{"id":7132,"date":"2011-10-26T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T09:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7132"},"modified":"2011-10-26T09:49:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T09:49:07","slug":"oswaldthistle-danger-driver-to-appear-on-channel-5-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7132","title":{"rendered":"Oswaldtwistle Danger Driver to Appear on Channel 5 Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Channel 5’s new series, Dangerous Drivers’ School<\/a>, is attracting a lot of traffic. Even local rags are using it to get publicity – like The Citizen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It reports that John Thompson from Oswaldtwistle (it’s near Accrington in Lancashire) is to appear on the show. Let me just correct The Citizen for a moment – Thompson has ALREADY <\/strong>appeared on the show, it just hasn’t been aired yet. If he’s learnt anything, he should be demonstrating it now<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Thompson, who is 35, is described as “speed-loving” with a need to “grow up”. It was his wife’s idea – not his – that he appear on the show.<\/p>\n

Thompson boasts:<\/p>\n

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It was the wife\u2019s decision really. I was speeding quite a lot – on the motorway, I would go up to 90 or 110mph…
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…I\u2019m a courier driver and I had gotten into some bad habits… <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mmmmm. You don’t need to appear on a TV show to miraculously learn the law. The article quotes the AA instructor who was involved, but it doesn’t say anything about Thompson having changed his attitude.<\/p>\n

It’s ironic really that that last blog story was about some idiot trying to complete a 70-mile journey in less than an hour, and this one involves a courier driver who has to get things from one place to another as quickly as possible<\/strong> (I see courier vans most of the day so I know exactly what goes on).<\/p>\n

Worth reading the comments at the end of the report, too. Seems like a few people out there have the true measure of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Channel 5’s new series, Dangerous Drivers’ School, is attracting a lot of traffic. Even local rags are using it to get publicity – like The Citizen. It reports that John Thompson from Oswaldtwistle (it’s near Accrington in Lancashire) is to appear on the show. Let me just correct The Citizen for a moment – Thompson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,86,103,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-movie-tv-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}