Dulwich Roads: engage brain before posting..

[Rockets]

Dulwich Roads have been up to it again, posting (deliberately?) misleading post to suit their agenda which actually led police to announce there was no fatality.

"A Met Police spokesperson: “One male has gone to hospital for treatment; we await confirmation on his condition but no fatalities."

 

Whomever is behind this account really needs to engage brain before posting, this is outside a school and would terrify any parent that may have seen this. They circulated incorrect and erroneous facts and did nothing to correct it - disgusting.

It's almost as if they are wishing for a far more tragic outcome to suit their narrative.

 

 

 

 

[first mate]

Pretty gross example of end justifies the means. 

 

[malumbu]

I see no problem in alerting the masses to serious accidents.  Almost 30,000 a year are killed or seriously injured each year on our roads, a number that has plateaued in recent years.  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-annual-report-2022/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-annual-report-2022

I'm thankful that 20mph has been introduced throughout Southwark and neighbouring boroughs,

[snowy]

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[Penguin68]

1 hour ago, malumbu said:

I see no problem in alerting the masses to serious accidents

I see every problem in 'alerting' the public to an event that's not, as described, taken place. Announcing a fatal accident (that wasn't) outside a school is like shouting 'fire' when there isn't one, in a crowded disco. It causes wholly unnecessary fear and distress. 

[Raeburn]

Dulwich Roads literally clarify/correct under their post on the 11th - but you’ve just posted this single one here Rockets

…are you deliberately posting out-of-context to mislead people reading on here?

[Rockets]

What this "correction"....which is correcting the location....?

 

The only person being misleading is whomever is behind the Dulwich Roads account....

Their first post is clearly designed to imply someone died which then forced the police to issue a statement that there were no fatalities - probably because of the understandable concern from parents with pupils at the school.

Utterly, utterly irresponsible and quite sickening from Dulwich Roads. But they have previous as they never bother to find out the facts - just excitedly post anything and everything to try to make their point.

 

 

Edited September 14 by Rockets

[Raeburn]

‘They circulated incorrect and erroneous facts and did nothing to correct it - disgusting.‘

But they did correct it? Immediately.
 

You chose to ignore this when you opened this thread on EDF three days later. You posted without context, to deliberately paint them in a bad light, and are now doubling down on a Twitter post …rather than highlight the very real problem of dangerous roads and drivers.

 

I’ve pointed out before, misleading, disingenuous posting does nothing to help any reasonable discussion or debate about these topics.

[Rockets]

Nonsense. They corrected the location. Nothing in that post does anything to address the rumour they created that someone died.

Any rational person would have removed the first post alluding to someone being killed.

But they didn't, why? They chose to leave it up.

[Raeburn]

Ok

[Rockets]

Glad you agree. Common sense has prevailed...just a shame Dulwich Roads seems to be lacking in the commonsense department.

 

[Raeburn]

Lol

[malumbu]

They highlight bad/selfish motoring.  How on earth can anyone, apart from a few hard core motorists, take exception?  Well done to them.  Happy to forgive them if occasionally over zealous.  If I had a helmet can would have loved to have captured the driver doing 70 last Sunday evening on Brenchley overtaking a dozen slow  motorists.  Fortunately I could seek refuge on the pavement.  Funnily enough I don't look at X very often but thanks to the link to DR.

[Rockets]

Dulwich Roads' posts are becoming more and more extreme and irrational.

Their call for pupils to be expelled from schools if their parents park badly is extreme, slighlty bizarre and a weird type of justice. Such a great idea ruining a child's education and future prospects because their parents parked badly.....but this probably speaks volumes about the person posting this nonsense.

 

 

 

Edited September 14 by Rockets

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

If you want to argue with someone on Twitter, sign up for an account and argue with them on there. Bad tempered personalised arguments seem to cover 90% of Twitter. (The other 10% is fascist memes).

[snowy]

1 hour ago, Rockets said:

Dulwich Roads' posts are becoming more and more extreme and irrational.

Their call for pupils to be expelled from schools if their parents park badly is extreme, slighlty bizarre and a weird type of justice. Such a great idea ruining a child's education and future prospects because their parents parked badly.....but this probably speaks volumes about the person posting this nonsense.

 

 

 

But you're reducing parents people regularly verbally abusing other parents and staff and throwing No Parking signs into a hedge to 'parking badly' to suit your Partidge-isms. 
 

The head of Dulwich Prep has written to parents to say that this behavior is unacceptable and breaks their Parent Code. I imagine a serious transgression of that code means they no longer want your business. Assaulting staff is probably on that list. 

