traffic warden - just parked outside my office - i

[craigw]

about 3 feet from the kerb and on a double yellow line.

I went outside & told him to move it

what a bunch of to$$ers

[ATG]

clamp them

[puggit]

Always carry a loaded camera!!!

[ATG]

and cover their windscreen in yellow post-its

[centurion07]

craigw said:

about 3 feet from the kerb and on a double yellow line. I went outside & told him to move it what a bunch of to$$ers

Did he?

[Dwight VanDriver]

If he is on duty then I think you will find in the relevant No Waiting Order appertaining to those lines an exemption allowing him to do so.

Likewise Plodkars and Tallivans.

DVD

[roosevelt]

Is that more than the law allows (in cm's) ????

[Peter Ward]

Dwight VanDriver said:

If he is on duty then I think you will find in the relevant No Waiting Order appertaining to those lines an exemption allowing him to do so. Likewise Plodkars and Tallivans. DVD

I think we just have to face it. Those in authority are not under the law. Mr Blair travels in a bus lane. Police who are not obviously on emergency duty drive above speed limits. Scamera Partnerships give out incomplete interpretations of the law on NIPs. Of course all this is wrong, but it could be worse. We could have the sort of regime most recently seen in Haiti where there is no rule of law at all.

Edit: something happened tonight which confirmed my view. I was driving along the A46 outside Warwick at about 9:20pm. In front, one car was overtaking another at about 65-70. Another car came tanking along in the outside lane at 90-100. As it passed me I saw that it was a TrafPol Volvo estate.

Now, a little quiz. Did it:
1) Slow down, hold back until the car overtook and pulled back in, then continue
2) Put its blue lights on to warn the driver to move over quickly
3) Get within a few feet of the overtaking car, tailgate aggressively, bullying the car into speeding up to get past, then continue on its way at high speed again?

I'll give you a clue. It's not 1 or 2.

IMHO this is not good driving by the police, and just contributes to the feeling that there's one law for us and another for them. I'm not tarring every BiB with the same brush. There are some fine police contributing to the forums here, and no doubt many others around the country. But every time the public sees behaviour like this it's another nail in the coffin of public respect for the police, and it's hard for the good ones to make up that deficit.

>> Edited by Peter Ward on Wednesday 25th February 21:40