Advice req re. incident with parking attendant.
11 March 2008, 01:10 AM
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I am genuinely suprised that your attitude in life has "made you a lot of money".
Based on the OP, the first trait you demonstrated was laziness - not commonly attributed to success. Able bodied people parking on double yellows is a sure sign of a sloth of the increasingly common Selfish breed.
You have also demonstrated an inability to live up to your responsibilities by trying to avoid the perfectly legitmate fine that was coming your way for parking on double yellow lines.
The lesson to be learnt from this thread isn't one of whether trying to run over a traffic warden is a good enough thread to get you oodles of SN brownie points from your motoring inept acolytes. Nor is it to see whether you have any legal recourse from your ticket. The lesson is NOT to park like a gland next time...
If you have made so much money and are such a marvellous financial success you should be able to afford a pay and display ticket and who knows, maybe even some roller boots to help you get to your desintation on foot and on time without burning too many of your prescious calories.
Based on the OP, the first trait you demonstrated was laziness - not commonly attributed to success. Able bodied people parking on double yellows is a sure sign of a sloth of the increasingly common Selfish breed.
You have also demonstrated an inability to live up to your responsibilities by trying to avoid the perfectly legitmate fine that was coming your way for parking on double yellow lines.
The lesson to be learnt from this thread isn't one of whether trying to run over a traffic warden is a good enough thread to get you oodles of SN brownie points from your motoring inept acolytes. Nor is it to see whether you have any legal recourse from your ticket. The lesson is NOT to park like a gland next time...
If you have made so much money and are such a marvellous financial success you should be able to afford a pay and display ticket and who knows, maybe even some roller boots to help you get to your desintation on foot and on time without burning too many of your prescious calories.
11 March 2008, 08:21 AM
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11 March 2008, 10:11 AM
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Like I said before this won't stop private legal action. The insurance company will not want to appoint a lawyer to go through all the ins and outs of health and safety legislation, and will just pay an out of court settlement. That's how the no-win no-fee system normally works : it relies on the fear of legal costs.
If the traffic warden is disciplined or even sacked surely its going to prove she was in the wrong if it goes to court .
11 March 2008, 11:16 AM
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I have added something helpful to this thread as I am condeming selfish illegal parking and am condeming the fact that you are part of what is wrong with society today by not being a man when you get caught and facing your responsibilities.
When you parked in a glandular fashion you knew you were taking a chance, you got caught and then shirked your punishment...
Telling me to **** off wouldnt hide the fact that in this instance you behaved like a scumtard either, in fact it would emphasise it...
If you post on a public forum there is just a small chance that not everyone will be a pitiful admirer of your pathetic behaviour and that those non-followers are just as entitled as the others to post a comment on the thread concerned.
Maybe the law should be changed so that parking on double yellows has a madatory 6 point endorsement and is valid as soon as the warden puts pen to paper (with photographic evidence)... You'd soon think twice then
I shall resist responding again to any more of your intelligent retorts in this thread as my point is succinctly made with honour and valour...
PS - Hope the fine sticks
11 March 2008, 11:27 AM
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As I understood it he did not get caught. THe law says quite clearly that he did not get a ticket becuase if you drive away before the ticket is issued you don't have to pay it. So what is your problem ? You don't think that perhaps the traffic warden should accept her responsability for being a 'gland' ?
11 March 2008, 11:29 AM
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11 March 2008, 11:31 AM
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I had a feeling there would be a genuine reason why you would be on double yellows outside your own home. Surely there must be some leeway for situations like this.
11 March 2008, 11:50 AM
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As I understood it he did not get caught. THe law says quite clearly that he did not get a ticket becuase if you drive away before the ticket is issued you don't have to pay it. So what is your problem ? You don't think that perhaps the traffic warden should accept her responsability for being a 'gland' ?
chop
The poster is just a small minded cretin.
11 March 2008, 11:56 AM
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fed up to the back teeth with the fact that sometimes a man cant park outside his own bloody house without yellow lines painted there. They give you residents permits (which you have to pay for) but never allocate enough parking so you are screwed.
11 March 2008, 02:14 PM
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Double yellow lines mean "No waiting". The Highway Code (download 'Road Markings') states "You may stop to load or unload (unless there are also loading restrictions as described below)"
Are there "No unloading" stripes painted on the kerb. If not then you are legally allowed a reasonable time to unload your boxes.
Are there "No unloading" stripes painted on the kerb. If not then you are legally allowed a reasonable time to unload your boxes.
11 March 2008, 05:15 PM
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By driving away (as I'm allowed to go) I avoided the ticket and any hassle in going through the appeal process. Unfortunately with running over her foot it has caused a lot more hassle.
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11 March 2008, 05:43 PM
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Not sure if anyone has mentioned this (as I did not read entire thread) but sure the traffic warden should of issued the ticket in a safe manner i.e from side of the car stood on pavement, not stood in front of a car or on the road.
If she had been issuing on in safe manner then her foot would of been on pavement and not road and therefore would not of found herself being run over.
Well done Chop!
If she had been issuing on in safe manner then her foot would of been on pavement and not road and therefore would not of found herself being run over.
Well done Chop!
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