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Auto Car
3 days ago
- Automotive
- Auto Car
Going off-grid with the £190k 'Bentley of caravans'
The information I'm sent before I collect the Bruder EXP-7 (I feel a little strange calling it a caravan, but we'll come back to that) contains some surprises. There's no bedding or kitchenware inside, I'm told, but there is a washer-dryer. Now, I went caravanning when I was a kid, and I can still remember the noise of the pump when we had to pedal a lever repeatedly to draw water to the tap. People with water containers that were round barrels so they could be rolled rather than carried across the campsite were positively flash gits. But now I'm going to try a caravan with a washing machine? Swoon. I'm sure things have moved on a bit in the conventional caravan world, but even by today's standards the Bruder EXP-7 is a bit special. It's from an Australian company founded by two brothers – hence the Bruder logo with kangaroos as umlauts – who grew up camping and being driven around the outback, and who kind of haven't stopped. They would go to places that would quickly leave a conventional caravan looking like it had been used in one of those novelty banger races, so what they make, it says here, are described as 'luxury off-road expedition trailers'. Sometimes companies over-egg a description, but maybe not this lot, I think, as I have a nose around the EXP-7 outside Bentley's Crewe factory. There's no official tie-in with Bentley, by the way. The people there just thought the Bruder was quite the thing, and I think they're keen to remind people that the Bentayga is a properly accomplished tow car and off-roader. There is a perception sometimes that luxury is about five-star hotels and restaurants you can't get into. I'm not sure that's the only case: luxury, for me, is naffing off from all of that, being in a wide open space, on your own terms, in your own time, where the office can't find you and you can't get social media fomo because there's no phone reception.
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Yahoo
No bathroom for students who skip Pledge of Allegiance has May River teacher in hot water
A May River High School math teacher accused of refusing to let students use the bathroom unless they participate in the Pledge of Allegiance is believed to have been put on leave by the Beaufort County School district. In a 40-second video that has been posted multiple times on social media, a student can be heard pleading to be allowed to go to the bathroom, but the teacher refuses. A student can then be heard asking, 'So if we don't stand for the pledge, we can't use the restroom?' The teacher responds, 'Right.' When the student again pleads she needs to go to the restroom, the teacher says, 'Then stand for the pledge.' Social media users identify the teacher in the video as Lawrence Scandone, who is listed as a math teacher in the high school's directory. Multiple sources granted anonymity also confirmed to The Island Packet that Scandone is the teacher in the video. Candace Bruder, the school district's communications offer, confirmed that Scandone has been placed on administrative leave but would not confirm Scandone was the teacher in question or address why he is on leave. Calls made to a number believed to be Scandone's were not immediately returned Monday. Bruder said that the district cannot comment on personnel matters, but bathroom policy complaint is being addressed. A teacher placed on administrative leave is removed from campus while an investigation is conducted, Bruder confirmed. Dr. Chad Cox, the executive director of schools with the school district, said that students use an electronic hall pass system. Students are able to use their school-issued devices to complete a request to a teacher, and teachers, from their own device, would have to approve the request with a code. Typically, kids verbally ask a teacher before submitting the online request, he said, but they do not have to. There are not limits on the number of times a student can use the bathroom, he said. Bruder confirmed that each school within the district does the Pledge of Allegiance. According to the district's policy manual, 'Any person not wishing to recite or otherwise participate in the Pledge of Allegiance shall be exempt from recitation and/or participation and shall not be penalized for failing to participate in a manner which does not materially infringe upon the rights of others or disrupt school activities.' A student posted the video on Tuesday, April 1. It collected more than 187,000 views and 33,000 likes in the following six days. The video can be found on TikTok.
