Car trouble
I’ve got the weirdest little fault with the Golf at the moment. In front of the handbrake is a little square button that you press to get the petrol talk cover to pop open. Recently, this button’s decided it doesn’t like being there and randomly shoots off with a *ptwang*. It started happening when I was pressing it, and has now progressed to happening utterly randomly. I was heading home last night when I heard a *ptwang* *ptoo* and just saw it out the corner of my eye ricochetting off the gearstick and under the passenger seat.
The thing is, there’s no way top open the petrol lid without this button. I’ve tried bending the legs that hold it in so they grip better, but over a few days they “relax” again and it’s like waiting for a shaken bottle of pop to shoot it’s cork out. Only while driving. Which is not a good idea, that’s why I have been learning more about cars lately from sites as autonews.center online.
The button currently resides in the ashtray and is taken out for when the car needs fed. I darent try and glue it in place in case I render it unpressable.
Responsible football fans – whatever next
From the Northern Echo 06/07/05:
Three men who intervened to stop football fans who were fighting on a packed train have been praised by a crown court judge.
The passengers formed a barrier between rival supporters as they clashed following a North East game last season.
Trouble flared on a Virgin service to Birmingham in September when WBA fans attacked three NUFC supporters as the train approached Darlington…..the (judge) accepted that the travelling WBA fans had been the aggressors.
Judge Briggs ordered that passengers Stephen Haveron, Ian Maxted and Tom Harbord should be awarded £100 from public funds for their intervention in the fighting.
He said ” I do not think I should leave this case without making some public acknowledgement of the three people on the train who, unlike many these days, were prepared to get involved and stop matters escalating.
“They acted in a responsible, indeed courageous , fashion in intervening, and acted as some form of barrier between the potentially warring parties”.
I know these guys (ish) – they’re part of the Yorkshire Mags. Well done, lads. Apparently this press release was the first they heard about the “award” as they didn’t make it into the courtroom! The nob in the dock pleaded guilty so they weren’t required as witnesses.
but I like cars – does that make me a boy?
Wasn’t one last time I checked but you never know – hang on, I’ll just have a rummage ….. yup, still a girly, all gibs present & correct
I had no idea that you could be awarded money from public funds like that, other than perhaps by way of compensation. However, they probably prevented a far larger sum of tax-payer’s money being spent if things had escalated. A £100 is a great idea. A little thankyou from society and I suspect that the thankyou means more than the money.
Well done lads!
JJ – gibs? I’ve never heard of *those* bits being called gibs. Are you sure you didn’t make a mistake? I’d be glad to double check for you.
Ss – nope, neither had I although isn’t that where Crimestopper awards come from? Or is that a different “money pot”?
Gibs -> giblets -> squelchy flappy bits from chickens, no? just me then!
thanks for the kind offer of assistance but years of rummaging experience have left me with an impeccable instinct for these things so I shall respectfully decline your generous offer!
JJ, you don’t know if you’d had a good rummage until you let an expert (a.k.a. pervert) have a go for you… Mind, I’m only trying to help (myself).
Isn’t technology wonderful? For a few years, at least, then the vorsprung takes a holiday from the durch technic and you’re buggered.
Dead impressed with your Magpie mates though.
Confession time though. I’ve always had a soft spot for NU. It goes back more years than I care to remember when the Magpies met MU in a cup match at OT when they were in Div 2, I think.
You got stuffed 7-1 and we had the Geordies in seats behind us while we stood in front. Expecting a barrage of expletives and phlegm, what we got was good-natured banter.
Mind you, NU were crap in the Cup Final against Liverpool (was it ’73?) losing 3-1 when I had a fiver on ’em to win.
Some thing you can’t forgive.
Ah – typically fickle ManUre fan. Never happy! 🙂