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

1 hour ago, Rockets said:

Dulwich Roads' ... call for pupils to be expelled from schools if their parents park badly is extreme, slighlty bizarre and a weird type of justice.

Incidentally, inspired by the OP to go and actually read the Dulwich Roads account, I actually found the Tweet that @Rockets  seems to be talking about. If I can get the formatting right, it is here: 

The tweet contains a letter from Dulwich Prep School to parents describing a recent incident in which a parent parked their car across an entrance, moved a school sign, argued with a neighbour and staff, threw a sign into a hedge, and generally acted like an aggro tit. DPS goes on to describe other "unacceptable behaviour" that goes against the school's values ethos like swearing and arguing in front of kids.

People can decide for themselves whether that is "call[ing] for pupils to be expelled from schools if their parents park badly"...

It is absolutely revolting that highly trained teaching staff are wasting time addressing the shitty behaviour of a few parents. Not the kids - the bloody parents!

[Rockets]

Yup so let's expel the kids...that'll learn them!

Head: "You may be an exemplary student but I am afraid you are being expelled"

 

Student: "Why?"

 

Head: "Because your parent parks badly and is an angry idiot and Dulwich Roads thinks it's a good idea and they used two exclamation marks in their tweet because they are so angry about it".

 

 

Edited September 14 by Rockets

[malumbu]

Why are you condoning such dreadful behaviour, particularly from a parent who can afford to send their child to an expensive and prestigious private school?

[Rockets]

Sorry, can you point out where I condone the behaviour? You might struggle because I don't and I wouldn't. You're trying to deflect and distract by making things up - again!

And what point are you (struggling) to make about a parent who can afford to send their children to that school....you get idiots across the whole spectrum of people. Or are you suggesting such behaviour is only expected of less wealthy people - because that is a prejudiced trope path you probably don't want to venture too far down?

 

 

Edited September 16 by Rockets

[Dulwich Roads]

We've only recently been directed to this thread and forum by a twitter follower. Oh my!  It is quite remarkable how our Twitter/X account highlighting Road Safety issues in the area, seems to live rent free in the head of Rockets.

In some ways that is a good measure of success, although in your case (looking at your endless posts on this forum) you seem to have failed to pick up on any genuine concerns about road safety in the Dulwich area.  We don't really have the patience to wade through 18 pages (!!) of back and forth about cyclists, but maybe amidst all the outrage at cyclists there could be some valid points tucked away? But it is truly bizarre that you have ended up in a position where you have an obsession about cyclists, thinking that these are the greatest road safety concern in Dulwich? Is it in fact you who needs to engage your brain before posting? We look forward to seeing you over on x.com if you want to comment on our posts over there. 

[Rockets]

Dulwich Roads - please engage brain before posting - put your ideological obsession to one side and think about how your posts might be interpreted. 

Your offending post (where you used the words horrific and tragic) as you retweeted a post where someone said there had been an accident outside a school and there was a person under covers (which I see has now been removed) is utterly reprehensible and caused undue concern amongst the parents of pupils at Oakfield School.

The police had to issue a statement to confirm there were no fatalities because of your post such was the level of panic and concern it created. Is that what you consider a good measure of success?

Try harder in future to engage in fact-based rather than narrative-based posts and don't be so quick on the trigger finger before establishing what actually happened and any consequences.

 

 

[Dulwich Roads]

I think you need to consult the dictionary on the definition of "tragic" - it is not synonymous with "fatality". It remains a horrific and tragic crash and the tweet remains.

Anyone with children at Oakfield School, and every other school in the area, will have concerns every single day about the danger on the roads around their school. Meanwhile you can continue with your outrage at our twitter account for highlighting these dangers. And you can continue with your unhealthy obsession with cycling, an obsession that will do nothing to improve road safety in the area. Or have you found any of your posts where you raise genuine road safety concerns? We're waiting...  

 

[Rockets]

Doubling down - interesting approach and speaks volumes.

Tragic when retweeting a tweet that references a person under covers = death. You clearly thought someone had died and couldn't wait to tweet about it.

You are the one responsible for creating the impression that someone had been killed outside a school. You created so much distress that the police had to put out a statement confirming no fatalities. Are you proud of that?

Does it not tell you something that the person who tweeted the "person under covers" has now deleted it?

You need to be more responsible and think of how your posts might be read. Maybe find yourself someone who can take a step back and help you review your posts for you to ensure you don't do that again - get a fact checker!

[Earl Aelfheah]

Dulwich Roads hasn't 'spread misinformation'. They're highlighting dangerous road behaviour. It's absolutely ridiculous, although sadly not surprising that @Rockets would take exception to this.  

Edited October 10 by Earl Aelfheah