[Closed] Not trail sabotage...

Nimbyism knows no bounds...

Wait, what?

She found a screw in her tyre, the rest is pure speculation that the local newspaper has printed!

This sort of shitty journalism is definitely on the rise, they could at least have got a reported down there to plant and photograph some evidence

While I fully believe there are plenty of dicks out there that would do things like this, the article suggests the nails have been 'glued' to the road pointing upwards.  With that kind of prep involved, aren't they just as likely to get someone who actually lives on the road?  I guess we are not talking about geniuses here.

Tbh, the more likely story is that Bob the builder dropped some screws. I mean, come on, she's added two and two, and come up with six  thousand and something.

To be fair I had a screw in my tire and had driven past a school... Which where there's blame there's a claim lawyer do I speak to.

I saw the headline and thought there may actually be a shred of proof (like pictures of glued in nails, evidence of glue on the road, evidence of glue on the nail she found etc etc etc). But no. Just a woman with a punctured car tyre.

Sounds like a big chunk of the story is missing. If her first assumption upon getting a puncture is that those bastards on the empty street where I park have done this suggests there has either been previous confrontations or this is a way she might react to people if she lived there.

some screws found on the ground does not equal a vendetta

Hm. I only skimmed and I’d understood that there were screws glued upright, too.

If it really is just that she’s had a flat tyre then apologies for post!  OTOH, I think it said the old bill had got involved so presumably they think there might be something afoot?

Sounds like a big chunk of the story is missing. If her first assumption upon getting a puncture is that those bastards on the empty street where I park have done this suggests there has either been previous confrontations or this is a way she might react to people if she lived there.

^This.

To me, that’s a sad indictment of the standards to which Grauniad journalism has fallen. Given that it’s trending as one of the most widely read stories on their website, it may not say much more about their readership. One for the angry people in local newspaper list.

Police interest looks to be limited to “call us if you’ve had the same issue there”, so hardly one for Jack Regan and George Carter.

Didn't check the link, & presumed it was coming from some local paper, not a national paper.

“One of the mums was told that if she didn’t stop parking there, she was going to find nails in her tyres,” she added.

She said about four or five people have been affected.

So there's a previous threat, and a claim that multiple people have been affected, so I don't think the speculation is that wild.

Still not sure what it's doing in a national "paper".

Still not sure what it’s doing in a national “paper”.

No paper and no "nation". Internets innit. Have you seen the Independent (sic) online version?

"You'll never believe what happened to this once-respected broadsheet next".

"What online newspapers don't want you to know about their level of desperation."

etc.

There was a video on FB yesterday of a guy who had thrown a couple of handfuls of drawing pins into the path of some road cyclists, what knobs

While I fully believe there are plenty of dicks out there that would do things like this, the article suggests the nails have been ‘glued’ to the road pointing upwards.  With that kind of prep involved, aren’t they just as likely to get someone who actually lives on the road?  I guess we are not talking about geniuses here.

I have a neighbour who gets most upset about parking arrangements.  She doesn't own a car.

Whilst not attempting to justify the actions of the unknown individual, I can understand their frustration. Seeing the carnage and general ****tishness that goes on at schooltime from those that drive their kids to school, its hard not to at least empathise with the person gluing the screws.

We live right next to a school, but its a minutes walk away, so most of the nonsense happens round the corner nearer the school.

Must have been very strong glue. I tried to put a screw into a tyre years ago before I went to get them changed, took a lot of force to get a self tapping screw through the belt and it didn’t noticeably loose pressure in an hour.

The fitter then told me that they were told on a course that it happens when you drive over it flat and it catches in a sipe or groove. Then when you manoeuvre/ stop and reverse etc...it rotates and the weight of the car at low speed forces it through. Don’t know if it is true but it seems plausible.

I think you would be unlucky for it to happen as you were driving along unless it was a big screw caught in a crack with the tip showing or in a piece of wood etc.... I think it would just bend otherwise.

Any tyre engineers on stw?

edit

I think in this case <span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">that if the screw was standing up the car would hit the screw at an angle and the weight difference at an angle would push the screw over. Whereas rotated in the tread it would push into the tyre straight relative to the direction of travel and the car’s weight would force the screw into the tyre</span>

its hard not to at least empathise with the person gluing the screws.

I think anyone who empathises with that should seek professional help.