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"THERE is a lucrative new sport in the Wiltshire village of Luckington: fishing stranded motorists out of a ford at £25 a time. Since a road closure, dozens of drivers have blithely followed directions from their satellite navigation systems, not realising that the recommended route goes through the ford.
Steve Firth 114On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:07:43 +0100, Graham snip Fine so far. i.e. advertising. Which is off-topic. "Sod off spammer" in a reply. If you don;t like the charter then there are mechanisms...
Steve Firth 115Please direct me to this particular RFC. The thing about many RFCs is that they were written *long* ago, in a time when animated GIFs were all the...
Normally the water - the start of the River Avon - is about 2ft deep but it can swiftly double in depth after heavy rain.
Every day since the main B4040 was closed after a wall collapsed on April 8 one or two motorists have been towed out, having either failed to notice or ignored warning signs. Some farmers have been charging £25 to give a tow with tractors. "
"Drivers following satellite navigation systems through a village called Crackpot have been directed along a track at the edge of a 100ft cliff.
Cars, minibuses and trucks have taken the steep, twisty road from Swaledale to Wensleydale in North Yorkshire.
When vehicles become stuck, drivers are reversing perilously close to the cliff edge, say worried locals. "
-- Aggressive sweeping momentarily melts the ice, which lessens friction, thereby lessening the deceleration of the rock, while straightening the trajectory of the rock.
