Why do I get vicarious pleasure from this story?

"It also shows that four wheel drive vehicles do not have the off-road capabilities some imagine they have"

Suppose they should just stick to the school run then /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Serve them right if the insurance company refuse to pay out.
I lived in Twickenham as a boy. Right by Richmond bridge there is a slipway on the Twickenham side. Despite prominent warnings there were frequent cases of cars parked at low tide, and submerged at high tide, or when the cofferdam just downstream was lowered. Always good for a laugh when the owners returned.
 
tee hee

In my home town in the early nineties a similar thing happened and I really felt for the idiot....

A guy decided to drive his brand new 3 day old beemer onto the beach at Hoylake on a Saturday night. He drove out far enough that he had enough distance from the promenade to give him and his girlfriend some privacy. 3 day old car remember.

In the early hours he tried to leave and buried it up to the axles. It was spring tides. There was no one around the lifeboat house or sailing club to get a tractor out. 3 days old. No insurance on the beach. Normally he would have got away with it, on neaps the tide would not have reached the car. That night, the tide covered the car. Bad timing or what?

Add to the fact, it was his new company car, I think he was a rep. I would love to know what happened on Monday morning.

Add to the fact, I wonder how he explained why he had parked on the beach to his wife.

I did not know him, I got the story from the SC boatman who took the tractor out to the tearful drivers car on Sunday morning. I do not think he was a local chap, but still wonder to this day how he survived the fall out. I sometimes think back to that situation when things like work was getting me down and realised my problems will generally sort themselves out. It takes a special kind of person to screw up like that bloke did /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
It seems that the huge increase in road tax for "gas guzzlers" and Chelsea Tractors suggested in this morning's newspapers for the Budget might be unnecessary. The owners are capable of making them unuseable all by themselves
 
Still happens there - and I can't be the only person who looks up the tide tables for a Sunday lunchtime high tide to decide when to go for a riverside drink.

Last one was a beemer (they often are) which led to a very special moment with loads of applause when all his CD cases floated up to his sunroof.

It's a downward slope towards water which is many yards away with no yellow line - must be fine to park on.

What really gets me is how rarely the owners try to do anything - are they embarrassed with all the spectators, or really eating somewhere else?
 
Nice to see the idiots are still at it!
Do they still lower the dam in the footbridge next to Twickenham bridge (the Chertsey road bridge) from time to time? I remember that could cause the water to come higher up the slip than normal and sometimes caused flooding near the Swan pub in Twickenham, whilst the dam protected properties downstream from the worst effects of spring tides, by cutting off the flow of river water. I don't know if the Thames barrage has made it redundant.
 
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