Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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@boomzilla What was that even supposed to mean? Or is that shopped? I don't see obvious signs of shopping, but I seriously doubt it's an official sign (in any orientation).
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@Bulb you have as much information as I do.
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Bulb you have as much information as I do.
All I know is that someone can't open their car door because of how close to the pole they are...
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@dcon Strange. Most often if a pole gets too close to a car, very soon both the car and the pole will be gone from there
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@Applied-Mediocrity unless they've wandered into some sort of a joke, surely.
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Even if it meant "tandem bike lane" this is a terrible symbology....
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@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Or is that shopped?
It looks (from the variations in the intensity of the white areas) like a hand-painted sign.
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@dkf said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Or is that shopped?
It looks (from the variations in the intensity of the white areas) like a hand-painted sign.
Now that you mention that, the border of the circle looks rather rough too.
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When you are driving while drunk, and already caused an accident from where you just drove away, it is not really advisable to stop next to the motorway police and pee into their compound...
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50 km of motorway had to be closed after a vehicle lost a "white powder". That powder is said to be not dangerous by itself (so: no anthrax), but caused the motorway to be extremely slippery.
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Saw a rather funny sticker on the back of a B-double truck.
The right side had a right arrow with "Passing" underneath. The left side had a left arrow with "Suicide".
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@loopback0 Why not just go to a police station? Not that I don't appreciate the humor or anything.
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@lolwhat Yeah, I also don't see why you would need to call 911 over this. Over here I once called our German equivalent of 911 for a non-emergency (though I had been explicitly told by police officers to do so under the circumstances I was facing) and almost got my head ripped off for calling them due to a non-emergency (though the dispatcher relented when I told her my story and then probably forwarded it to those officers' superior to ream them a new one - she told me that it was likely that they fobbed this one off because it was time to clock out, even though in principle they'd have to have stayed with me).
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@Rhywden Come to think of it, a lot of police departments here in Uhmerica have non-emergency telephone numbers... although it's an open question as to whether a 911 operator gave that info to this guy.
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@lolwhat Same here (0900-8844) though as far as I've heard that should only be used for things which can wait a few hours. I don't know if the fire department has a national non-emergency number, and non-emergency medical services always go via your GP.
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@lolwhat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Rhywden Come to think of it, a lot of police departments here in Uhmerica have non-emergency telephone numbers... although it's an open question as to whether a 911 operator gave that info to this guy.
One of the big problems with that is everyone knows "911". I know I've written down the non-emergency number (somewhere), but there's no way I could call it without doing a lookup first.
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@dcon I know for a fact I could reach the police here in Lisbon if I dialed the local prefix followed by whatever number POLICIA spells in T9.
tries to visualize without pulling up phone
That would be 217 654 242 I think?
checks
Nailed it.
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@Zecc seven-two-five... three.
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@Zecc said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Rhywden said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
German equivalent of 911
NEIN EINE EINE?
Next eine,
Four eines you get a tank.
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How not to behave during a traffic stop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGaLHuPW7_4
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
How not to behave during a traffic stop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGaLHuPW7_4"This happens to me all the time!"
Gee, I wonder why...
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@Deadfast I also liked her excuse to the cop for why she was acting like that, "I have daddy issues, and I don't like men."
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Deadfast I also liked her excuse to the cop for why she was acting like that, "I have daddy issues, and I don't like men."
I kept hoping the police would "break" and make her spend the night in jail.
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But at least the delivery of Coors was on time.
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
But at least the delivery of Coors was on time.
Hah, I just watched that movie with my wife a couple of days ago. She didn't like it.
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@Zerosquare said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Aaw, look at the car playing in the snow. 😍
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Zerosquare said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Aaw, look at the car playing in the snow. 😍
Suddenly thinks about that turtle video that was recently posted...
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Aaw, look at the car
playing in the snow. 😍FTFY
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Zerosquare said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Aaw, look at the car playing in the snow. 😍
My mom's coworker once had a bizarre car accident that ended with a Panda on a tree.
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@dcon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
One of the big problems with that is everyone knows "911". I know I've written down the non-emergency number (somewhere), but there's no way I could call it without doing a lookup first.
Around here, it's 311.
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@jinpa the thing about non-emergency numbers is that it's not a problem that you have to look them up.
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@Gustav You are overestimating the average person. By having a number that's as easy to remember as 911, the hope is that it will keep Florida man from calling 911 for non-emergencies.
