[Travel] Barcombe Mills flooding - Darwin awards

[Weststander]

Barcombe Mills has always been prone to flooding, making its roads impassable.

So today some frustrated drivers removed the “road closed” sign and barriers, trying to drive through, in the process flooding vehicle engines and requiring rescue.

https://www.sussexlive.co.uk/news/sussex-news/seven-rescued-barcombe-flooding-after-7985246

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-64139348

Well done

 

[Algernon]

I don't know how they all managed to get out of this alive.
If the baltic temperature of the water didn't get them then surely the raging torrent would've swept them away to the Mariana Trench like depths. They would surely never have been seen again.
Thank God and the emergency services they were all quickly and safely rescued without any loss of life..

 

[Easy 10]

Its stuff like this, and the massive queues to buy a fizzy drink made by some dinlo nomarks on YouTube that make me wonder whether the human race is going to make it.

 

[talk2knighty]

It’s stuff like this, and the massive queues to buy a fizzy drink made by some dinlo nomarks on YouTube that make me wonder whether the human race is going to make it.

Indeed, and don’t forget those idiots who spend hours each week communicating on online forums, in most with strangers, about other idiots displaying stupidity……

 

[el punal]

Its stuff like this, and the massive queues to buy a fizzy drink made by some dinlo nomarks on YouTube that make me wonder whether the human race is going to make it.

Your comment perfectly describes the scene at the McDonalds Drive Through (I refuse to use the Americanised version drive-thru ) in Hedge End, Southampton. Dozens of cars queuing around their car park and then backing up onto the main road causing traffic jams all around as they block the access/exits to other retail outlets. Convenience food? My arse!

 

[dazzer6666]

Your comment perfectly describes the scene at the McDonalds Drive Through (I refuse to use the Americanised version drive-thru ) in Hedge End, Southampton. Dozens of cars queuing around their car park and then backing up onto the main road causing traffic jams all around as they block the access/exits to other retail outlets. Convenience food? My arse!

Same in Burgess Hill. Constant blockages on a busy roundabout as Karen takes her kids for tea, happy to wait 45 mins in a queue of cars despite Maccy D’s literally being in a fvcking car park.

 

[Springal]

Same in Burgess Hill. Constant blockages on a busy roundabout as Karen takes her kids for tea, happy to wait 45 mins in a queue of cars despite Maccy D’s literally being in a fvcking car park.

The one at Arundel / Lyminster can be horrific too. Proper blocks the whole one way system.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Same in Burgess Hill. Constant blockages on a busy roundabout as Karen takes her kids for tea, happy to wait 45 mins in a queue of cars despite Maccy D’s literally being in a fvcking car park.

Those Ugg boots are a nightmare when walking through puddles

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Round my way, there is a ford that floods after heavy rainful. When the kids were little I'd take them to stand on the path overlooking it and wait. We were rarely let down by a bell getting stuck despite all the warnings under the sun on the way to it.

The only downside was the arrogant tossers who made it through straightforwardly in their 4 x 4s. I never had the pleasure of watching one get stuck.

 

[Stat Brother]

Fake news.
There's no way honest salt of the earth marginalized car drivers would do such a thing.
I bet cyclists hid the signs.






Oh.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Typical cyclist, complaining about others using the pavement that they like to use

 

[dazzer6666]

Those Ugg boots are a nightmare when walking through puddles

‘Slag wellies’

 

[dazzer6666]

Round my way, there is a ford that floods after heavy rainful. When the kids were little I'd take them to stand on the path overlooking it and wait. We were rarely let down by a bell getting stuck despite all the warnings under the sun on the way to it.

The only downside was the arrogant tossers who made it through straightforwardly in their 4 x 4s. I never had the pleasure of watching one get stuck.

The Rufford Ford compilations on Youtube are legendary………

 

[zefarelly]

Your comment perfectly describes the scene at the McDonalds Drive Through (I refuse to use the Americanised version drive-thru ) in Hedge End, Southampton. Dozens of cars queuing around their car park and then backing up onto the main road causing traffic jams all around as they block the access/exits to other retail outlets. Convenience food? My arse!

For award winning Darwinism you need to see the fucknuckles parked on the railway line at Shoreham McDonalds, desperate to get in for some processed lard

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Its stuff like this, and the massive queues to buy a fizzy drink made by some dinlo nomarks on YouTube that make me wonder whether the human race is going to make it.

It would make my year if 'dinlo' turned out to be tomorrow's Wordle answer

 

[Since1982]

Same in Burgess Hill. Constant blockages on a busy roundabout as Karen takes her kids for tea, happy to wait 45 mins in a queue of cars despite Maccy D’s literally being in a fvcking car park.

Will be even more chaos now given the shambles of the new traffic lights just up the road.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Fake news.
There's no way honest salt of the earth marginalized car drivers would do such a thing.
I bet cyclists hid the signs.






Oh.

I love the fact that the twatters are blaming the council rather than the wanka drivers (presumably for failing to barb-wire the pavement to keep the cars out, so that pedestrians could, er, something something something)

It was that f***ing Jeremy Corbyn again, wasn't it?

 

[BN9 BHA]

‘Slag wellies’

Also worn with pyjamas on the school run.

 

[studio150]

Self inflicted rescue, those that were rescued should have to pay for the emergency services attending.

 

[Acker79]

I would make my year if 'dinlo' turned out to be tomorrow's Wordle answer

And only three days in!