Danny Jones, 22, filmed himself on a mobile phone slipstreaming an ambulance on an emergency call in Wigan. Then – as is typical of his class of slime – he posted it on various social media sites.
Jones – whose likeness to a potato with a walnut stapled to it is astounding – is seen and heard smugly commentating:
I appear to have found a quicker way to work. Everybody is beeping at me and I don’t care. Are you ready? This is the quickest way to work. Follow this. Pulling over, pulling over, not me lad, I’m there, I’m on it, I’m going past. Ta-ra all.
Jones’ kinship to potatoes seems to extend inwards as well as outwards. The starchy tuber that passes as his head has prompted him to claim that “it looks worse than it is”. He said:
I was keeping my distance, there was a queue of cars behind me. It looks a lot worse than it was. It’s claiming (one thing), but that’s not what it actually is. It’s nowhere near as bad as what the video makes out. I was doing the speed limit and I was maintaining my distance behind the ambulance, it just looks like I’m following it. In reality, there’s nothing wrong with that. I’m keeping my distance and I’m not going through any red lights.
Well, his employers didn’t see things quite the same way. He lost his job – and it serves him bloody well right. The police also appear to be on to the case. Let’s hope that they manage to explain to Dannyboy, via the courts, that waving a mobile phone around while you are driving in traffic is illegal – and having the camera switched on so it can record you doing it is just about the most damning evidence possible. He should lose his licence for a considerable period, and be required to take an extended test – anything that might force some common sense and maturity into that bloated skull of his. Mind you, he is also quoted:
I wasn’t expecting this, it was something that was between a few mates, or it was meant to be.
He said that, knowing he has 24,000 followers on Facebook, where he chose to post the video. What a prat.