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@jinpa ...I actually didn't think of it. Maybe because I'm used to my country's police actually handing out huge fines for unnecessary emergency calls, so nobody makes unnecessary calls.
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@Gustav said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Maybe because I'm used to my country's police actually handing out huge fines for unnecessary emergency calls, so nobody makes unnecessary calls.
That's... rather scary, and I hope they do so within reason!
Somewhat related, a few months ago my electricity meter broke down (cables eaten by ants apparently). Random power cuts happen since I'm in the middle of nowhere, so it took us far longer than it should to realise and by the time I decided to call support it was too late for the regular supplier's support number. I therefore called the national grid 24/7 number, which ran me through at least 2 or 3 sterner and sterner messages about how this number really only was for emergencies such as a power line on the ground and so on. Which definitely wasn't the case, we had no power but other than that there really wasn't anything serious going on.
I stayed on the line, thinking that at worst they would tell me to fuck off and call back during regular hours the next day. If there had been a serious threat of a fine, I don't know if I would have.
In the event, the support person didn't hint in any way that I shouldn't have called, dispatched a technician who came within the hour and fixed the issue without any complaint either. So their messages were just trying to scare me for no good reason.
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
That's... rather scary, and I hope they do so within reason!
Surprisingly, I think this is actually the case, given that I have heard of absolutely no controversy regarding this ("controversy" meaning: a legitimate emergency call being punished.)
Truthfully, it's not something terribly hard to get right, if your aim is to discourage pranksters, hoaxers, and dumb people. You dispatch a response team, and if you find that the situation did not warrant an emergency response, you charge them for the pleasure, so they know better next time (and if it was a hoax, like a bomb threat - which happens every so often - there are stiffer penalties.)
Utility emergencies are a slightly different matter, and - traditionally - they got separate three-digit numbers (don't know if they now go through the 112 master dispatch, or not). From what I have observed, however, something like "I have no power/water/other" seems to be a perfectly legitimate use case (though when you would actually receive a response is a separate issue based on severity, number of people affected, etc.) In any case, I don't think you'd be in danger of penalties - at worst, you'd be told to suck it up and call regular support in the morning.
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@GOG said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
something like "I have no power/water/other" seems to be a perfectly legitimate use case (though when you would actually receive a response is a separate issue based on severity, number of people affected, etc.)
That is also my understanding, on both parts of your sentence, and the reason why I called the number without hesitation (nor deviation or repetition, though it took far more than a minute...). And this is also why I was surprised to get so many stern warnings on the line before getting through to someone, and why I was a bit worried when the messages framed it so much in terms of "life threatening emergency."
Though given the split between electricity suppliers and national grid (ah, the wonders of liberalisation, and how the same electrons provided by the same actual wires can cost you different prices), it's likely that the national grid operator gets a lot of calls about e.g. billing, because people are easily confused (or maybe they just call the number which is prominently displayed on the meter itself, i.e. the national grid emergency number!). So this may be different from the regular emergency numbers.
Truthfully, it's not something terribly hard to get right, if your aim is to discourage pranksters, hoaxers, and dumb people.
On paper, I would also assume so, yes. But the surprise is that in this case the practice seems to live up to the theory! Good for you then. (though probably not good that the problem was serious-enough to justify this in the first place... some people really are morons)
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
my electricity meter broke down (cables eaten by ants apparently).
What kind of genetically-modified ants do you have?!
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@Zerosquare I don't remember where (maybe this was that time, but I'm not sure?) but someone told me once that some cable insulation is starch-based and some critters like it.
Or maybe they didn't "eat" the cables. We just found an ant nest inside the meter itself, so it would probably be enough if a couple of ants had accidentally created some short circuit inside the thing. 400 V, no surcharge protection since it's on the public side of the network... I'm guessing those specific ants were not even toasted, rather entirely vaporised!
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
no surcharge protection
French power billing seems complex.
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Rule 160 of the Highway Code states: "Drive or ride with both hands on the wheel or handlebars where possible. This will help you to remain in full control of the vehicle at all times. You may use driver assistance systems while you are driving. Make sure you use any system according to the manufacture's instructions."
If a driver is found not to have proper control of their car, they could well be slapped with a £1,000 fine, a discretionary disqualification, plus three penalty points on their licence.
Motorists should also think twice before flashing their headlights to say thanks, with Rule 110 of the Highway Code stating: "Only flash your headlights to let other road users know that you are there… Do not flash your headlights to convey any other message or intimidate other road users."
Again, drivers could face a bruising £1,000 fine if found to be in breach of this rule.