Traffic Warden Jobsworths

[puggit]

I live in a town centre and we have pretty restricted parking, although generally its excepted that after 5pm and on Sundays is a free-for-all.

Walking back from pub last night at 10.15pm (early I know ) and who should we bump in to but a traffic warden busy ticketing cars.

Now 70% of the time I am likely to be illegally parked at night, but he missed our street and I was legally parked anyway


Anyone seen a worse example?!

[cortinaman]

yes,my dad pulled up outside 'rocky's' on the a4 in cranford (before the red route was put in) at 1803 (this was the time given on the radio just before we pulled up) and as we walked over to rocky's we saw a couple of traffic wardens walk over and start issuing a ticket.my dad was rather peeved at this and he walked over and pointed to the sign saying parking only permitted outside 0800-1800 and the cheaky said that according to his watch it wasnt 1800 so he was issuing the ticket anyway so my dad took the ticket and ripped it up infront of the nobjockey and said they could suck him off for the money.......they didnt take him up on the offer and he has also heard no more about it.

[TonyOut]

You are perfectly entitled to drive off if it's a traffic warden (Not a plod) before they stick a ticket on your car. There is fck all they can do but rip up the ticket themselves and stick it up their ass

[mybrainhurts]

TonyOut said:

There is fck all they can do but rip up the ticket themselves and stick it up their ass

Are they trained to do that....?

[flooritforever]

mybrainhurts said:

TonyOut said: There is fck all they can do but rip up the ticket themselves and stick it up their ass Are they trained to do that....?

Can't possibly be. You can't train a monkey to do that, and a traffic warden has an even lower IQ than a monkey.

[TonyOut]

You can train monkeys to do most things a man can do

[flooritforever]

TonyOut said:

You can train monkeys to do most things a man can do

So can you train monkey to be rude, vindictive and not show any form of common sense?

[cptsideways]

Newquay 3.15am parking ticket in a town center car park

[pombstard]

Dunno if they still do it, but there always used to be a midnight check at a pay & display car park in Bristol city centre - the one next to Mud Dock for them that know. You could buy a ticket that took you to midnight, but needed another one to carry over to the morning (cos you caught a cab home, sensible chap)

Haven't been there for a year or three - are they still around? Gits.

Got ticketed at 2055hrs on a Sat night in Brighton back in January - was flying out to Oz the next morning so couldn't even rant.

[JMGS4]

flooritforever said:

TonyOut said: You can train monkeys to do most things a man can do So can you train monkey to be rude, vindictive and not show any form of common sense?

Tony bLIAR anyone?

[mike s]

traffic warden parked his car on yellow lines while he was ticketing cars. Evening Standard got the picture.
Alan

[stooz]

flooritforever said:

mybrainhurts said: TonyOut said: There is fck all they can do but rip up the ticket themselves and stick it up their ass Are they trained to do that....? Can't possibly be. You can't train a monkey to do that, and a traffic warden has an even lower IQ than a monkey.

I have an IQ of 168, and VOLUNTEER to warden the appalling parking in my local town, so less of the insults please, its not big and its not clever. (Or I would do it to.)

[The Saint]

A dwarf with learning disabilities is not big and not clever! :-)

[wiggy001]

Don't seem surprised by the jobsworths... many (eg NCP) are given bonuses based on the number of tickets they give out.

Milkfloats, funeral processions, slow moving traffic... no one is safe from these cnuts.

[Flat in Fifth]

You might all like to know that the Govt is going to modify the Traffic Management Bill in order to give councils statutory advice on the civil enforecment of traffic offences.

"Voluntary guidelines have failed to curb excessive action by over-zealous traffic wardens. Putting the guidelines on a statutory basis will allow the adjudicators a certain amount of discretion when hearing appeals. Motorists have been fined for veering into bus lanes to avoid an accident or allow passage to an emergency vehicle or for parking in a space where the ticket machine was broken. Councils who previously encouraged their traffic wardens to be unforgiving will now have to observe the enforcement guidelines."

Being picky I note the unwelcome emphasis on freeing up adjudicators when hearing appeals rather than making the councils and their employess operate in a professional manner.

FiF

[xxplod]

To be fair, there is a need for some enforcement of parking regs during the evening/night in places such as Brighton. You've only got to see some of the total numpty parking to appreciate that. Combine cars abandoned on zig-zags, junctions etc... with hundreds of pissed people, add in a few pissed drivers and the usual collection of Lax-Power types driving like tw@ts and you have all the ingredients of a fatal accident.

Don't get me wrong, each of the afore mentioned need addressing but badly parked cars do cause problems. Why do you think there are 24 hour Red Routes in London?

[mybrainhurts]

The obvious solution is to Nuke Brighton, sir.......

[blueyes]

stooz said:

flooritforever said: mybrainhurts said: TonyOut said: There is fck all they can do but rip up the ticket themselves and stick it up their ass Are they trained to do that....? Can't possibly be. You can't train a monkey to do that, and a traffic warden has an even lower IQ than a monkey. I have an IQ of 168, and VOLUNTEER to warden the appalling parking in my local town,

So you must be a monkey then.

[stooz]

can't argue with a logical conclusion like that

so therefore, all monkeys are 6'4" and 20 stone, and scary looking?

[streaky]

Don't be a milkman in London, you collect parking tickets by the windscreen-load ... every day!