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21st January 2022, 23:18 | #481 |
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From Jan 29, here in the UK, opening your car door with the wrong hand will get you a £1000 fine.
Sounds absurd, but when one looks into the reason for this, it makes sense. (Bear in mind that the left and right hand mentioned applies to countries were vehicles keep to the left, such as the UK: in those that keep to the right these should be the opposite) New Highway Code rule will fine drivers £1,000 for opening door with wrong hand A new rule will see drivers fined £1,000 if they open the door with the wrong hand, as the Highway Code is updated.Source: Code:
http://standard.co.uk/news/uk/highway-code-rule-fine-drivers-opening-door-dutch-reach-b978093.html
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Autonomous-car 'users not legally accountable' call Human drivers should not be legally accountable for road safety in the era of autonomous cars, a report says.Source: Code:
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Well, I guess that's one way of disposing of unclaimed mail: I can't be kept in a warehouse forever...
Royal Mail investigates video of staff eating hash brownies at work The footage showed staff apparently under the influence of cannabis goods from an unclaimed parcelSource: Code:
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No brownies here but amusing...
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Farmer who flipped car cleared of criminal damage because ‘Englishman’s home is his castle’
yahoo.com The Telegraph Martin Evans February 4, 2022 Richard Rayner British writer http://youtu.be/6th0L5_Dbk8 A farmer who wrecked a car parked on his land with a tractor has been cleared of criminal damage after he successfully used the 400-year-old legal principle that “an Englishman’s home is his castle”. Robert Hooper, 57, became an internet sensation in June last year, when a video of him using the spikes on his telehandler to flip a £16,000 Vauxhall Corsa went viral on social media. The hill farmer from Upper Teesdale said he had been forced to take action after he came under attack from a "strutting and agitated" shirtless youth, who had refused to move the car from his land. Mr Hooper said he did not call police because he had been burgled eight times and found they were often slow to respond. He went on trial at Durham Crown Court after being charged with dangerous driving and criminal damage. But he was acquitted of all charges after telling the jury: “An Englishman's home is his castle and my castle starts at that front gate." Michael Rawlinson, his barrister, told the court that the origins of the phrase could be traced back to 1604, when Sir Edward Coke was the attorney general of England. "This whole case is about an Englishman's home being his castle and his right to lawful self-defence of himself and his property," explained Mr Rawlinson. In an early 17th century ruling, known as Semayne's case, Sir Edward stated: “The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress as well for defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. "If theeves [sic] come to a man’s house to rob him, or murder, and the owner or his servants kill any of the theeves in defence of himself and his house, it is no felony, and he shall lose nothing." The case against Mr Hooper also became a town versus country debate, with the farmer and his neighbours railing against people who had used their isolated, rural community as a playground during lockdown. The court heard how Elliott Johnson and Charlie Burn, his passenger, had parked the Vauxhall Corsa on Mr Hooper's land when the vehicle suffered a double blow-out. They were making their way home to Tyneside after spending the day at Low Force waterfall with five friends. Mr Hooper, who had been sillaging and bailing, drove down to speak to the driver to explain the car was blocking access to his field. He told the court: "I said: 'Now then lads, can we have this car moved, I need to be in and out.' "Instantly, Burns was right in my face. Throughout Covid we'd been two metres from people and here he was five inches from my nose. He was on edge and agitated and full of himself. "I asked him politely again: 'Can we have this car moved?' and he said: 'I'm not f—--g moving this car. “With that he punched me in the face, which rather shocked me. I said I was only asking him to move the car. " Fearful that they might have weapons, Mr Hooper said he then climbed into his telehandler and, using the forks, picked up the back of the car and pushed it onto the road. However, the car clipped a post of the farm gate and flipped over, causing massive damage. A video of the incident was uploaded to social media and quickly went viral. Mr Hooper said he and his neighbours in Upper Teesdale had been plagued by anti-social behaviour during lockdown, with an influx of tourists. He said: “There has been anti-social behaviour, drug-taking, people lighting fires, knocking walls down and blocking the roads with parking, causing a threat to people as well." Jacky Meeson, his neighbour, who was also called to give evidence, said: “Our area became very popular because of the rivers and countryside and hordes of people came out who were not used to being in the countryside but wanted some freedom. "With that came a lack of respect for the countryside and the people who live there. There was a general feeling of being invaded by something we were not used to." Mr Hooper denied dangerous driving and criminal damage and argued that he had been acting in self-defence. Surrounded by a dozen of his friends and neighbours, Mr Hooper hugged Karen Henderson, his partner of six years, as the verdict was delivered. Speaking outside court, Ms Henderson said: “The support of his local community and also people from