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That'll teach them. They either need to write the ticket sureptitiously round the corner and then do a sprint forwards when the driver isn't looking, or else fire them from a distance with darts and rubber suckers.
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Unfortunately not, maybe rather early despite this being very interesting. Perhaps direct contact might be quickest?
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www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2044304,00.html
Note correct spelling of surname.
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Correct spelling? In the Guardian?
Whatever next.
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So what's to stop a dodgy traffic warden claiming to have handed the notice to someone, when he has not?
Or, for that matter, a dodgy parker claiming that it wasn't handed to him, when it was?
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> So what's to stop a dodgy traffic warden claiming to have handed the notice to someone, when he has not?
>Or, for that matter, a dodgy parker claiming that it wasn't handed to him, when it was?
That's why the UK is being covered in CCTV - and so they can see you drop a sweetie paper.
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> So what's to stop a dodgy traffic warden claiming to have handed the notice to someone, when he has not?
.That's why the UK is being covered in CCTV - and so they can see you drop a sweetie paper.
Or indeed enable you to prove that you did not. Although that doesn't make quite such an emotive headline.
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Much as I see the argument against big brother, I'm quite happy for people who drop litter out of their car window (and I mean ESPECIALLY fag ends, I don't see why there should be some weird blind spot where they're not counted) to be hanged, drawn and quartered.
Slightly out of keeping with my generally liberal views, but hey, I never claimed consistency!
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I'm quitehappy for people who drop litter out of their car window (and I mean ESPECIALLY fag ends, I don't see why there should be some weird blind spot where they're not counted) to be hanged, drawn and quartered.
Come come Bazza... although I think cigarette ends are more slobbish than I did when I smoked cigarettes (always used to bung them out of the window, usually after checking for following bikers) they aren't very serious litter, soon ground to dust and slurry with the other small stuff on the road. On the other hand MacD boxes, chip papers and whole cigarette packets do make the place look squalid, as does chewing gum on the pavement, now everywhere... they come and steam it off and three days later it's as if nothing has been done.
HDQ is a bit severe in my opinion... perhaps a day in the stocks?
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Apparently a filter tip takes 12 years to disapear completely!!
MD
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Apparently cigarette litter (fag ends mostly) accounts for over 40% of the TOTAL litter dropped in our wonderful land!!!
Fag ends don't "just disappear" as if by magic, they are a real pain in the backside and apart from dog muck, littering is one thing that really gets my back-up.
I live on a pedestrian route to a small urban railway station and almost daily there is an empty packet of fags (always same brand) and drinks can/bottle on the pavement outside my house, (I haven't managed to catch the culprit yet.)
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Surely that name is too unusual for there to be two.........
www.cpalliance.net/election_pdfs/CPCanningtownleaf...f
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I'm not in favour of litter either, but spending large amounts of money on CCTV (to make us safer, we are told) and then using the system to fine lots of people £30 for two mins on a double yellow or littering sounds like a cash generation exercise to me, rather than a safety programme. Bit like speed cameras....
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>>>So what's to stop a dodgy traffic warden claiming to have handed the notice to someone, when he has not?
>>>Or, for that matter, a dodgy parker claiming that it wasn't handed to him, when it was?
Round here (at the moment, East London) I always see wardens photographing cars they have ticketed. I assume this is used to prove ticket was 'delivered'.
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Weird or not?
The Transport for London (Consequential Provisions) Order 2005 at
Schedule 2 amends the London Local Authorities Act 2000. Paragraphs 2 and 3 modify sections 4 and 5 of that Act so as to enable Transport for London to serve penalty charge notices under the Road Traffic Act 1991 for parking contraventions on GLA roads and side roads on the basis of camera information and where a parking attendant is prevented from issuing a notice.
It appears that having tried to rely on this TfL were take to task by the offender who appealed all the way to the Parking Adjudicator who was sympathetic and came down against TFL who then appealed to the High Court and also lost as reported.
Not the first time:
Lamina v Transport for London
Case No. 2050307012 PCN Number: GF01291318
Parked on a Clearway
Transport for London state that this Penalty Charge Notice was served by post
because the driver "prevented the parking attendant from serving the PCN by ignoring
him/her and driving the vehicle away."
Driving away does not of itself amount to preventing the Penalty Charge Notice being
issued, as Transport for London should know well.
Considering all the evidence before me carefully I am not satisfied that, on this
particular occasion, the Penalty Charge Notice was properly issued.
Accordingly, this appeal must be allowed.
The Adjudicator is aware that this is not the first time the Transport for London have
attempted issued Penalty Charge Notices in such circumstances. Repeated attempts to
resist an appeal might be deemed to amount to acting vexatiously.
Henry Michael Greenslade
Adjudicator
1 November 2005
So this gives an easy let out which no doubt will be followed by the mass.
Understand that plans are being hatched to bring legislation out to plug the loophole.
dvd
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Daily Mail's story today:
tinyurl.com/2ebgk5
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I've also found it interesting that in the news yesterday about thousands of motorists being fined and given points for (still) using a mobile whilst driving, quite a large number involved those accompanying a learner driver.
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What\'s for you won\'t pass you by
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Is it illegal for a driving instructor to use a mobile ie when a passenger? I do agree that they won't have their mind on instructing and/or supervising and it is a bad idea but illegal?
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Presumably the principle is that the supervising, qualified driver must be ready to take full control of the car at any time. (Although how you do that in a single-control car, I've no idea.) Anyway, that precludes having one hand and most of a brain full of phone.
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Surely that name is too unusual for there to be two......... www.cpalliance.net/election_pdfs/CPCanningtownleaf...f
I read that he wants to change the 'Dictator attitude'
Good!
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