Fatal crash leads to friends clash

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2242139/M1-Crash-The-140mph-death-race-killed-two.html

A car crash between two BMW cars on the M1 has left two people dead and six injured last Monday morning. Shortly after the fatal accident, a third BMW car arrived at the scene. A fight then broke out between the occupants of that car and the survivors of the crash.

Witnesses state that the cars involved in the accident were driving at 140 miles per hour in bad weather conditions, and they appeared to be racing. The crash damaged both cars badly, and firefighters spent hours cutting free some of the passengers. The third car had allegedly fallen back with the others because it needed to stop at a service station. All occupants were friends, and that would have been what said off the fight. Witnesses say the occupants of the third car had exclaimed: “What have you done? You have killed them!”

The crash was cause for great delay on the M1 since five junctions had to be closed down for the road to be cleared. It also delayed a team of engineers who were on their way to fix a burst waterway in west London, which created a big traffic snarl in that area as well.

A 25 year old driver was arrested for dangerous driving, but is now out on police bail.

So what is it about BMW cars that makes some people think they are invincible? Should we blame James Bond for that? The reality is that when you’re taking such chances by driving dangerously in circumstances like rain, the chances of an accident happening are very big. And with speeds like that, the outcome is inevitably grim. I’m sure that nobody wanted any of their friends to get killed, but breaking out into a fight over who was the cause of the accident is just insane. Why wouldn’t they try to help their friends first? Or is there some underlying secret to this crash that the news article doesn’t tell us about? I feel that the reaction of the friends who arrived later is very misplaced, but at least I hope that this is a lesson for all of them, and all the people who read this and think that racing cars is fun. As the old saying goes, it’s always funny until someone gets hurt.

It's official: miracles do not exist!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20600442

Chancellor George Osborn will make it clear to British MP’s that there will be no ‘miracle cure’ for Britains economic problems. He will make that statement in his autumn address to parliament. He stresses that it will take a lot of hard work to recover and says that nobody should shun the difficult decisions ahead. Labour party is criticizing the current course of the government. Party leader Ed Milliband has said that you ‘don’t plow on regardless,’ when it is obvious that the current administration is failing to tackle the problems of the budget deficit. However Chancellor Osborn is certain that with new policy, it will become possible for Britain to win the ‘global race’. He is sure that the new policy will have a knock-on effect in other parts of the country like Scotland and Northern Ireland. There will be budget reductions, but sources say that education and public health will be spared from this.

The crisis is in the news daily and there doesn’t seem to be a single European nation that has escaped the turmoil. Every country is looking for a way out, and there will always be those parties that will find fault with the current leadersahip and point out that they’re handling this the wrong way. Well I feel that when a plan is implemented to save the economy, there should be allowed some time for it to take effect. The public has a very ‘we want change and we want it NOW’ sort of mindset, which to my opinion doesn’t work. I certainly hope that enough things have already been set in motion that will allow the economy to regain its footing, not only in Britain but the entirety of Europe. Of course there is no miracle cure! It takes a long wind, grit and determination!

Paying off the patsy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20509003

George Entwistle, former director general of the BBC, has received a 450.000 pound payoff by the board of executives for resigning. Mister Entwistle is held responsible for a row over an episode of the program ‘news night’, where a former MP was being wrongly accused of child abuse. Though he was not forced to resign, nobody on the board was supporting him anymore. Lord Patten, chairman of the board, said they had no choice than to pay off Mister Entwistle, whom he considers to be a decent man. Entwistle himself had demanded a higher sum, but after consulting with his lawyers the amount of 450.000 pounds was settled.

The cause of the row was a documentary that was shot some time before, but was never aired. It concerned an investigation on possible child abuse by former BBC presenter Jimmy Saville (deceased). However, footage from that documentary came available and led to the wrongful accusations of MP Lord McAlpine. The BBC was forced to pay 185.000 pounds in reparations due to “shoddy journalism”, as Lord Patten called it. He feels he is obliged to repair the damage that the repair the damage done to the reputation of the BBC.

So apparently you can demand a large sum of money if you’ve always done your job correctly but some people below you have done such a bad job that your employer looks bad? Lord Patten states that he did not have a choice than to pay Entwistle off, but it seems to me that Patten is defending the BBC by blaming Entwistle for the mistakes off his subordinates. Though Patten denies it, Entwistle certainly comes across as a patsy. The board of directors desperately wants to BBC to save face, and if someone has to go down for it, they attempt to cause as little ruckus as possible. Apparently they’ve learned enough from the Rupert Murdoch scandals that the BBC will do whatever it takes to keep their hands clean.

Uncool!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ice-cream-wars-video-mr-1460043

An argument over territory has caused ice cream vendor Mr Ramzan (a.k.a. Mr Yummy) to attack the van of rival vendor Mr. Mulla (a.k.a. Mr. Whippy,) with a tyre iron. Both vendors were parked in the same street in Blackburn, when Mr. Ramzan got out of his van and hit the van of Mr. Mulla repeatedly. Mr. Mulla suffered minor injuries on his arm and etye, and in an attempt to escape the attack, crashed his van into that of Mr. Ramzan. The attack was filmed by a passerby and placed on Youtube. So far the clip has over a million hits.

Even though it seems obvious from the Youtube clip what has passed, Mr. Ramzan denies the attack. He did admit to possessing an ‘offensive weapon.’  He was found guilty for assault and will be sentenced in December.

Wow, for ice cream vendors, that’s just not cool. I understand that there can be same conflicts about who works what street, but this never a way to deal with that. Of course, the excerpt only tells about the ‘final conflict’. At least we can hope it’s the final one. We don’t know what took place beforehand. Maybe the two gentlemen had already sat down to talk a long time ago. Maybe Mr. Whippy has done something bad to Mr. Yummy prior to this attack, say sabotage his freezer so he has no sno-cones to sell. Whatever the case, this insane attack probably didn’t come out of the blue, but taking a tyre iron to settle any argument is just wrong.