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Just how stupid can people be?

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H1954 Sat 02-Oct-21 10:20:22

I've just read a news item.......a number of motorists followed a tanker for some distance.........to a building site. The tanker was carrying mortar but the motorist assumed it was loaded with fuel.
One of the motorists then had the nerve to berate the tanker driver for not stopping to say what his tanker was loaded with.

grannyqueenie Sat 02-Oct-21 16:26:59

Desperate times call for desperate measures!

trisher Sat 02-Oct-21 16:53:25

I love this story thanks!

lemongrove Sat 02-Oct-21 17:25:02

I saw this story posted on another thread by Algerias it made me?

lemongrove Sat 02-Oct-21 17:26:25

LauraNorder

Fancy berating the driver, he’s not going to cement good relationships with that attitude.
Mortar the point he should have come up with a concrete proposal for signage on lorries.

You’re on fire today Laura ? ( stay away from petrol)?

LauraNorder Sat 02-Oct-21 17:28:42

Thanks Lemon, Orlin does tell me I’m hot…..

DiscoDancer1975 Sat 02-Oct-21 17:42:37

We need people like this, otherwise there’d be nothing to talk about on gransnet?

M0nica Sat 02-Oct-21 17:52:14

Out today driving between Abingdon and Reading. Every petrol station I went past was open and carless.

Quite relieved as I need to top up on Tuesday for a 200 mile round trip Wednesday/Friday. I last visited a petrol station in early September,as we have been on holiday for a fortnight.

Lucca Sat 02-Oct-21 18:26:34

LauraNorder

Fancy berating the driver, he’s not going to cement good relationships with that attitude.
Mortar the point he should have come up with a concrete proposal for signage on lorries.

No foundation for that story Laura, I’d need concrete proof

Lincslass Sat 02-Oct-21 18:38:04

Stupid is as stupid does goes the saying. All their tanks contain now is hot air, wonder if they got home. Hope the tanker driver got help, and reported them to police.

LauraNorder Sat 02-Oct-21 18:38:22

Can’t give anything more without labouring the point and rendering the evidence useless.

Lucca Sat 02-Oct-21 18:39:16

LauraNorder

Can’t give anything more without labouring the point and rendering the evidence useless.

Boom boom

LauraNorder Sat 02-Oct-21 18:39:49

And no Lucca I’m not plastered

LauraNorder Sat 02-Oct-21 18:41:11

Come on Lucca after the volleyvent catering at tennis you can do better

SueDonim Sat 02-Oct-21 21:32:03

Let’s not throw any more brick bats around at these poor benighted drivers. grin

My dd was telling me about her local Facebook group. Someone had posted a rant about anti-social behaviour by kids in the local park and commented that ‘the little sh*ts should be birched’.

In the responses someone said ‘Do you know where your own little sh*t was last night? Because I can tell you - he was in the park, behaving anti-socially with all his pals.’

Ranting Man replied ‘How dare you call my son a little sh*t?’ and then a general free-for-all broke out online. My dd said it was most entertaining! ?

Lucca Sat 02-Oct-21 21:55:40

LauraNorder

Come on Lucca after the volleyvent catering at tennis you can do better

Are you stalking me ?!

Lucca Sun 03-Oct-21 05:57:56

Lauranorder…joking.

muse Mon 04-Oct-21 11:43:18

Brilliant. Keep it coming LauraNorder and others?. I need a giggle boost this morning ? .

Nannan2 Mon 04-Oct-21 11:48:02

??? completely cheered me up for the day!

GraceQuirrel Mon 04-Oct-21 11:55:13

How can you follow a tanker for miles and miles if you need fuel?

JaneJudge Mon 04-Oct-21 12:01:18

grin Suedonim we get hours of entertainment from our local facebook too

Growing0ldDisgracefully Mon 04-Oct-21 12:01:58

Very entertaining, thank you!

Another example of stupidity, and looking forward to any witticisms Laura and Lucca or anyone else can create: we are plagued in Bristol with the daft use of e-scooters. Recently spotted was someone on one of these, actually in the outside lane of the M32! Complete with a passenger....
The Darwin Award springs to mind.

4allweknow Mon 04-Oct-21 12:33:52

Absolutely stupid I thought as I read the article too. Any one with an ounce of sense knows tankers with dangerous chemicals/gases on board display a disk showing what they are. There were about 20 vehicles following the tanker on the motorway until turning off onto the road for the building site.

Interested Mon 04-Oct-21 12:34:45

Boz

So all tankers on the roads must display "We are not carrying petrol".
Please don't follow an Army tanker; you could end up on a firing range.

??

PippaZ Mon 04-Oct-21 12:37:35

Grandmabatty

Maybe they were desperate? I know it's a funny story but I can imagine if you had been desperate for fuel you might follow a likely tanker. It detracts from the very real problems we have just now.

Just another nasty, attacking thread Grandmabatty. Obviously some people never make a mistake.

Scottiebear Mon 04-Oct-21 12:37:47

The older I get the less I cease to be amazed by some people's stupidity. Although, once in a while, I see or hear something that leaves me incredulous.