From The Times. Don't think anybody has posted this here yet...
timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_weblog/2008/03/the-ten-crazies.html
links to The Times aren't normally allowed. I'll let this through this time, but as a non clickable link.
Edited by Webmaster on 07/03/2008 at 12:43
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Funnier even than the article itself was the comment posted below it by "Richard Newman" which said, in essence, that these things are never the warden's fault because they are all in badly-paid, dead-end jobs with no security or prospects, and the tickets were probably rescinded anyway. Oh, so that makes it all OK, then.
Sigh.
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If the parking attendants' salaries depend on number of tickets issued, then this is continue.
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I've just heard on the news that, in one area, parking wardens are to be equipped with cameras to help prevent them getting beaten-up by irate motorists.
When I heard this, my first thought was sympathy for the wardens - but, having read this link, I'm not surprised they get attacked! Maybe some common sense would help.
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How is a parking attendant supposed to know that the reason you have overstayed your time on a meter is because you were caught up in a bank raid?
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maybe the stocking mask and the shooter pointing at him could be a clue :)
Edited by Pugugly on 07/03/2008 at 22:22
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I appreciate that it won't make me popular - but is that it?
Can't see any problem at all with 8 or 9 of the tickets. My view is that 'Street Wardens' as they are called around here should have no discretion, that should right come higher up the chain.
If you're stopped in contravention of the rules you get a ticket, why is that such a problem.
Now for the really outrageous bit. Street Wardens are brilliant! We've had them for about six months and so far they have been a huge success. You can now drive into the town centre and usually immediately park for free for an hour, without the 'habitual overstayers' blocking the system. The pay and display for longer visits is now no longer jammed with 'habitual overstayers', the roads are no longer filled with 'blue badge' cars parked in silly places, the pavements and pedestrianised zones are no longer filled with cyclists taking a short cut ..... they all know now that if they break the rules they will get a fine. If they don't they wont.
Amazing how it concentrates the mind!
Edited by hxj on 07/03/2008 at 13:56
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"I appreciate that it won't make me popular - but is that it?"
I agree with you. If you could get out of parking properly by putting a note on your windscreen saying "having a heart attack" then we'd all do it.
A wouldn't ticket the poor guy with the scooter and I bet the horse was a parking attendant having a laugh.
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The horse one made me laugh; some of them were perfectly reasonable; some were definitely not.
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Now for the really outrageous bit. Street Wardens are brilliant! We've had them for about six months and so far they have been a huge success.
In Congleton we can give a view from the opposite end of the spectrum. We used to have traffic wardens, we don't any more. It's a nightmare. There are pretty much always cars parked on the double yellows outside the town hall and along the main street, backing traffic up and causing havoc.
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A while ago here, there was a nomination for "swine-of-the-week" for the parking warden who ticketted a car whilst the driver was just nearby helping a hit & run victim until the ambulance arrived. { Unfortunately, we haven't moved on here form the old English law of resposibility meaning that you help people at your own peril.}
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