Do you hate traffic wardens ?
10 July 2002, 09:47 AM
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Just found out about this site about "parking Clowns" aka Wardens that we all love to hate. They are trying to get this blokes protest site shut down. HAve a look before it disappears !
http://www.inkent.co.uk/homepage.htm
http://www.inkent.co.uk/homepage.htm
10 July 2002, 09:50 AM
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10 July 2002, 10:46 AM
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Very Good. And very true too. Parking in Canterbury is a nightmare and when you do find a space, the charges are ridiculous [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
10 July 2002, 10:50 AM
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Cant speak for out side London... But the council (Not the MetPolice ones) are a bunch of poo.They are racists and make 1000's of false tickets a year. They are scum.
10 July 2002, 11:20 AM
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I hate the *******. Been ticket free for 2 years, then 2 in a week. One at bloody 8.30 pm when I'd nipped into the offy for 3 minutes [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
I will now vent my anger for the next couple of months by insulting them in the street. Stuff like smiling and saying "Good morning you pair of *****" - "Is it true you only get £8.5k a year" etc. etc. Thought of getting an old banger and brake testing the ******* on mopeds. It's their fault if they run into the back you
Anyone got any good tactics / one-liners to make their lives a misery?
I will now vent my anger for the next couple of months by insulting them in the street. Stuff like smiling and saying "Good morning you pair of *****" - "Is it true you only get £8.5k a year" etc. etc. Thought of getting an old banger and brake testing the ******* on mopeds. It's their fault if they run into the back you
Anyone got any good tactics / one-liners to make their lives a misery?
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10 July 2002, 11:23 AM
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I just remembered seeing a white van man in London bouncing a crate of Stella off a wardens head. I started applauding and whooping in the style of an American. My bird gave me a clip round the ear - I like it when she plays rough.
I started applauding and whooping in the style of an American. My bird gave me a clip round the ear - I like it when she plays rough.
10 July 2002, 11:37 AM
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These people are doing an incredibly difficult job, they deal with insolent members of the public every day, most are verbally abused and physically threatened - no one deserves that kind of treatment. Without them people like you would park illegally. Obstructing vital roads and causing our cities to grind to a halt.
10 July 2002, 11:51 AM
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So why do they accept violence, threats etc. and **** pay as a way of life.
Is it because they are petty minded, jumped up little Hitlers who couldn't get into the police force?
No-one gives a t0ss about parking in France or Italy, and life's all the better for it. You do get some cracking traffic jams in Rome tho but I for one prefer mayhem to being charged £40 every time I stop for a nanosecond to use a local shop.
They really are killing our local traders with this over zealous ticketing and parking restrictions designed to generate money. This makes people drive to out of town shopping centres and damages the local high street even more.
Is it because they are petty minded, jumped up little Hitlers who couldn't get into the police force?
No-one gives a t0ss about parking in France or Italy, and life's all the better for it. You do get some cracking traffic jams in Rome tho
but I for one prefer mayhem to being charged £40 every time I stop for a nanosecond to use a local shop. They really are killing our local traders with this over zealous ticketing and parking restrictions designed to generate money. This makes people drive to out of town shopping centres and damages the local high street even more.
10 July 2002, 12:07 PM
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Maybe so, but the top of my road is a prime example, with a small supermarket on one side and an off-licence on the other - you can imagine what liberties people take.
If i could get the double yellows re-painted red, so that traffic wardens don't have to wait the 5 minutes before booking, i would do it myself. You cannot imagine how frustrating it can be.
And if ever the day came, heaven forbid, when someone urgently needed the emergency services, and they couldn't be reached because of these idiots (some of whom just sit in their cars with their arms on the window ledge, staring at you as if you're a piece of crap on their shoe) blocking the road, then i would have an even more serious problem with it.
I've been done by them too. I don't know their motives for doing the job, but in general i think they have an important job to do, however irritating it might be to us on occasion.
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Maybe so, but the top of my road is a prime example, with a small supermarket on one side and an off-licence on the other - you can imagine what liberties people take.
If i could get the double yellows re-painted red, so that traffic wardens don't have to wait the 5 minutes before booking, i would do it myself. You cannot imagine how frustrating it can be.
And if ever the day came, heaven forbid, when someone urgently needed the emergency services, and they couldn't be reached because of these idiots (some of whom just sit in their cars with their arms on the window ledge, staring at you as if you're a piece of crap on their shoe) blocking the road, then i would have an even more serious problem with it.
I've been done by them too. I don't know their motives for doing the job, but in general i think they have an important job to do, however irritating it might be to us on occasion.
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10 July 2002, 01:03 PM
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Good god. Why is everyone so conformist.
And if you don't speed you wont get a ticket - and if you don't drink your liver won't fall off, and if you don't eat red meat etc. etc.
