for the first time ever. I didn’t know what to expect other than hopefully learning how to breath fire, levitate, teleport and extend my arms and legs to punch and kick people on the other side of the screen - however I think Dahlsim must have had different lessons. I will certainly go again and probably keep it up, however next time I will use a good decongestant first, as Yoga is about 80% breathing (from what I could make out) so not ideal if you are a Hay Fever sufferer and cannot breath out of your nose for three months of the year. I suspect now I know what it entails, I will focus less on the actual routine next time.
We have got the Ford Fiesta back now. For those that were not aware, it got battered (whilst parked up) due to another car opening it’s door as it was driving along our street, hitting our rear bumper and rather than stopping they instead carried on driving which meant the damage spread to the rear door, the driver door and actually ripped their entire passenger door off. I caught them int he act so it went through their insurance, but it’s still been stress and hassle we don’t need.
We had a hire car provided by the other party’s insurance, however they would not deliver it so had to go to Stapleford to collect it after work (they got us a taxi, but it’s still time that could have been spent elsewhere). The next sodding day the garage called saying the car was repaired (they initially said a week, so if I had known it was just a day I wouldn’t have wasted all the time with the hire car). They then tried to make me pay a £150 excess until I politely told them this was not going to happen as this was not going through my insurance but the nupmty who damaged our car in the first place). They then dropped our car back, however there still might be some damage to it (I can’t remember if it was like that already, as we had only had the car for a week and Lisa was using it so I never saw it much). I called the hire car company and they say to get the car back before half 5, which I point out is not going to happen as I don’t finish work until then so agree to do it in the morning (even though this involves cancelling my daily gym visit). This morning, despite being only 6 miles away, it took me 45 minutes as the F’ing M1 junction was closed so crazy traffic getting there. Still, finally dropped it off, got a lift back and that hopefully is that (but still need to check the remaining damage on our car).
As far as I am concerned, I am the innocent party here and my only ‘crime’ is that my car was the one this guy decided to trash. I should have as little inconvenience as possible, so should not be having to take 20+ calls from a hire company, garage and the other party’s insurance, should not have to trapse across Nottingham buggering about with hire cars and should not have to battle with the garage about what needs repairing. If I was the nonce who crashed his car, then I would accept I need a lot more involvement. Ah, damn my stupid ideas of customer service..
Anyway, I’m off to Ireland soon and the flights, airport parking and car hire is sorted so I can leave all my worries behind in merry old England and have week visiting the family, drinking stout and restocking on enough bottles of decent whiskey to see me through to October
There’s only one Keano
Posted on July 1st, 2008 by ray.
Categories: General Blog.
“Liverpool’s hopes of signing Robbie Keane from Spurs have been boosted as the striker has apparently told Juande Ramos he wants to move”
DON’T YOU BLOODY DARE LEAVE!!! I’VE WORN YOUR NAME AND NUMBER 10 ON MY LAST THREE SPURS SHIRTS!
“Keane, the club’s vice-captain and a popular figure with both players and the fans, was the subject of an initial inquiry last week, with Rafael Benitez offering a player plus cash deal of Peter Crouch and £5 million.”
AHG!!!!!!! Please, please tell me this is just a horrible dream!! PETER CROUCH?!? NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Fucking Disgusting
Posted on July 1st, 2008 by ray.
Categories: General Blog.
Lisa Badham-Moore (34) was driving her car when she took her eye’s off the road to twat about with a tissue box. In doing so, she veered off into the oncoming traffic hitting and killing outright a motorcyclist, Laurence Higgins (54) who diesd from massive fractures and a cut aorta.
She admitted to causing death through driving with undue care and used the excuse that she was a hay fever sufferer, which is why she was leaning over to the passenger door tray to look for tissues.
The victim was a seasoned rider of 30 years who had never had an accident before, was riding within all the speed limits and to the road conditions as well. There was just no way he could avoid a car swerving into his lane at speed. Witnesses to the accident confirmed this saying he was riding very safely.
So then, this woman has killed a man and left his wife a widow. How long was she sentenced for?
She wasn’t…
She was fined £200 and made to pay £60 costs, and wait for it - she was also told to pay a £15 victim surcharge. She also cannot drive again for six months.
