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lifes2short

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Daughter left her car in a car park and came back to this, so infuriating. No panel damage from the look of it but bumper and wing to be painted
and blended. Her dashcam caught sod all because it was raining, so just a white blurr.
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that is a bugger, some youngster or oldy probs, my youngest had her Audi rear bumper scraped a few weeks ago whilst a hooray henry youngster tried to pull past her at a junction, luckily he pulled over and gave his details, when i reviewed the dash cam footage of him getting out of his brand new car all he was wearing was shorts and flip flops and apparently late for a party :lol:, did tell him later after dealing with repairs that it's 9 points if caught driving with flip flops
 

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It’s particularly annoying as her little car was immaculate apart from a couple of wheel scapes there before she bought it.
I am guessing £300 repair, last year my wife’s car got done anonymously and my sons friend bashed his car, but obviously sorted the repair!
Will I be next o_O
 

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It’s particularly annoying as her little car was immaculate apart from a couple of wheel scapes there before she bought it.
I am guessing £300 repair, last year my wife’s car got done anonymously and my sons friend bashed his car, but obviously sorted the repair!
Will I be next o_O

whoever was responsible could of at least written a note ;)

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i was surprised as well, my wife mentioned it as saw something on the interweb, dont think insurance company would be too chuffed about it either

Yeah, my point was it's not actually true. You might get prosecuted: 'If you are stopped by police while driving in a potentially dangerous manner or your footwear is a reason for an accident, you could be charged with driving without due care and attention (careless driving).'

And that might lead to up to 9 points and a £5000 but driving in flip-flops (or sandals, or bear feet) is not, of itself, illegal

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I’m calling bullish t, if one got stuck under a pedal and you crashed maybe just maybe you’d get done for driving without due car and attention.
 

lifes2short

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I’m calling bullish t, if one got stuck under a pedal and you crashed maybe just maybe you’d get done for driving without due car and attention.
in fact they do get stuck because it did happen to me once when in a hire car abroad, what happens is the base/end of flip flop jams on carpet and as it flexes when pressing accelerator it jams the pedal with the friction, fact not bs, that kid that hit my daughter may have experienced te very same thing as it was an unusual scrape
edit: i can tell you something for nothing it was fecking scary as well
 

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in fact they do get stuck because it did happen to me once when in a hire car abroad, what happens is the base/end of flip flop jams on carpet and as it flexes when pressing accelerator it jams the pedal with the friction, fact not bs, that kid that hit my daughter may have experienced te very same thing as it was an unusual scrape

No different to get your winkle pickers or brothel creepers jammed though.
 

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I have been reliably informed by my 17 year old nephew that those are not flip flops they are in fact “sliders”.

All I know is that they’re the sort of thing the fat swimming instructor used to wear when I was a kid, you know the sort that had a staring role in the Charley Says adverts.

looking at the actual video footage, they look completely dangerous footwear to me and exactly the thing i mentioned about jamming, they're also look about 2 sizes too big for him, would be far safer to simply drive barefoot imo
 

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looking at the actual video footage, they look completely dangerous footwear to me and exactly the thing i mentioned about jamming, they're also look about 2 sizes too big for him, would be far safer to simply drive barefoot imo

They look lethal to me too and even more so my nephew seems to wear them with socks!
 

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Yeah, my point was it's not actually true. You might get prosecuted: 'If you are stopped by police while driving in a potentially dangerous manner or your footwear is a reason for an accident, you could be charged with driving without due care and attention (careless driving).'

And that might lead to up to 9 points and a £5000 but driving in flip-flops (or sandals, or bear feet) is not, of itself, illegal

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I'm pretty sure if you are caught wearing bear feet you will also be in trouble with the wildlife protection people.
 
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