And if you don't speed you wont get a ticket - and if you don't drink your liver won't fall off, and if you don't eat red meat etc. etc.
10 July 2002, 01:54 PM
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You're right - i'm as much a hypocrite as anyone.
I go mental when anyone has a go at me if i tell them i've had a bit of a blast in the Scoob. Arguments like the car is capable of it fall on deaf ears - they come back and tell me i could involve someone else inadvertantly because they couldn't react fast enough.
Which is true enough, you just don't believe/want to believe it.
Bad parking just directly affects me at the top of my road, so i get on my high horse about it. Otherwise i probably wouldn't give a monkey's...
I go mental when anyone has a go at me if i tell them i've had a bit of a blast in the Scoob. Arguments like the car is capable of it fall on deaf ears - they come back and tell me i could involve someone else inadvertantly because they couldn't react fast enough.
Which is true enough, you just don't believe/want to believe it.
Bad parking just directly affects me at the top of my road, so i get on my high horse about it. Otherwise i probably wouldn't give a monkey's...
10 July 2002, 02:01 PM
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heh, I like to say the following after getting a 60 quid ticket.
"Thats really put me in a bind now. I'll have to cancel the 120 goes on your mum that I've got booked next week. She aint gonna be happy."
astraboy.
"Thats really put me in a bind now. I'll have to cancel the 120 goes on your mum that I've got booked next week. She aint gonna be happy."
astraboy.
10 July 2002, 02:01 PM
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I think what p1sses me off more than anything is knowing that I'll see hundreds of people get away with parking illegally, yet the moment I do it I just know I'll get a ticket 
Used to have an office that looked out onto the town high street and you often saw traffic wardens hovering over cars. You also saw the me and my colleagues standing at the window yelling "GIVE HER A TICKET" as the bloody warden let of some woman who showed a bit of leg or fluttered her eyelids [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
Used to have an office that looked out onto the town high street and you often saw traffic wardens hovering over cars. You also saw the me and my colleagues standing at the window yelling "GIVE HER A TICKET" as the bloody warden let of some woman who showed a bit of leg or fluttered her eyelids [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
10 July 2002, 04:55 PM
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Good god. Why is everyone so conformist.
If I park on double yellers and get a £60 fine, is it my fault or the traffic wardens?
I speed and have the points to prove it. I'll try anything to avoid points/tickets (except slowing down, of course
) but at the end of the day, it's my own stupid fault.If your local council charges too much for parking, vote them out the next chance you get.
10 July 2002, 06:34 PM
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Your right it's the councils fault, but I will continue to vent my displeasure on their representatives on earth - the wardens.
Will use Astraboys suggestion next time
There used to be a bit of sport involved in getting a ticket.
These days they just hide behind a bush at 8.30 pm waiting for someone to stop with 2mm of tyre on a double yello.
It's just a giant money making scam, especially since they got private firms in to do it.
Voting won't change anything - the next lot that come in aren't going to drop the fines and lose all that lovely revenue are they.
Will use Astraboys suggestion next time
There used to be a bit of sport involved in getting a ticket.
These days they just hide behind a bush at 8.30 pm waiting for someone to stop with 2mm of tyre on a double yello.
It's just a giant money making scam, especially since they got private firms in to do it.
Voting won't change anything - the next lot that come in aren't going to drop the fines and lose all that lovely revenue are they.
10 July 2002, 06:58 PM
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10 July 2002, 07:00 PM
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I say it again... Why do they (councils) have a policy of only employing Black wardens in London. There must be a reason for it
The Only white warden I ever saw in London told me his work collegues hated him and he was made to feel un welcome
No its not a racist thread.... But a true one that must have an answer..
The Only white warden I ever saw in London told me his work collegues hated him and he was made to feel un welcome
No its not a racist thread.... But a true one that must have an answer..
10 July 2002, 07:09 PM
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...I popped inat Walsall (West Midlands) today for the first time in a few years - and what an anti-car place that has become 
[img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
Aside from the hundreds of GATSOs (including the road that was mentioned on "Dispatches: Speed Trap" - oh which half were LIVE!), they have pedestrian areas that are hard to spot (confusing signs on the "entry"), looping one-way streets (so you can't get anywhere) and extortionate parking charges. EVERYWHERE is at least 50p - you can't just pull up for two minutes to buy a paper And to cap it all, i spotted one of those big trading parks with the likes of Powerhouse, Courts, Next, JJB Sports etc. I parked up for a quick look round, but on my return to the car i noticed that THIS TOO was a (very poorly signposted) pay-and-display. Luckily the Walsall Clowns had not got me, but it certainly means that i will not be going back that way for shopping EVER AGAIN.
