New parking rules apply from today??
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bobda said:
Hedders said:
bobda said:
Why not just park legally? 
Says the man who lives in Yorkshire... Try parking legally all the time in London!
are some made deliberatly strange to be misleading?
bobda said:
Hedders said:
bobda said:
Why not just park legally?
Says the man who lives in Yorkshire... Try parking legally all the time in London!
Point taken but there are places in the country where parking is a huge problem and other places where it is not so frustrating. I used to want to physically assault traffic wardens whenever i saw them, now i live in a place where they provide enough parking I really don't mind them (so much).
Hedders said:
bobda said:
Hedders said:
bobda said:
Why not just park legally?
Says the man who lives in Yorkshire... Try parking legally all the time in London!Point taken but there are places in the country where parking is a huge problem and other places where it is not so frustrating. I used to want to physically assault traffic wardens whenever i saw them, now i live in a place where they provide enough parking I really don't mind them (so much).
Big Brother is on its way. 1984 here we come.
To those smug gits who are saying park legally, I will cite the case of the driving instrctor in one of the London boroughs who was ticketed , based on CCTV evidence for double parking.
When the CCTV footage was examined it clearly shows that the ADI was actually teaching a pupil to reverse parallel park. The pupil didn't get it first go and had to have a couple of attempts, and after the successful reverse park there was a few seconds, no more, of discussion, and then they drove off to continue the lesson.
What was also clear was that, at no time was any other traffic inconvenienced, in fact there was no other moving traffic in any of the footage I saw, also no accusation could be raised of using a parking space which was desired by another as there were empty parking spaces.
Of course in the photographic evidence produced by the enforcement office all they gave was a still showing the instructors car stationary alongside a parked vehicle immediately prior to the reversing element of the manouevre.
So as for the just park legally wallahs, "ffs wake up and smell the coffee!"
When the CCTV footage was examined it clearly shows that the ADI was actually teaching a pupil to reverse parallel park. The pupil didn't get it first go and had to have a couple of attempts, and after the successful reverse park there was a few seconds, no more, of discussion, and then they drove off to continue the lesson.
What was also clear was that, at no time was any other traffic inconvenienced, in fact there was no other moving traffic in any of the footage I saw, also no accusation could be raised of using a parking space which was desired by another as there were empty parking spaces.
Of course in the photographic evidence produced by the enforcement office all they gave was a still showing the instructors car stationary alongside a parked vehicle immediately prior to the reversing element of the manouevre.
So as for the just park legally wallahs, "ffs wake up and smell the coffee!"
F i F said:
To those smug gits who are saying park legally, I will cite the case of the driving instrctor in one of the London boroughs who was ticketed , based on CCTV evidence for double parking.
When the CCTV footage was examined it clearly shows that the ADI was actually teaching a pupil to reverse parallel park. The pupil didn't get it first go and had to have a couple of attempts, and after the successful reverse park there was a few seconds, no more, of discussion, and then they drove off to continue the lesson.
What was also clear was that, at no time was any other traffic inconvenienced, in fact there was no other moving traffic in any of the footage I saw, also no accusation could be raised of using a parking space which was desired by another as there were empty parking spaces.
Of course in the photographic evidence produced by the enforcement office all they gave was a still showing the instructors car stationary alongside a parked vehicle immediately prior to the reversing element of the manouevre.
So as for the just park legally wallahs, "ffs wake up and smell the coffee!"
Isn't it really sad that I beleive you!When the CCTV footage was examined it clearly shows that the ADI was actually teaching a pupil to reverse parallel park. The pupil didn't get it first go and had to have a couple of attempts, and after the successful reverse park there was a few seconds, no more, of discussion, and then they drove off to continue the lesson.
What was also clear was that, at no time was any other traffic inconvenienced, in fact there was no other moving traffic in any of the footage I saw, also no accusation could be raised of using a parking space which was desired by another as there were empty parking spaces.
Of course in the photographic evidence produced by the enforcement office all they gave was a still showing the instructors car stationary alongside a parked vehicle immediately prior to the reversing element of the manouevre.
So as for the just park legally wallahs, "ffs wake up and smell the coffee!"
In any sane country we should all be laughting at you for posting something so silly.
