Running over a Traffic Warden - good or bad?
Discussion
A traffic warden stepped out in front of me earlier, and I seriously had to haul up and found said warden spawled over the front of my car.
I had considered running a bit longer and take him out properly, it would of been a low speed, there were plenty of witnesses to say he stepped out without looking. If i had of hit him it would of been really low speed.
But - Am i a bad person to consider running over a traffic warden? especially as he gave me a ticket 2 weeks ago.
(I did actually get a round of applause from the witnesses for nearly running him over.)
I had considered running a bit longer and take him out properly, it would of been a low speed, there were plenty of witnesses to say he stepped out without looking. If i had of hit him it would of been really low speed.
But - Am i a bad person to consider running over a traffic warden? especially as he gave me a ticket 2 weeks ago.
(I did actually get a round of applause from the witnesses for nearly running him over.)
danhay said:
Saw 2 of them today park their van on a double yellow, nip into the newsagent then drive off.
What we need is the equivalent of citizen's arrest for parking offences!
All the more reason to have a camera phone. Take their pictures, send it to the local papers and the Daily Mail. Embarrass the hell out of them.
race2the redline said:
Good: For your mood and it would certainly brighton up your day
Bad: I assume for your front bumper/suspension
its amazing how fast you can think.
one of my thoughts was - i am driving my nice car, and i dont really want to damage it.
now, if i had of been driving my old 827 i may of considered this point longer.
tinman0 said:
Good: For your mood and it would certainly brighton up your day
Bad: I assume for your front bumper/suspension
its amazing how fast you can think.
one of my thoughts was - i am driving my nice car, and i dont really want to damage it.
now, if i had of been driving my old 827 i may of considered this point longer.
Now if i was multitasking (i.e driving a huge 4x4 to annoy ken) then damage wouldnt be an issue
yertis said:
They are still a human being so you did the right thing.
Only technically. In the spiritual sense they're lost, wasted lives.
The problem is not the traffic wardens-you are attacking the symptom and not the cause.
The problem is Lentilist councils who have brought in parking restrictions as part of their war against the car.
c c said:
We might not like what they do. Maybe even they might not like what they do.
But at least they are not scrounging of the state. It’s the local council that set the parking restrictions these guys just enforce them. They deserve a brake!!
Let me see, they take money from local councils, which at last count were an arm of the state, and in return they make other people's lives a misery. Doesn't that make them worse than dole scroungers, who take less from the state, and don't, directly, screw my life up?
c c said:
We might not like what they do. Maybe even they might not like what they do.
But at least they are not scrounging of the state. It’s the local council that set the parking restrictions these guys just enforce them. They deserve a brake!!
Problems arise when they are given targets to meet. They should only ticket people who have parked incorectly, but if there are not enough offenders they tend to bend the rules a bit. Thats why people hate them, because they are not "just doing their job"t they are going above and beyond to get that ticket on your car.
hilarious typo 
Well done. I wondered who would spot that one.Gassing Station | The Pie & Piston Archive | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff