@Rat Man - With stuff like that I try not to blame the person who thought it up.  Everyone can have dumb ideas from time to time.  But the guy who said "Yes, I like this idea. Let's do it!", he needs a good smack in the face.

Yes, Kick. Sadly such inane stupidity works.  Always has.

I was having a driving lesson and some guy was right on my back bumper. I was driving the speed limit because, ya know, it was a driving lesson. My instructor was getting more and more annoyed with this arsehole so just turned and said to me "Look, you shouldn't do this but this guy is being a prick" he reached over and stuck the hazard lights on and very lightly touched the brakes to start slowing down the car. Guy behind quickly pulled out around us and sped off. My instructor turned off the hazards and muttered "Dickhead..."

   It should be perfectly legal to shoot on sight people who drive twenty mph under the speed limit. 

   Technically a cop can write someone a ticket for driving drastically under the speed limit but they never do.

You need to start a business where you fill up compressed air tanks on good air days and then sell them to people on bad air days. 

We went out mushroom hunting in the woods a couple of days ago. I was thinking there would be no more mosquitoes. A bit on each hand that are still itchy and raised up. What was worse than that was that the mosquitoes have been replaced with mooseflies. Horrible disgusting little buggers. My wife's uncle asked me to check the back of his shirt once we got back to the summer cottage. He had around 6 crawling around on him. One hit my ear but didn't bite me and my wife had numerous crawling around in her hair. Horrible.

So this is an odd one, but it's been bugging me  all week.

Last Saturday some numpty pranged a brand new 21 reg Lexus hybrid SUV on the bypass.
We're talking 50grands worth of vehicle.

I'm guessing the car had been nicked, otherwise insurance would have recovered it the same day. And keyless entry is so easy to copy that only new cars can be nicked these days.

And for some unknown reason it stayed in the pull in where we enter the dog walks, until yesterday.

So we're looking at at least 5 grand in alloys and tires another couple in the catalytic convertor and God alone knows what the battery pack and engine would fetch.
The bonnet is too bent to close fully, so no real breaking in was necessary to strip the engine.

And nobody touched it !
Not even a broken window.

Now I admit we're not in a city or town, but come on there must be some nere-do-wells around.
It's on the main trunk road literally thousands of cars and trucks go past everyday.
And nobody touched it !

Instead of mugging or burglaring or conning some poor Sod, they could have  just put on a yellow jacket and stripped the car of everything of value.

It's a plain fact that if you put a fluorescent jacket on, you can do anything and nobody will bat an eyelid.
Not only that, but nobody can ever describe someone they saw in a yellow jacket. You just see the jacket and never really register the person wearing it.

But nope, nobody touched any part of the car.
Well it disappeared sometime yesterday, so either the police got round to telling the person it was nicked off, or some enterprising individual took it away on a recovery vehicle

And I know it should make me feel all fuzzy and warm that I live somewhere so crime free.

But swad is a hotbed of drug dealers and drugs gangs.
We have no local police station, so drugs and county lines gangs are all over the place.
We've had a couple drug related murders this year, so we do have more than our fair share of scumbags in the area.

Now if they'd only take up some honest criminality, that car could have meant at least one less drug dealer in the area for a year or so.

So there you have it, my pet peeve this week is that nobody stripped an abandoned car.