Not drunk driving, but DRINKING and DRIVING at the same time!

Unbe effing lievable!

My mother in law has just been involved in an accident! She was sat in her parked car waiting for my sister in law to get in, when a van appeared, swerving over the road and crashing into MIL's parked car. Totally written off the car. That's just the tip of the iceberg!

They then found out that the driver was drunk, but also was drinking from a can of Lager whilst driving! He has been arrested - obviously! But effing disgusting......

Bloody polish! (yes, that's what he is). A mid 30 year old polish chap is in a police station as we speak somewhere in deepest darkest Zummerzet!

Shocked!!!

Oh and apparently, he offered to pay my MIL off so that she didn't call the police!

Thank the stars your MIL was ok (I presume she is) and that your SIL wasn't walloped in the process.

SIL is fuming! as you can probably expect. MIL is very shaken up.

But all are ok as it could have been so so much worse

We get a lot of drink drivers with open cans of beer in the car
The eastern european men do seem to favour a spot of drink driving around my way. Hate to think what it's like on the continent if that is the norm!

Just because a few Poles do it doesn't make it the norm on the continent.

Very racist, all the Polish I know are very hardworking and put the English to shame.
More likely to be English youths drinking and driving than the Polish.

and the welsh all shag sheep (sorry Murf)

Isn't racial stereotyping fun?

And the Welsh never got invaded and conquered by the

Romans
Normans (French)
Saxons (Germans)
Vikings (Danish)

unlike the English

I never knew poland was the whole of eastern europe
I also clarified that i was talking about where i work.
The attitude to drinking in different cultures is a different discussion entirely, but seems to play a certain part in this topic

You certainly don't expect it when you're parked must have frightened the life out of her. Is this chewie's wife? Hope everyone's ok and the van driver's got insurance.

No wilbert it's my fiances mother and sister.

Achilles im not being racist, i was stating a fact that the driver IS polish.

I knew someone would accuse me of playing the race card.

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Did you steal that line from someone else?

(Ok thanks Rich)

Ha...you're funny.

Although still a vassal of the English queen.

Your castles are still relics of subjugation by us English

...and you shag sheep

Hope your MIL is alright btw Rich.

and yes. Many of our Polish friends like a drink.

Doesn't make them bad people though.

Ok.
So a few eastern europeans doing it about the area you work doesn't make it the norm on the continent.
Most countries in Europe have strict drink drive rules and that includes Eastern Europe. That said, when I lived in Moscow it was not unusual to see taxi drivers drinking vodka in the taxi ranks while waiting for fares.

Try not saying 'bloody polish'. It does have the unfortunate effect of making it sound like a bit of a generalisation. Just sayin'

The English Queen!!!!
Well English if you can say married to a Greek and descended from Germans

what's the insurance situation?

Insurance - Rich, phone the station now for an incient number

Sted's got a point - you haven't even had to be invaded, yet you are still England's bitch. That's got to hurt the psyche.

Give me a saw, and I'd start cutting Wales free to float away.

The fact that you weren't even considered to be worth invading says so much.

@ Dr B, yes fair point.

@Surprised and Wilbert. I believe the insurance stuff is all fine. Police have been contacted etc. The "mrs'" parents are quite switched on to all of this sort of stuff and things are in hand. It would appear they have some clause in their policy (Direct Line) which covers them against uninsured drivers.

The fact that the guy was literally begging them not to call the police screams that he was hiding something, be it driving whilst disqualified, or no insurance or whatever.

All appears to be well regards MIL's injuries, or lack of them. All will become clearer tomorrow I guess.

Thanks for the concern that's been shown.

Like they've done to manx?

No worries Rich, glad everyone's covered and safe, effin nightmare though and I amsorry but sure it will rumble on and on with insurance....

Exactly.

However, I'm a Scouser. I live here. It's a form of assimilation.

As a result, they don't shag sheep anymore......back to you Achiles.

Richt claims I'm a troll

yet he is the one generalizing and being RACIST to the Polish.

Go figure.

Proof if any that Richt is a TROLL

you really are a tit aren't you?

Richt never generalised, he commented on one person, the driver, who was indeed Polish. YOU started the sweeping Generalisation.

Barry - so "Bloody polish" is not generalising is it?

the nicest thing anyone has ever said about you on here and you take offense