I feel nothing but contempt at the UK justice system for valuing a man’s life so worthless and letting a fucking killer walk free.
As Higgin’s widow said: “I’m the one that has to live with it for the rest of my life, every single day - no justice, it’s very frustrating. The law hasn’t recognised my husband’s life and I’m just appalled at it.”
I feel the need, the need, for speed
Posted on June 28th, 2008 by ray.
Categories: General Blog.
Hah hah, I make no secret of my disdain to the application of speed cameras/traps in the UK, where the police will be hide away on deserted stretches of motorway rubbing their little hands in glee if they can catch someone doing 75 in a 70 zone rather than accident black spots, but every now and again I read something that makes me chuckle. This is one of them:
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“Two traffic patrol officers from North Berwick were involved in an incident whilst checking for speeding motorists on the A1 road last May. They were using a hand-held radar device to trap speeding motorists on the Edinburgh to London trunk road. One of the unnamed officers used the device to check the speed of an approaching vehicle, and was surprised to find that his target had registered a speed in excess of 300 miles per hour. The £8,000 radar then seized up and could not be reset by the bemused policemen.
The radar had in fact latched on to a NATO Tornado aircraft in the North Sea, which was taking part in a simulated low-flying exercise over the Borders and Southern Scotland.
Following a complaint by the Chief Constable of the Lothian & Borders Police force to the RAF liaison office, it was revealed that the officers had had a lucky escape. The tactical computer on board the aircraft not only detected and jammed the “hostile” radar equipment, but had automatically armed an air-to-ground missile ready to neutralise the perceived threat. Luckily the Dutch pilot was alerted to the missile status and was able to override the automatic protection system before the missile launched.
Lothian & Border Police Department have declined to comment, although it is understood that officers will be advised to point their radar guns inland in future.”
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La de da
Posted on June 28th, 2008 by ray.
Categories: General Blog.
I brought a few tickets for last night’s £46,000,000 Euro Millions Lottery. It turns out I won sweet fuck-all though. More annoyingly, there was one person who got all the numbers somewhere in the world. The bastard. I’m sure I would have spent all that money so much better than them, as my greed and lust for money has had so much more thought put into it. I bet it was won by some sad old twat who’ll be saying “I’ll not move house, it won’t change me. I’ll just leave it in my bank and die and it will all go to a dog’s home somewhere”
Ah well, at least not winning means my life expectancy is probably more than six months now, as I doubt I would last long otherwise.
Back to reality, the plan today is:
- Clean my bike at one of those jetwash thingies
- Put the tax disc on my bike
- Nip to the bank to chase up the welcome pack for my premier account (I want my black card!)
- Write to my uncle in Ireland to let him know when I’ll be there (he doesn’t have a ‘phone)
- Book car hire for Ireland
- Check with the repair company about our car they’re picking up on Monday (make sure they are coming to my work to sort it
Should keep me busy.
I always need to get out at some point soon (tonight would be good) as I’m feeling a bit stir-crazy and need to socialise somewhere other than the gym. Preferable somewhere that sells beer.
Any of you biatches up to anything?
Updates
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by ray.
Categories: General Blog.
I’ve knackered my neck from weight lifting today. Nothing major really, just a horrid muscle ache whenever I turn my head right, but reason enough to let it recover - so may give the gym a miss tomorrow if it’s still playing up which I think it will be.
Working Saturday and then Sunday it’s off to Notts to slap the Three store for my phone they will not/cannot repair and hopefully a spot of lunch while we’re in our fair city as well.
Life on Mars, y’all
Posted on June 20th, 2008 by ray.
Categories: General Blog.
I watched the pilot of the American version of Life on Mars last night.
I can understand in a way that they wanted to adapt it to an American audience, as naturally not many American’s are going to be familiar with modern day UK - yet alone seeing the 70’s UK, but evenso - it’s just so wrong 
You just cannot replace Philip Glenister with Colm Meaney (he played Mile O’Brian in Star Trek TNG and DS9 in case you don’t know the name) .
Added to which, the story and plot is the same - just Americanised, so you know what’s going to happen anyway in the first episode if you’ve seen the UK version - it’s just not as funny and well, a bit shit.