Footballer Involved in Car Accident

Stephen Fry has left Twitter.

He got a load of grief after making a joke at a friend's expense at the BAFTAs.

He'll probably be back.

I don't tweet.

I've got nothing against Twitter, I just don't use it.  So I don't know how easy it would be to send a picture of an Scoupe by accident from my pocket.

Not that anyone would be that bothered about a picture of an old Hyundai.  I have accidentally 'phoned my wife a couple of times from my pocket. But only because by phone allows me to by-pass the screen lock with calls to my ICE contact.

But I've certainly never sent her a picture of a car.

Now, imagine if I were a famous Premier League footballer.  And I had just played in a game - as a defender - for the team languishing at the foot of the table.  And in that game, we'd been stuffed 6-0.  At home.

Then it probably wouldn't go down too well to tweet a picture of a Mercedes S coupe. (OK S-Class Coupé but near enough)

 

Well that's what Aston Villa player Joleon Lescott managed to do.

Here's his Twitter feed.

In it he apologises for the result and also apologises for accidentally tweeting the photo.

To his credit, he's left the photo there and kept the responses it garnered.

Such as, "Does this car go from 0 to 6 in 90 minutes?"

As part of his apology, he says "I'm not one for tweeting after games whether it's a good, bad or indifferent result..."

I'll mostly give him that although at the start of the Season he gave us, "Honour to have made my home debut (Boyhood dream) just gutted with the result. No time to mope tho with the biggest game of the season ahead." This was just after losing 1-0 to West Brom and then "Only thing that matters in a derby game is the result, glad we came out on top." just after beating Birmingham City.  None since though.

I wonder what Stephen Fry would say if he were still tweeting?

Actually not a lot, after all Villa are favourites to take up one of the three relegations spots.  Which means one less for Fry's team Norwich to end up in.  My own team is down there at the moment too so Joleon,

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

Pilot Error

Actually it's Driver Error - I just happened to find this story whilst flicking through the Virginian Pilot - the prime news source for Norfolk, VA, USA and its environs.

Here's the link.

It tells the story of two young car thieves who chanced upon a Chevrolet Impala sat at the back of a Post Office with the engine running.

The only occupant was an eight-year-old boy.

So they took the car, dropping him off at school on the way.  I suppose as car thieves go, they were either reasonably nice or reasonably inept.  They abandoned the car later on and completely missed the iPhone that had been left in there that was used to trace the car.

The car owner, however, does not seem very nice - to the environment and probably to her employers either - or to her child really.

It seems that every working day she would have to be at work 20 to 30 minutes before he had to be at school, so she parked the car outside the post office where she worked and let him sit inside, with the engine running listening to music.  Then, presumably, she would sneak out of work to drive him to school.  If her employers were not aware of this before, they are now.

The picture with the article is just a boring shot of the Norfolk Post Office:

So here's a picture of my favourite person from Norfolk (albeit the wrong Norfolk for this story) and an Alvis: