Motoring Discussion > They drove 33,000 miles around the world ... Miscellaneous
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New Wed 28 Dec 11 14:44 
 They drove 33,000 miles around the world ... - Dog
... in a 55-year-old classic car without a scratch, only to be hit in Sainsbury's car park


www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079062/Classic-car-survives-33-000-mile-round-world-trip-hit-Sainsburys-car-park.html
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New Wed 28 Dec 11 15:24 
 They drove 33,000 miles around the world ... - Westpig
Sums this country up doesn't it
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New Wed 28 Dec 11 15:55 
 They drove 33,000 miles around the world ... - Fullchat
My thoughts exactly when I read the article.
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New Wed 28 Dec 11 17:38 
 They drove 33,000 miles around the world ... - Dave
Ha, probably got a PCN on the way to them as well.
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New Wed 28 Dec 11 15:59 
 They drove 33,000 miles around the world ... - CGNorwich
Why?

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New Wed 28 Dec 11 16:23 
 They drove 33,000 miles around the world ... - Clk Sec
It's the luck of the draw really. Our modest limousine hasn't sustained any supermarket damage in the nine years that we've owned it, and it spends an hour or so parked at the local Sainsbury or Waitrose store each week.

Shopping before the arrival of the masses and being a little selective as to which space you occupy, etc, may reduce the risk.
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New Wed 28 Dec 11 18:17 
 They drove 33,000 miles around the world ... - Dog
We park our 'modest limo' well out of the way of the hoy poloy, and it works!
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New Wed 28 Dec 11 18:41 
 They drove 33,000 miles around the world ... - Armel Coussine
CGN, isn't Westpig's and Fullchat's point that these people have been all round the world through rough poor countries in their lovely old motor, and it has been shown due care and respect until someone dinged its old aluminium hand-beaten coachwork in a British car park and then did a shameful runner?

Policemen are professional moralists but I have always found that there were plenty of amateurs here as well. And actually I tend to agree with the moralists' position in this case. Shabby behaviour that.
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New Wed 28 Dec 11 20:18 
 They drove 33,000 miles around the world ... - Westpig
cheers AC....you've cheered me up......as you often do.

Glad to have you on board......... (on this occasion only of course).

'Professional moralist'. Haven't stopped chuckling at that one.. and even had to explain to SWMBO what I was grinning at.
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New Wed 28 Dec 11 23:34 
 They drove 33,000 miles around the world ... - CGNorwich
I suppose so but I'm not sure the the rest of the world is any more respectful of other people's motor cars than the average Brit. Hardly a car in France for example that doesn't have a ding or ten and I don't see the average Italian leaving a note under the wipers of the car they have just shunted out of the way to make a parking space. In a lot of the third world you would be lucky to find your car still had wheels when you returned.







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New Wed 28 Dec 11 23:52 
 They drove 33,000 miles around the world ... - Armel Coussine
>> In a lot of the third world you would be lucky to find your car still had wheels when you returned.

Not if you bunged the area boys to leave it alone... there are usually ways and means, usually not free. But I must say you have a point or two.

It isn't just the doing a runner really. It's the whole slapdash slobbish approach resulting in crap driving, then doing a runner. Selfish stupid crap people. It's a bit annoying that there are so many here, even if everyone isn't like that.
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New Thu 29 Dec 11 00:00 
 They drove 33,000 miles around the world ... - CGNorwich
Perhaps you need to slip a few quid to a local hoody to look after your motor when parking in Sainsburys
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New Thu 29 Dec 11 00:22 
 They drove 33,000 miles around the world ... - Armel Coussine
Perhaps CGN.

I suppose it is hypocritical to mind that sort of thing more here than elsewhere. But I do mind it quite a lot more. I mind beggars here more too.

The country has changed a lot since I was small. There are more people now who are worse brought up and worse taught. There are some deplorable attitudes that are widespread and pass for respectable.

I see some of this as an effect of cultural globalization (mainly through TV). But 'things fall apart' anyway. It's their nature.
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New Thu 29 Dec 11 04:16 
 They drove 33,000 miles around the world ... - Pat
>>Not if you bunged the area boys to leave it alone... <<

I remember having to do that in parts of Glasgow when I left the lorry to take the delivery into a building...and the area boys were only about 9 yrs old:)

Pat
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