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Best to put your foot down at that speed Welcome to the forum

Got to love my local butcher..... I went in to ask on the off chance if he ever got any rabbit in. I've never actually had any and fancy trying some. He said he doesn't keep any in shop as there isn't enough demand. Can get me one easy enough but in his own words its expensive for what it is. £5 each. I told him that sounds fine to me and to order me one. He said if I'd known you were happy to pay that for something that's running around freely in the fields I'd of charged you £10

When (if) it goes to court he'll turn out to be a promising footballer or is going into the army so can't have his life ruined by a prison sentence

Spending weekend away in the Scottish borders. It's a dark sky area so incredible to look up at the stars at night

Here you go @Bender Justin Lee [Redacted] Auckland 27th January 2004 New Zealand Police Infringement Bureau PO Box 9147 Wellington Good morning, INFRINGMENT NOTICE NS3735700 Yesterday, I was presented with the above infringement notice (copy attached for your records) while returning home from the Parachute music festival at Mystery Creek near Hamilton over the long Auckland Anniversary weekend. I had a most excellent weekend, but that is not why I’m writing to you at this time. Unfortunately, there are a couple of irregularities with the infringment notice that are causing me some consternation and hopefully you can clear them up or, preferably, forget about the whole thing entirely. Firstly, the ‘date of offence’ is listed as the 23rd of June 1974 with the time being at or around half past six in the evening. This is of grave concern to me because I was not issued a drivers license until sometime in 1990 and I have no desire to be charged with driving while not legally licensed. I do not have a clear recollection of very much at all before I was three and a half years old, so I rang Mum to see if she remembered what I was doing that day. She said that – coincidentally – I was born that day!! Mum mentioned that I was born at around five o’clock in the evening on that day in Porirua, which is not far from Wellington. She also said Porirua was a bustling suburb of young, low-income people who were trying to get ahead. Back in the 70’s, people were coming to terms with oil shocks, high-inflation and wage freezes, but that’s not important right now. For me to have traveled from Porirua to the foot of the Bombay Hills just out of Auckland by six thirty, I would had to have crawled into the first car in the hospital parking lot and headed for Auckland at around 1,000 km/h. For this reason, it is entirely possible that the constable who clocked me back in 1974 was holding his laser equipment upside down and instead of doing 116 km/h as per the infringment notice, it is more likely that I was doing 911 km/h. This is where it starts to get really strange. The car that I must have crawled into had the same license plate number as the one I have now – AEH924 (according to the infringment notice). However, my car is a dark gray Nissan Bluebird SSS, with dual cup holders, 1800cc’s of grunt, air-conditioning and electric windows. You will notice that a time-travel option is not included on this model, so that rules out any ‘Back to the Future’ issues and the car I was driving back then could not have been the the one I drive today. This is clarifed by the infringement notice which states that the vehicle was a Honda saloon. How this relates to my Nissan Bluebird, I cannot fathom. I can only hypothesise that, back in 1974, the first range of proto-type Hondas had an automated number plate changing mechanism (like on the A-Team) which were used to avoid parking tickets and facilitate safer getaways from burglaries, armed hold-ups and the like. So to recap, it appears that on my birthday on June 23rd 1974, I crawled out of the maternity ward, hijacked a seriously high powered Honda saloon with an automated number plate changing mechanism, drove to Auckland at close to Mach 1, was pulled over approaching the Bombay Hills and unwittingly changed the automated number plate changing mechanism to show the same number as a car I would own almost thirty years later!! (The chance of selecting the same number plate is a mere 1 in 308,915,776 – so quite conceivable) I am currently residing at the address listed at the top of this letter. I expect you will want to apprehend me fairly shortly now that we’ve established that I may have committed the following offences: – Grand theft auto (I probably stole the Honda as my parents drove a white Ford Cortina at that stage) – Driving without a license – Driving at a ludicrous speed using a motor vehicle – Evading the law using an automated number plate changing mechanism. If you could provide a clearer indication as to why the ‘date of offence’ is the same as my birthday, and why the vehicle make and type bears no resemblance to the number plate listed on the infringement notice, it would be appreciated. Mind you, I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we agreed to let this one go. I could really use the $120 dollars as I’m lowering my Nissan, installing excessively noisy waste-gate and boring it out for better performance in the street drags down Te Irirangi drive and around Weymouth. Thank you for considering my submission, I look forward to hearing from you. Regards, (Signed) Justin Lee Encl. Copy of infringement notice N3735700

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If you've finished yours can you come and help me?

My Google watch has fall detection. If it detects a hard enough hit it will start beeping loudly for 60 seconds. If I don't switch it off it will alert emergency services.

First time I saw that video it gave me a smile as i have always kept a set of old fashioned rope plugs rather than any of the newer types

Possibly. Would depend on year of bikes as well. Some also might be same carb but have a different throttle arrangement and probably different jetting

I think the £487 one has 256gb storage and the £270 one has 128gb after a quick look. Though there are loads of them being sold on there by different sellers and the prices are all over the place.

Evri delivery guy. " Was unable to deliver your package or leave in a safe space " that's not my house

I did some googling of the registration and I found that the letters UO are from the Devon area and were used between 1926 -1929. I'm thinking its an Ariel but cant be absolutely sure

@Bender after a bender by the looks of it

Could it possibly be a wheel bearing? Put bike on a stand or use a car jack to lift it and try spinning the wheel by hand when in neutral

A very good point. Technology keeps moving onwards. I work with a lot of Teenagers. One of the girls was doing her driving test last year and planned on taking the automatic only license as she was really struggling with her clutch control. I gave her the usual speech about how it would limit her choices etc when I realised that Electric cars are becoming more and more prevalent and realistically that will be the main kind of car she will drive for the majority of her life. Clutch control will become as obsolete as manually advancing or retarding ignition timing

Mentioned this a few times but its a story I like to repeat. When I did my cbt the instructor made us all squat down and run the back of our hands on the ground. She then said something on the lines of " now imagine doing that after coming off at 40mph " Thats stuck with me for nearly 25 years

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@S-Westerly a horse with no......

Yes boss!!

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