Re: Down in Putney this morning...

Dave Larrington wrote:
In article <440372BF.F0337514@xxxxxxxxxxx>, John B
(nothing@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

Saw something similar in Andover once.
difference was it it was a driver in a car :-(

Must have been one of those car-thief cyclists. I was surprised to
see not one but two car-thief cyclists[1] actually filling the tanks
of the cars they'd stolen the other day. Surely it would be quicker,
cheaper and easier just to steal another car?

1 - I could tell they were cyclists because, although it was dark,
both left the filling station without any lights on

I had an encounter with a car thief cyclist the other day. Coming up behind her in my own stolen car in heavy traffic on the M6, I noticed she had no lights on, so flashed her several times. After a mile or so and a junction or two, the lanes had rearranged so she was behind me, so I flashed my foglights on and off at her to remind her of her mishap.

20 miles further south, I came off the motorway at my home junction, and pulled in to fill up my car. To my surprise, the lightless driver pulled in after me, stopped at a different row of pumps, got out, noticed she had no lights on, and asked the driver in the utterly dissimilar car to mine stopped in front of her if that was what she (the 3rd party) driver had been flashing her about. Boggle.
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Ambrose

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