Crooks in the Smoke

24 Oct 2005

Got back to Bernies with a bootful of shopping and managed to find a small space to park in. Went to have some lunch in a local pub, came back less than an hour later to find an empty space where the car used to be.
Turns out we had found one of the few spots where they don't relax the parking restrictions on a Sunday.
Cost me Â£200 to see my car again!!! mad

Talk about holding you to ransom.

24 Oct 2005

doh

25 Oct 2005

ooopppppppppppssss
at least u didnt do what i did ....
i didnt relaise people in kentish town was so nice....got a txt message from some friends we are at rio's. Jumped in car and sped down there ( about 1 hrs drive thru london).
Parked up went in to rio's.
Anyway leave rio's come back to car shit someone has broken in to car. Lets say loads of abuse was aimed at little fooking toerags. It wasnt until i had realised i had left the car windows open... redface

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my ipod and gameboy were still in the car lol

MikeC

25 Oct 2005

awwwwwwwwww babes sorry to hear about it
That was one expensive shopping trip babe

25 Oct 2005

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25 Oct 2005

there is a difference between the queens servants,,ie traffic wardens black uniforms and caps with gold braid
and the money grabbing council /privateer revenue enforcement companies
staffed down by mostly africans ,who are jobs worths ,unbending in the rules compassionless and money / incentive motivated
there was a guy last year in spandex cutting clamps off down here with a petrol grinder...hero
park carefully..pay our dues and avoid these legalised thiefs
would really have liked to use the words scumbags ,,though thats unfair to scum

25 Oct 2005

The smoke is not alone, on holiday in Tenerife a couple of weeks ago we parked legitimately in Adeje town centre only to come back after a 4-hour hot and sweaty walk up the hills to find the car gone and portable no parking signs put up!
A taxi (10 euros) ride later we picked the car up from the LA pound luckily for only 39 euros!!!! What a bargain.

25 Oct 2005

The double glazing fitter parked his van down my back lane while he did the job - two or three hours.
!!! wink

8 Nov 2005

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8 Nov 2005

Quote by maidinheaven
Last Thursday I had two double-glazed windows fitted.
Outside my house there are two spaces for disabled badges.
The double glazing fitter parked his van down my back lane while he did the job - two or three hours.
He moved his van to my front door to load the rubbish into it. Broken glass, old wooden frames - you know the sort of thing.
Parking warden gave him a ticket. Deaf to pleas of safety, deaf to "Just a few minutes". "More than my jobsworth".
The fitter told me that the parking ticket would cost him the amount he had earned from fitting my windows.
I can't help thinking that there is now a "parking industry" dedicated just to making money.
Mollie

I am incandescent with rage. Just a few minutes ago there was a council van parked in the same space. Council exempt from the restrictions they impose on the rest of us?
Well, I photographed it and the Chief Executive of my council is going to hear of it. And I'll send a copy to my glazing fitter as well.
I'm submissive - but not all the time
Mollie
I bet your local newspaper would love to see a copy of the photo too!!!

8 Nov 2005

Quote by Bassman
Got back to Bernies with a bootful of shopping and managed to find a small space to park in. Went to have some lunch in a local pub, came back less than an hour later to find an empty space where the car used to be.
Turns out we had found one of the few spots where they don't relax the parking restrictions on a Sunday.
Cost me Â£200 to see my car again!!! Talk about holding you to ransom.

Were the road markings clear and correct.... and was there a sign/plate telling you of the restrictions applying 24/7? If not, then the Road Traffic Act does not apply and you were incorrectly charged, and your car falsely removed.....
equi-princess xxx

8 Nov 2005

Thanks Treasure,
I might just do that. Watch this space.
Mollie

8 Nov 2005

Quote by equi-princess
Were the road markings clear and correct.... and was there a sign/plate telling you of the restrictions applying 24/7? If not, then the Road Traffic Act does not apply and you were incorrectly charged, and your car falsely removed.....
equi-princess xxx

Yep didn't know it myself until the other night, but there are a plethero of rules and regulations surrounding road markings and road signage which all our local authorities are very poor at following. Any signage or road marking that doesn't conform to the strict rules governing them, becomes null and void on that technicality and by all accounts it is very common place for them to be wrong.