However in our current climate few will doubt you
Some will..... but they will be wrong.
odyssey2200 said:
Isn't it really sad that I beleive you!
In any sane country we should all be laughting at you for posting something so silly.
However in our current climate few will doubt you
Some will..... but they will be wrong.
Excuse me but I'm not quite sure what you are saying here.In any sane country we should all be laughting at you for posting something so silly.
However in our current climate few will doubt you
Some will..... but they will be wrong.
Are you accusing me of making this up?
Because sadly I am not, I can't remember which borough now I will admit.
just got a £60 fine for taking a route which had a no motorised vehicle sign at the start of it. all caught on cctv. i would grudgingly accept 100% fault in normal circumstances.
however, this was when i was dropping my wife off at kings cross on saturday with plenty of luggage, and anyone who's been there recently knows it's a dog's breakfast at the moment. dead ends, no diversion signs, and it changes from week to week as they finish off the upgrade to kk/ st pancras.
this was genuinely the only route i could think of having been up a few dead ends already. all traffic contraventions should be suspended while they finish it off.
however, this was when i was dropping my wife off at kings cross on saturday with plenty of luggage, and anyone who's been there recently knows it's a dog's breakfast at the moment. dead ends, no diversion signs, and it changes from week to week as they finish off the upgrade to kk/ st pancras.
this was genuinely the only route i could think of having been up a few dead ends already. all traffic contraventions should be suspended while they finish it off.
tamore said:
just got a £60 fine for taking a route which had a no motorised vehicle sign at the start of it. all caught on cctv. i would grudgingly accept 100% fault in normal circumstances.
however, this was when i was dropping my wife off at kings cross on saturday with plenty of luggage, and anyone who's been there recently knows it's a dog's breakfast at the moment. dead ends, no diversion signs, and it changes from week to week as they finish off the upgrade to kk/ st pancras.
this was genuinely the only route i could think of having been up a few dead ends already. all traffic contraventions should be suspended while they finish it off.
I'll tell you another true story so bloody silly it's hardly believable.however, this was when i was dropping my wife off at kings cross on saturday with plenty of luggage, and anyone who's been there recently knows it's a dog's breakfast at the moment. dead ends, no diversion signs, and it changes from week to week as they finish off the upgrade to kk/ st pancras.
this was genuinely the only route i could think of having been up a few dead ends already. all traffic contraventions should be suspended while they finish it off.
When they were building Sheffield Supertram an alarm went off one night at a furniture store on the way out to Hillsborough. It was impossible to get there legally, ie by obeying all the no right turns, no left turns, buses only, one ways, what have you. Eventually somebody just said f
k it and went 200m the wrong way up a one way street to get to the premises.Next week I went back to this shop and the owner said that he had complained to the council about it and that his trade had dropped to less thana third of what it previously had been simply because people could not get to his shop.
Which of course will elicit the comments, stop being lazy arses, park, get out and walk. Yeah right, all parking was suspended for several streets around, the only parking anywhere near was the shop's own car park. Council just didn't give a toss. The shop is now closed.
Edited by F i F on Monday 3rd March 16:53
F i F said:
Excuse me but I'm not quite sure what you are saying here.
Are you accusing me of making this up?
Because sadly I am not, I can't remember which borough now I will admit.
I think what he's saying is, what you have posted is so ridiculous that no-one should believe you BUT as we know how even more unbelievable the parking revenue (extra council tax, kerching) collections are, we DO actually believe what you've put..Are you accusing me of making this up?
Because sadly I am not, I can't remember which borough now I will admit.
I wonder how we'll prove that it's not us if someone clones the plates too......
F i F said:
odyssey2200 said:
Isn't it really sad that I beleive you!
In any sane country we should all be laughting at you for posting something so silly.
However in our current climate few will doubt you
Some will..... but they will be wrong.
Excuse me but I'm not quite sure what you are saying here.In any sane country we should all be laughting at you for posting something so silly.
However in our current climate few will doubt you
Some will..... but they will be wrong.
Are you accusing me of making this up?
Because sadly I am not, I can't remember which borough now I will admit.
I do genuinely beleive you!
In any sane country this sort of thing would never happen but this country is so screwed up!
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