Caught this story on Radio Ulster this morning. There are a lot of blackened junctions around mid-ulster for sure and it being a regular occurence certainly seems to be causing annoyance to residents. Bernard Sparkes is a man at the end of his tether. For many months he's had to put up with screeching tyres and burning rubber outside his home in the County Antrim village of Armoy close to Ballycastle. He says his life is being made a misery by speeding drivers doing handbrake turns and "donuts" at a junction close to his house. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-16294831
Sounds like a do gooder blowing things out of proportion. Many rural roads are the same. It may be a silly thing to do. But how many people have died as a result of this ? How many people have been injured ? How many people have been inconvenienced ? How many burglaries has it caused ? Does it leave people scared in their houses at night ? I suspect "no" to all of the above. These "road safety" experts have no notion about risks. But their "speed kills" agenda proves that. Just take a look at the number of pedestrians and cyclists etc killed each year, yet what are they doing to improve that ? Very little actually.
for a second i thought that was jaslad although on second thoughts he's more likely to be on the m2 on cruise control
Listen to the article in the link - in fairness the guy is saying it is a regular occurrence and has autistic kids so is making family life particularly difficult. Look at it another way, this is taking it to the media and PSNI wheras look at Millisle and Comber in the mid 2000s where some took it into their own hands.
I can see where there coming from, as Coog says, would p!55 the 5h!7 out of me too. But then as above, no1 has died etc yet. I reckon they should get a big car park set up and allow for people to randomly come in and diff for a bit and in Regards to affording tyres, public mustn't be aware of part worn etc
What a complete crock. Would you want it happening outside your house? And if these knobs are mid donut in the middle of the road when another car comes along, how is that not a safety issue?
This isn't a road safety expert commenting on it, it's a local resident. And to be honest, if someone was diffing outside my house constantly, the noise would be pretty annoying - don't seriously tell me it wouldn't bother you?? If guys want to diff, there's more than enough organised & legal events nowadays where they can do it to their heart's content. Or head to an industrial estate or somewhere abandoned. Diffing every night at a junction outside some guy's house isn't on.
Seriously, can't believe some of the comments on here. A load of wee spides outside your house diffin at all hours of the morning is blowing it out of proportion? Your a lot more tolerant than me!!
out with the camera = job done. Tho youd probably get your windows smashed in or worse. harmless fun maybe (although some of the muppets out there have come close to getting hit) but do it away from peoples homes. It would drive me mad going on at all hours for sure.
I think the rubber markings on the ground make an area look awful - mid ulster is just a disgrace Most of it is in the Sperrin "Scenic Route" too... There's a car around here that seems to have no exhaust at all and you can hear it for miles. It went past our house on the main road and woke up our baby and we could still hear it until it was miles away. I would certainly get annoyed at someone diffing outside my house.
ive often wondered if you were to go somewhere quiet, industrial estate, unused ground etc, and the psni did turn up, would they be as hard on you , as opposed to catching you in a public area. argument being your not near anybody, not causing disruptance, not endangering anybody, or.. would it be a case of dangerous driving regardless. EDIT** Also if your by yourself and not showing off for friends, where the exhilaration and peer pressure become to much
Yeah easy enough to covertly video them and hand it in to the cops. Job done. I'd crack up if that were at my door.
I hear the tarmac in Armoy is actually white.......just looks black because of all the Nankangs. To be fair to the guy if its a regular occurance, I can imagine there is nothing like the squeal of tyres, the bwapp-bwapp of a Janspeed, the regular flash of Cibies and the hiss of boiling coolant to help you drop off into the land of nod every night.
Aye you'd still get a right royal rollocking at least, probably more these days. Used to be a bit of an arse when I was on R plates in the mighty Micra 1.0 Sport. Never got done/points for anything but would have got some serious bollickings for being a retard. One particular bollicking started after I performed a reverse to forward rolling burnout (as much as the K11 could manage) about 100ft from a cleverly hidden meat wagon.
True.. Once had an officer have ful yarn with me after pointing out the reg plate was in the front window of the car, and not on the front, was only because some C**t had pulled the old one off, and hadnt got round to replacing it. but apart from that sound officer