10 Nov 2005

Sorry, I put a picture in here that could identify where I live.
I have a photo of the local council ignoring its own traffic restrictions. I will be sending it to my Chief Executive and to my two local councillors.
Mollie

10 Nov 2005

well at least we should not have a parking problem on saturday wink

10 Nov 2005

Ever since parking violations were decriminalised the jobs worth council idiots have taken over. They are on bonus they must be. My latest that I am fighting is for parking betwwen double yellows and resident parking on a single yellow line. It was with a disabled blue badge. the stupid little jobs worth still booked my car wit the blue badge in the window.
To say that the letter of complaint was blunt and to the point was an understatement. I hope that Liverpool coucil refuse to drop the ticket cause I will go to court to get someone retrained! evil

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10 Nov 2005

Quote by Dune
Ever since parking violations were decriminalised the jobs worth council idiots have taken over. They are on bonus they must be. My latest that I am fighting is for parking betwwen double yellows and resident parking on a single yellow line. It was with a disabled blue badge. the stupid little jobs worth still booked my car wit the blue badge in the window.
To say that the letter of complaint was blunt and to the point was an understatement. I hope that Liverpool coucil refuse to drop the ticket cause I will go to court to get someone retrained! :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

Dune
Sounds like things haven't changed in L'pool. Years ago I got ticketed whilst next too a BT van. I explained to the guy that I was doing a similar job but he insisted that it was OK for BT engineers (essential service) to park on double yellows but not me (computer engineer)

:banghead: :banghead:

10 Nov 2005

Quote by wirral_guy
Ever since parking violations were decriminalised the jobs worth council idiots have taken over. They are on bonus they must be. My latest that I am fighting is for parking betwwen double yellows and resident parking on a single yellow line. It was with a disabled blue badge. the stupid little jobs worth still booked my car wit the blue badge in the window.
To say that the letter of complaint was blunt and to the point was an understatement. I hope that Liverpool coucil refuse to drop the ticket cause I will go to court to get someone retrained! :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

Dune
Sounds like things haven't changed in L'pool. Years ago I got ticketed whilst next too a BT van. I explained to the guy that I was doing a similar job but he insisted that it was OK for BT engineers (essential service) to park on double yellows but not me (computer engineer)

:banghead: :banghead:
utillity engineers, such as gas, electricty, bt, water board which are vital are allowed to park on yellow lines i would not class a computer engineer as vital or as a utility

10 Nov 2005

Quote by guy4fun
Ever since parking violations were decriminalised the jobs worth council idiots have taken over. They are on bonus they must be. My latest that I am fighting is for parking betwwen double yellows and resident parking on a single yellow line. It was with a disabled blue badge. the stupid little jobs worth still booked my car wit the blue badge in the window.
To say that the letter of complaint was blunt and to the point was an understatement. I hope that Liverpool coucil refuse to drop the ticket cause I will go to court to get someone retrained! :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

Dune
Sounds like things haven't changed in L'pool. Years ago I got ticketed whilst next too a BT van. I explained to the guy that I was doing a similar job but he insisted that it was OK for BT engineers (essential service) to park on double yellows but not me (computer engineer)

:banghead: :banghead:
utillity engineers, such as gas, electricty, bt, water board which are vital are allowed to park on yellow lines i would not class a computer engineer as vital or as a utility
But why is a BT engineer any different to a computer engineer? Water/gas/electric I can understand but losing your phone is no more threatening (assuming an office not a little old dear in sheltered accommodation!) than losing your computers is it? And wouldn't they all cause a similar level of obstruction anyway? If it's a rule, it should be for all not just the proletariat.

10 Nov 2005

I got a Â£60 parking ticket the other week for parking in my own private driveway mad

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The front of my car was overhanging the back of the footpath, and part of my front tyre was in contact with a paving slab..........Plenty of room to pass by I might add.
Then you have the pressure of ........ 'if you pay the fine within 14 days it's only Â£30'
Decriminalisation has definitely sparked off a trend of revenue grabbing in some Councils.
I was kinda hoping with all thse fireworks that Traffic Warden 205 might actually have accidentally caught fire, so I could make a point of NOT pissing on him :twisted:

10 Nov 2005

Buncha theivin' bastards. :shock:

11 Nov 2005

My one abiding memory of the old traffic wardens was, when I was younger there was a female warden who I knew in town, She was a flighty devil in her 40s who, when was told by a male driver she was booking, to f*** you, her answer was, well if you want to settle this out of court (wink) he shut up quick.
What a woman

11 Nov 2005

I think their should be more traffic wardens biggrin