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Ellegeebee · 13/05/2023 14:57

I was dropping my 7 year old daughter off at a Beaver’s event this morning, all really well organised, volunteers marshalling the field car park etc, all radio’d up etc. On the way back to the field car park we were advised there had been an RTC at the exit so there would be a delay in us being able to leave. Main response from everyone was “hope no is injured” etc. Everyone in cars lining up but not moving at all, engines off, just having to wait it out; the Marshalls were great and said we could go to the Scout building for a cuppa if we wanted as no one able to leave, possibly for some time. So picture the scene- a field of cars, in a queue, full of families and babies and people needing to get to places, but we all waited patiently, until a man in a jag drives down the middle of the field and starts shouting at the marshalls that he needs to be let out. He actually nudged his car at the volunteer who put his hands up and assertively told him to stop and that if he needed to leave he would have to take it up with the policers on scene at the top of the drive. Does angry jag man get out of his car? No. His wife gets out and goes up the drive. By now all three emergency services are at the scene and we’re just hoping that no one is seriously injured. Angry jag man’s wife comes back and gets back in the the car, no movement. He still continues to pointlessly rev his engine and try to nudge his car forward, whilst smoking a cigarette and blowing it in the direction of the Marshall. About 45 mins later it was clear that there would be movement, we all started our engines and angry jag man tried to set off before anyone else, the Marshalls stopped him and said he would have to wait and they started letting the orderly formed queue out and up the driveway, he carried on trying to force himself at the Marshalls aggressively, as I got to the front of the queue he tried again to get out in front, I wound my window down and said, “What makes you so more important that anyone else waiting here?! Nothing! You are no more important than anyone else.” He started to shout something at me so I wound my window up and drove off, it was a rhetorical question, I didn’t care about his answer and I didn’t need one. I could then hear a car horn over and over again. My friend phoned me 20 minutes later to say that she was a few cars behind me and in a second queue, she said she loved that I spoke up and said what everyone else was thinking, she then said that after I drove off he kept on sounding his horn and shouting, he didn’t see that there was a police officer still at the scene. The police officer approached him and told him to stop, he refused, he was then told that he would end up being arrested if he didn’t stop as he was causing harassment at the scene of an accident, angry jag man carried on shouting. My friend says she watched for as long as she could but then was able to drive off herself, she says the Marshalls let every single car out that was in the orderly queue and would let the jag leave, plus he was taken up arguing with the police officer. She doesn’t know if he was arrested or not (probably not) but the fact that he got out no sooner than he wanted, didn’t get to jump the queue and if anything was held back, is karma indeed. (Please excuse any typos, writing from my phone)

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JaneJeffer · 13/05/2023 14:59

That's not instant karma. That is long winded karma.

MargaretThursday · 13/05/2023 15:01

I've never heard words shouted from a car window clearly enough unless I'm within a couple of yards of the car. Definitely not if I have my engine going and am inside my car.
He must have hearing like a bat.

Ellegeebee · 13/05/2023 15:04

Yes, long winded sorry, should have probably put a warning on. And yes, our cars were right next to each other, he could hear me clearly!

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