One for those of you who live in glasshouses and never ever throw stones to delight at:
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One of our cars was attending a motoring related death recently and parked in an near empty pay and display across the road. It was subsequently ticketed whilst the job was still ongoing. The mind boggles.
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If you give the very much less intelligent members of our society positions of jobsworth or their bosses, with a one point higher IQ, give orders to them to nab all and sundry, what do you expect?
Remember, most traffic wardens have just enough intelligence to become traffic wardens...:-))
I once remonstrated with a traffic warden who had allowed a van driver to park on the pavement in our town centre hindering elderly people who then had to walk into the busy roadway, pointing out that if I had attempted the same illegal activity he would have booked me on the spot.
His reaction was of complete indifference and sheer arrogant contempt - he had the power and he was going to employ it.
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I've noticed that police cars in Brighton have big stickers on the windows stating that they are an emergency vehicle on duty. Must have been because our oh so lovely wardens here are a bit ticket happy.
We did get chatting to one young lady warden once who never gave us tickets even if we were on double yellows outside the restaurant. We'd go to move it and she told us she didn't mind! Got chatting and it turned out her boss had insisted that she issue more tickets - but she told him that she couldn't as all drivers in her area were law abiding citizens and never parked illegally!! Not seen her for a while now.....
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I always thought a traffic warden was a failed PE teacher.
Actually, I'm fairly annoyed at the one in my town - she blatantly ignores vehicles parked on double yellows / loading bays / inconvenient places, and just hangs around the car park waiting to nab people whose tickets have just expired.
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Round here the "ambassadors" issue tickets if you spend too long (more than 5 seconds?) getting a ticket from the machine.
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I can't understand why the penalty is the same for overstaying your time by a couple of minutes on a meter or in a car park, and parking on a double yellow in the middle of a busy high street.
Surely one "offence" is depriving the Council of a few pence revenue and the other is creating a potentially life-threatening situation.
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