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Just found out that you actually commit an offense if you fail to carry with you your documents while driving. OK so you are given a 7 day producer but nevertheless you have committed an offense. Wonder what other motoring laws are around that we don't really know about. Can I still urinate against the side of my cartwheel?
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 12/10/2007 at 14:59
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bale of hay in your taxi?
wheres lud when you need him?
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bale of hay in your taxi?
yes, ..and a bag of oats!
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bale of hay in your taxi?
I'm not at all sure that the law requiring a human being to be standing by when a car is parked (to hold its reins) has been repealed yet.
Suppose they got spooked in Sainsbury's car park and all started rearing up and lashing out at each other with their teeth and hooves... imagine the damage that would cause, with carp modern bumpers.
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Can I still urinate against the side of my cartwheel?
Only if you're a Hackney Carriage driver - on the rear offside wheel. a privilege one assumes in the pre-public toilet days
from the 'The Town Police Clauses Act of 1847' - AFAIK still extant.
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 12/10/2007 at 15:02
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snipquotefrom the 'The Town Police Clauses Act of 1847' - AFAIK still extant.
It must have been good business for wheelwrights.
"Oh yes, the rear offside. They always go. You ought to rotate them."
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 12/10/2007 at 15:02
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I believe any bona fide traveller is entitled to urinate discreetly between his vehicle and the road verge. If you use an open door for cover, though, be careful if there is a strong buffeting wind blowing.
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What documents are you legally required to carry? There are loads of redundant laws on the statute book, there isn't the time or political will to annul them I guess. Slight thread drift. In the 50s a student at Cambridge scoured the Uni rulebook and found that he was entitled to claim 4 pints of strong ale on any day when he was sitting examinations. He claimed and was grudgingly given his ale. 2 days later he was fined a guinea for not wearing a sword! Same book - different rule
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Mentioning the Town Police Clauses Act reminds me that, back in the '70s, an AA patrol was reported by a traffic warden for "maintaining or repairing a vehicle on a public highway" - still an offence under it's provisions.
He was apparently aggrieved because he couldn't give him a ticket for parking on a yellow line - a specific exemption apparently - although a colleague of his stuck one on an ambulance while they were actually attending to a fallen pensioner!
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I was once told that it is a criminal offence for a bus driver to display the wrong route information on a vehicle. Is this the case?
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Don't know about motoring laws but apparently it is still legal to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow within the grounds of Hereford castle on a sunday morning......not that anyone would want to of course.
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not really motoring but if you need to know the time in the middle of the night stick a big bass drum out of your bedroom window and strike it repeatadly,the nosey neighbour at number 43 will soon stick their head out of the window and shout
"what are you beating that drum at 3 in the morning for?"
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From the city walls in York you can still use your bow and arrow to shoot a Scotsman; Braveheart indeed.
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Ice cream vans may only sound their jingles when they have run out.
That's what I told my son when he was five. He's now fourteen and can't believe he fell for it.
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"what are you beating that drum at 3 in the morning for?"
LOL. Might seem a bit approximate though, until the pedantic neighbour at no. 37 throws his window open and bawls: 'It's only 2.54!', prompting the horologist at no. 41 to open his window and yell: '2.55 and 37 seconds according to my mint-condition Tompion chronometer...'
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Permission to pittle against ther wheel of a Hackney Carriage is no longer allowed under Town Police Clauses Act of 1847 or 1889.
Anyone found pittling in a public place will commit a By-Law offence under local Goverment Act. Those doing it with brown falling down liquid aboard can have collar felt for Drunk and Disorderly.
Any person killing a Scot with bow and arrow in York will NOT be excused and have collar felt and aligned for Murder.......
Whilst in days long gone and know to the Granddaddy of PU lot of these so called non offences are nobbut urban myth now.
dvd
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>>Anyone found pittling in a public place will commit a By-Law offence under local Goverment Act. >>
I'm currently trying to get my local authority to stop their bin men having their mid-morning pee in the bushes by our house!
Are local government employees / contractors exempt from the Local Government Act?
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"Are local government employees / contractors exempt from the Local Government Act?"
Yes.
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This is a simply the council using thier resources better, the bin-men aren't simply taking "a mid-morning" pee, they are in fact applying liquid feed to the afore-mentioned bushes.
Can't think of a motoring link! except that they've christened thier wagon Dennis!.
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motoring link - neither can I. Thread locked.
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