A man who had to pay £300 to fix his car sent the bill to his council after finding out some of the damage was probably caused by potholes.

Al Mitchell slammed Plymouth City Council for ‘ignoring’ his pleas to fix the streets near his home, which he says are riddled with holes.

Eventually Al got so fed up, he sent them the bill for restoring his car.


Photos of the surface of the road show several potholes, some that appear to have been patched up previously. The road appears loose, and there is damage to the road markings and lines on the street.



https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/25/driver-sick-of-potholes-sends-council-300-bill-to-fix-his-car-14643725/

A recent test showed Al’s car had significant damage to the ball joint of the suspension arms.

He told Plymouth Live: ‘I asked the manager down there for the workshop, and he said it had likely been caused by driving over potholes regularly.

‘It’s absolutely ridiculous, we’ve been on to them for the past four years about it.

We’ve filled in about five forms, rung them a number of times, and all we get is “oh the road’s fine”.

‘We sent them (the council) the MOT bill in the last complaint but we haven’t had anything back from them yet. I highlighted on the bill the repairs I’d been told were likely caused by the potholes.

It all just falls on deaf ears.

‘Over four years we’ve been on to them about it, and they’ve partially filled some in once, and then now they’re even worse.

‘It needs the whole stretch redoing, especially with the amount of traffic that comes down here now. It’s just constant.’

https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/25/driver-sick-of-potholes-sends-council-300-bill-to-fix-his-car-14643725/

This one naim be their village or country side

Wow!

Nice one but for naija......
our government can't even provide 24/7 electricity talkless of pothole free road.

if only we could send such bills to our local government councillor due to our typically worse roads here, we would have bankrupted the government with our complaints siiiince because if this man is asking for that amount for that little rough road then imagine how big our own bills would be looking like.

aba residents would relate

Someone please help with the picture of that dark guy that's trying not to burst.

No be juju be that?

Is this suppose to be a joke?
That small gallop is what he called pothole?

He should visit Nigeria and see the canals we call pothole

Nigerian roads are the reason why cars don't last in dis country. They are the reasons why Honda bow joints will always pull and why Toyota shocks will always eventually go bad. If Nigerian roads are as bad as d one dis guy considers as potholes, Nigerians would celebrate having gud roads

That’s a clime where rules are actually rules
A country where things actually work
A place where tax payers knows their God given right

richmond500:
That smooth road is pothole?
He should visit Nigeria, we drive through canals

Tell him to drive from nyanya to auta balefi make him come see potholes

If dis is what is called pothole, then we do not have potholes in Nigeria. Our bad roads can comfortably qualify for wormholes, drumholes and dirt roads

Is that even pothole? He should come to Nigeria and see things.

Interesting

Saner Clime..
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A Place where citizens can Fight the Government through the courts, and they will still win.

Lol, he called that small stuff a pothole.

It's surprising that some people would mock this man!

Truth be told, if we had inculcated an habit like this, no matter how small, we wouldn't have gotten to where we are today...

Some areas have not seen light for years... It's normal for them to buy fuel, but these areas have a local government chairman who does not reside in that LGA. Nonsense!!!


I'd rather want to sue the Government for bad roads than seeing the mechanic unnecessarily, or reading about accidents on Nairaland.


I'd rather want to sue the Government for not having water than installing bore hole/well water with my money.


I'd rather want to sue the Government for not enjoying my night rest because of power supply than run the generator and disturb the neighbors. Mosquitoes grow wings when there's no light so I have to also treat Malaria.


I'd rather want to sue the Government for not having a good healthcare system, than travel abroad for surgery.

And on, and on, and on...

Lalasticlala, justwise, won't you rather sue the Government?

He's got it to be kidding me.



You dare not try it here 9ja

Dujardin:
Someone please help with the picture of that dark guy that's trying not to burst.

that picture is painful o. I dropped the pic quoting a comment of an admin in one group chat app...the admin then blocked comments in the group, for 2 weeks now its still blocked. if u know how to use that pic u fit make person cry lol

Who’s going to pay me for the damages the pothole in the middle of the man’s head caused my eyes?

In Nigeria, it's even the government that will collect money from the person through highway tax collectors (police, soldiers etc.)

With these, I can confidently say we have Man-Hole in naija

XXXXTENTACION:
Nice one but for Naija......
our government can't even provide 24/7 electricity talkless of pothole-free road.

Because you pay taxes give you right bro. But if you don't pay taxes don't t bother telling us poor government when you haven't played your role as a citizen that also pays his taxes. The man pays his tax reason why he got the liver to sue.

Na porthole be this? Abeg this people dey enjoy. Where for naija na road dey our porthole no be porthole even dey our road. I just dey see more reason to japa my guys. Make my money complete make I enter Spain abeg.

Nah potholes be this.........


Send this man to Lagos state, make hin receive lessons from potholes.........

na this small hole he De call "deadly pothole".

Look at that sexy road this man is calling pothole? Even our banana island road no fine like this

Chai we don too suffer for this country

Hmmm, when our country go mk sense?

I clicked on the thread expecting to see the Nigerian version of a pothole, but behold, what I saw was a microscopic and insignificant depression on the kota.

If na so, there will be no money in Nigeria