afar has kept him going through these last eight months of hell, which have been terrible. "The whole thing has been such an ordeal for him, he's not someone who likes to be the centre of attention so this has been difficult. "It's been wonderful to see so many people from the Dales come to support him, that really means a lot." William Wearmouth, a 66-year-old farmer who was also one of those who made the journey to court from Upper Teesdale, said: “Robert Hooper is a decent, honest man, the hardest working man in the Dale and the jury got it right. "He did nothing wrong, he was under attack and he did what he had to do to protect himself and his property. "Since lockdown, the Dale has been deluged by people who visit and don't really understand the country. "We all understood what he went through because we all saw the way people, young people especially, were behaving and causing disruption to everyone's lives.” |
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Man Gets Life For Fatally Running Down Acquaintance After Mayonnaise-Based Argument
yahoo.com Gina Tron February 4, 2022 An Iowa man has been sentenced to life behind bars for repeatedly running over an acquaintance with his truck and killing him after a heated argument that stemmed from a squirt of mayonnaise. Kristofer Erlbacher, 29, of Woodbine was sentenced to a mandatory life sentence on Monday for the 2020 murder of 30-year-old Caleb Solberg of Moorhead, the Des Moines Register reports. He was convicted in December of first-degree murder for the incident, which began with the two drinking and eating at a bar with another person. After Erlbacher put mayonnaise on Solberg's meal, the two then got into a fistfight, Harrison County Judge Greg Steensland wrote in his verdict. Erlbacher eventually left in his truck, but spotted Solberg outside a café in nearby Pisgah later that evening. While driving from the bar to the cafe, Erlbacher had apparently called Solberg's brother, Craig Pryor, twice to threaten both brothers, and specifically declared that he’d like to shoot Solberg with his shotgun. And then, still apparently fuming over their mayo fight, Erlbacher mowed Solberg down with his pickup truck. After running him down once, he left — and the first strike was not fatal. But Erlbacher then decided to turn back to run over his pal again two more times. Erlbacher then called Pryor, Solberg’s brother, to inform him that he'd killed his sibling. "'It was just another bar fight in Harrison County,' until it wasn’t any longer," Pryor said during the trial, according to the Register. Erlbacher had claimed that he did not intentionally kill Solberg and his lawyers attempted, unsuccessfully, to reduce the charge to second degree murder. He also tried to blame alcohol for his actions that night. "Even if Erlbacher is under the influence of alcohol, he is responsible for his acts if he had sufficient mental capacity to form the specific intent necessary," Steensland wrote in his verdict. "Intoxication is a defense only when it causes a mental disability which makes a person incapable of forming specific intent." He added that the “evidence shows beyond a reasonable doubt that Erlbacher acted without justification." |
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An Oregon woman was duped into thinking she was training to be a DEA agent for almost a year, officials say
yahoo.com/INSIDER Matthew Loh February 6, 2022 A woman in Oregon who believed that she was training to be a Drug Enforcement Administration agent realized she had been tricked for a year by a man pretending to be her supervisor, according to a criminal complaint seen by Insider. Robert Edward Golden, 41, is accused by Portland officials of impersonating a DEA special agent, using false credentials to gain information from residents and installing red-and-blue emergency lighting in his car to navigate traffic. He also kept a tactical vest affixed with "DEA Police" patches, two body-armor-plate carriers, handcuffs, badges, and an AR-15 style rifle which turned out to be a BB gun, an affidavit from a DEA special agent, Morgan T. Barr, said. Authorities discovered and detained the pair on February 1, after a police sergeant noticed one of the vests in the open trunk of Golden's car and approached them. The officer asked Golden if he was a sworn federal agent, and Golden said that he and his "trainee" were both "Feds" working in Portland. Golden then told the woman to show the officer her fake badge, according to the complaint. The pair were transferred that night to DEA investigators, and Golden then admitted the credentials were fake, according to the affidavit. This time, he claimed he and the woman were "into cosplay" and had the equipment and badges because it provided them with "protection," officials said. Golden also said he had previously helped break up a fight by shouting, "Police!" and holding up his badge like an officer, per the document. According to the affidavit, the unidentified "trainee," who wasn't charged, told authorities that Golden had given her a DEA badge and photo ID and said she'd been in training for a year while attending school for criminal justice. She said Golden had taken her on night surveillance "ride-alongs." She said he also took her practice shooting and often mentioned four other supposed DEA agents by name — "agent Anderson, agent Luis, agent Garcia, and Ms. Bennett." The DEA agent who filed the complaint said there weren't any agents on the force by those names and that the agency doesn't provide "ride-alongs." The complaint did not mention Golden's possible motivation for tricking the woman into believing she was a DEA agent. If found guilty, Golden faces up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, The Oregonian reported, citing Assistant US Attorney Greg Nyhus. |
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