jinnyj
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It all happens in Sunny Somerset!
The road (about 500m) outside my house has been closed to install fibre optic broadband (which none of us actually want.....
) for the past two weeks. It’s a B road but there’s a fair bit of traffic. On the 5th, the second day of closure, the digger was left across the road so it really was impossible to get through. But the detour is only about five minutes extra so not a huge problem. Except that to some people....it is. So they kept removing the barriers and driving down only to find...ta da! Yup impossible. So they were turning around in my gateway and several were backing into the gates. So I got a bit fed up. I walked up and down replacing the barriers amidst a fair amount of verbal abuse. On this Friday afternoon, a woman in a pickup did exactly that...removed barriers, drove down, had to turn round. I shouted at her “which part of Road Closed do you not understand?” Red rag to a bull! Some verbal abuse I got. And she drove off.
Then last Friday....I was just explaining nicely to a man that yes there was a huge great trench which it wasn’t advisable to drive his brand new Lexus over....he was fine, turned round and drove away. I walked up the road...again to replace barriers. A pick up was approaching..at speed. Now I couldn’t see driver at this stage, So I waved to indicate it was impossible to drive through. It accelerated and drove deliberately at me. I got out of the way and it was Road Rage Bitch.
She obviously had to turn round (you would have thought she would have learnt by now?) and goes to drive off, wheels spinning, then stops, reverses and gets out accusing me of throwing something at her. Zero proof but she comes at me, phone in hand videoing me and screaming like a banshee. I do not respond apart from telling her to get off my property as she is forcing me back against my gate (within my curtillage). My mother hears the noise and appears. She does the same to my mother (who is 76) shouting about an inch from her face....certainly not social distancing and my mother has zero immunity. She called her a stupid old bat. I walked off to get my phone to take a photo of her car and do admit that called her the C word. (She did earn it...).
She tells us she’s called the police. Fine I said. She then accosts another driver who has just appeared saying they are witnesses?! To what? (I actually spoke to this poor lady and asked if she had seen and she was completely flummoxed)
I actually called 101 when I got in and put a report in in case anything else happened. They asked if I wanted to take it further but I said no because I thought it better to leave it. CPS would do diddly squit anyway.
Roll on to today. I went out to lunch to celebrate Porlock Bays win with connections. Came back and the police had called my mother to caution her and speak to me. Road Rage Bitch had sent them video. OK my mother did say she’d break her phone if she didn’t desist from screaming in her face and to get off our property but only after five minutes of verbal abuse forcing both me and her back against our gates. I have just spoken to police woman. I asked her if she knew that I had nearly been run over...no. She did admit that she had just been made aware of my report but hadn’t read it....So I said you believed this woman who was breaking the law by driving down a Road Closed? Not once but twice. She said Oh well, lots of people do that! Erm? Not the point. So I asked if it was OK for a 30yo woman to be abusive to a 76 year old pensioner? I will wager that Road Rage Bitch had spent a considerable time editing her video so she looked in the right. I cannot believe they were so taken in. The fact that we were getting cautioned and yet she hadn’t even read my version which went in on the day of the incident not several days later.
OK rant over....you can all step down now...:lol:
The road (about 500m) outside my house has been closed to install fibre optic broadband (which none of us actually want.....
) for the past two weeks. It’s a B road but there’s a fair bit of traffic. On the 5th, the second day of closure, the digger was left across the road so it really was impossible to get through. But the detour is only about five minutes extra so not a huge problem. Except that to some people....it is. So they kept removing the barriers and driving down only to find...ta da! Yup impossible. So they were turning around in my gateway and several were backing into the gates. So I got a bit fed up. I walked up and down replacing the barriers amidst a fair amount of verbal abuse. On this Friday afternoon, a woman in a pickup did exactly that...removed barriers, drove down, had to turn round. I shouted at her “which part of Road Closed do you not understand?” Red rag to a bull! Some verbal abuse I got. And she drove off.Then last Friday....I was just explaining nicely to a man that yes there was a huge great trench which it wasn’t advisable to drive his brand new Lexus over....he was fine, turned round and drove away. I walked up the road...again to replace barriers. A pick up was approaching..at speed. Now I couldn’t see driver at this stage, So I waved to indicate it was impossible to drive through. It accelerated and drove deliberately at me. I got out of the way and it was Road Rage Bitch.
She obviously had to turn round (you would have thought she would have learnt by now?) and goes to drive off, wheels spinning, then stops, reverses and gets out accusing me of throwing something at her. Zero proof but she comes at me, phone in hand videoing me and screaming like a banshee. I do not respond apart from telling her to get off my property as she is forcing me back against my gate (within my curtillage). My mother hears the noise and appears. She does the same to my mother (who is 76) shouting about an inch from her face....certainly not social distancing and my mother has zero immunity. She called her a stupid old bat. I walked off to get my phone to take a photo of her car and do admit that called her the C word. (She did earn it...).
She tells us she’s called the police. Fine I said. She then accosts another driver who has just appeared saying they are witnesses?! To what? (I actually spoke to this poor lady and asked if she had seen and she was completely flummoxed)
I actually called 101 when I got in and put a report in in case anything else happened. They asked if I wanted to take it further but I said no because I thought it better to leave it. CPS would do diddly squit anyway.
Roll on to today. I went out to lunch to celebrate Porlock Bays win with connections. Came back and the police had called my mother to caution her and speak to me. Road Rage Bitch had sent them video. OK my mother did say she’d break her phone if she didn’t desist from screaming in her face and to get off our property but only after five minutes of verbal abuse forcing both me and her back against our gates. I have just spoken to police woman. I asked her if she knew that I had nearly been run over...no. She did admit that she had just been made aware of my report but hadn’t read it....So I said you believed this woman who was breaking the law by driving down a Road Closed? Not once but twice. She said Oh well, lots of people do that! Erm? Not the point. So I asked if it was OK for a 30yo woman to be abusive to a 76 year old pensioner? I will wager that Road Rage Bitch had spent a considerable time editing her video so she looked in the right. I cannot believe they were so taken in. The fact that we were getting cautioned and yet she hadn’t even read my version which went in on the day of the incident not several days later.
OK rant over....you can all step down now...:lol:
