Journalist doesn't know the difference between a motorhome and a caravan

[MyrtleGuru]

Couple make 160 mile round trip to Yorkshire to collect motorhome then it breaks down on A55

The vehicle was seized by the cops from the pair who were flouting lockdown rules

www.dailypost.co.uk

 

[Puddleduck]

Seized because they had no insurance. Numpties........

 

[hilldweller]

When we bought a little Burstner I named it Harvey because I thought it was an RV.

All part of the learning curve.

 

[nicholsong]

When we bought a little Burstner I named it Harvey because I thought it was an RV.

All part of the learning cuRVe.

The clue was in 'cuRVe' .

 

[nicholsong]

Couple make 160 mile round trip to Yorkshire to collect motorhome then it breaks down on A55

The vehicle was seized by the cops from the pair who were flouting lockdown rules

www.dailypost.co.uk

What a useless report. Apart from using MH and caravan interchangeably.

It is unlikely that the caravan 'broke down'. More likely the towing vehicle.

No insurance? Does a caravan have insurance? Or does the towing vehicle have to have extra insurance to tow?

Can the police seize a caravan if the towing vehicle has no insurance?

All a lod of unexplained copplers[sic]

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[BwB]

What a useless report. Apart from using MH and caravan interchangeably.

It is unlikely that the caravan 'broke down'. More likely the towing vehicle.

No insurance? Does a caravan have insurance? Or does the towing vehicle have to have extra insurance to tow?

Can the police seize a caravan if the towing vehicle has no insurance?

All a lod of unexplained copplers[sic]

It's a motorhome. Checkout the tow-hitch on the back.

 

[DiggerJon]

Leek chomping numpties! They deserve to be caught. The “journalist” should be arrested for dereliction of vocabulary and made to write out 100 times “If it has an engine and steering wheel it is a Motorhome. If it is an engineless pixiebox that needs towing, it is a caravan. Simples????”

 

[Emmit]

Leek chomping numpties! They deserve to be caught. The “journalist” should be arrested for dereliction of vocabulary and made to write out 100 times “If it has an engine and steering wheel it is a Motorhome. If it is an engineless pixiebox that needs towing, it is a caravan. Simples????”

Not so Simples.
Sorry to get my pedant head on but, in these circumstances, "If it has an engine and a steering wheel it's a Motorcaravan."

 

[thebriars]

Leek chomping numpties! They deserve to be caught. The “journalist” should be arrested for dereliction of vocabulary and made to write out 100 times “If it has an engine and steering wheel it is a Motorhome. If it is an engineless pixiebox that needs towing, it is a caravan. Simples????”

Not so simple apparently. Have you considered they may have been using the motorhome to tow the caravan back? Note the towbar on the back of the motorhome (the one with the engine in it).

 

[Carolyn and Kev]

Think its regardless of whether its a caravan or motor home or boat! They should have waited for the permission to go ahead before doing so!

Carolyn

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[pappajohn]

I suppose technically the reporter is correct, it is a motor caravan.
Except in this report he can't make up his mind what it is as he starts off with motorhome then proceeds to call it a caravan.
Trypical reporter incompetence.

 

[JJ]

I suspect it is only we motorhomers who care whether it is called caravan or not.

All the bricks and mortar "Normies" think "caravan" when considering both types of vehicle.

We should get our own back by calling their houses "Statics"...


JJ

 

[Phill D]

Leek chomping numpties.............” should be arrested for dereliction of vocabulary ?”

kettle and Black comes to mind....

 

[MyrtleGuru]

I suspect it is only we motorhomers who care whether it is called caravan or not.

All the bricks and mortar "Normies" think "caravan" when considering both types of vehicle.

We should get our own back by calling their houses "Statics"...


JJ

Maybe it was lost in translation

There doesn't seem to be a Welsh word for motorhome, but there is a:

carafanau modur (motorcaravan as per the DVSA description)

or a simple:

carafanau

 

[Bustup15]

I suppose technically the reporter is correct, it is a motor caravan.
Except in this report he can't make up his mind what it is as he starts off with motorhome then proceeds to call it a caravan.
Trypical reporter incompetence.

arse and elbow spring to mind (the reporter not pappajohn)

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[MyrtleGuru]

kettle and Black comes to mind....

Substitute "pasty" for "leek", eh? Good job you two are not allowed to cross the border right now -- otherwise it could be leeks/pasties at dawn