Councils are our servants (and we pay for them [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img] ) not our masters - i guess that they are taking lessons from the government!!
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[img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]Aside from the hundreds of GATSOs (including the road that was mentioned on "Dispatches: Speed Trap" - oh which half were LIVE!), they have pedestrian areas that are hard to spot (confusing signs on the "entry"), looping one-way streets (so you can't get anywhere) and extortionate parking charges. EVERYWHERE is at least 50p - you can't just pull up for two minutes to buy a paper
And to cap it all, i spotted one of those big trading parks with the likes of Powerhouse, Courts, Next, JJB Sports etc. I parked up for a quick look round, but on my return to the car i noticed that THIS TOO was a (very poorly signposted) pay-and-display. Luckily the Walsall Clowns had not got me, but it certainly means that i will not be going back that way for shopping EVER AGAIN.Councils are our servants (and we pay for them [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img] ) not our masters - i guess that they are taking lessons from the government!!
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10 July 2002, 08:42 PM
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No one minds the good old fashioned police traffic wardens in their black and yellow uniforms, who on the whole are stopping dangerous parking and roadblocking, and are open to discretion and reasoned apologies if you find them appraoching your motor..
BUT in the last 5 years the whole scene has changed with Council wardens acting as pure revenue machines for local councils, the fines are extortionate and their tactics are underhand to say the least. They employ absolute morons too.
****ing ****s.
If I wasn't a professional who needed to keep my job and not go to prison I d have happily decked a few by now. A couple of months in the slammer would be worth the pleasure of it.
BUT in the last 5 years the whole scene has changed with Council wardens acting as pure revenue machines for local councils, the fines are extortionate and their tactics are underhand to say the least. They employ absolute morons too.
****ing ****s.
If I wasn't a professional who needed to keep my job and not go to prison I d have happily decked a few by now. A couple of months in the slammer would be worth the pleasure of it.
10 July 2002, 08:56 PM
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My Dad loves to tell the story of how my sister when she was 5 or 6 pointed out of the car towards a traffic warden and said "Oh, look a rodent" - I swear it is a true story
Says it all really and my feelings haven't changed.
Chris
Says it all really and my feelings haven't changed.
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10 July 2002, 10:55 PM
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near to me is a chip shop, where selfish and ignorant drivers park on the pavement or blocking the road etc.
The local police know about the problem, but are powerless to do anything, because parking offences have been "contracted out". Yup, you heard right - you can effectively tell a police officer to "**** off" by parking badly and ignoring their instructions, because only a warden can nick you!
As for the "contracted out" wardens - i expect that there are more lucrative areas to patrol, because not only are they never around, but they don't even know when they will be around [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
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near to me is a chip shop, where selfish and ignorant drivers park on the pavement or blocking the road etc.
The local police know about the problem, but are powerless to do anything, because parking offences have been "contracted out". Yup, you heard right - you can effectively tell a police officer to "**** off" by parking badly and ignoring their instructions, because only a warden can nick you!
As for the "contracted out" wardens - i expect that there are more lucrative areas to patrol, because not only are they never around, but they don't even know when they will be around [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
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11 July 2002, 12:43 PM
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Personally I hate the ******* I've had a ticket before despite paying for a parking meter but the cars either end of me forced me to park on top of the white lines marking the parking bay. The geezer in front must have found it hilarius as I got a ticket and he diddn't .(they rejected ny appeal btw)
I have also had a ticket in a residential road in Camden where parking restrictions started at eight thirty I came out after an overnight stay to an empty street bar my car and a parking ticket
for sixty quid put on at 8.45 am. Quite obviously none of these things was in anyway causing a problem but still I ended up out of pocket and that is the problem with the stupid power hungry to stupid to get into the police force traffic wardens.
I have also had a ticket in a residential road in Camden where parking restrictions started at eight thirty I came out after an overnight stay to an empty street bar my car and a parking ticket
for sixty quid put on at 8.45 am. Quite obviously none of these things was in anyway causing a problem but still I ended up out of pocket and that is the problem with the stupid power hungry to stupid to get into the police force traffic wardens.
11 July 2002, 01:07 PM
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I just thought of that scene in 'The World Is Not Enough' when Bond soaks a couple of traffic wardens in his speed boat - bloody marvellous!
I guess the solution is, try and soak the bu99ers by driving fast through big puddles - heh heh heh....
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I guess the solution is, try and soak the bu99ers by driving fast through big puddles - heh heh heh....
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11 July 2002, 01:18 PM
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They are sneaky in London and wont give you an INCH - even if it is a 30" drop off by a Fed Ex van simply doing his business (this was this morning, outside work). They get no respect since they give no respect - there is NO latitude, just $$$ in their eyes.
I got booked for parking the bike between vehicles at a meter bay recently (allowed). Meter already had money in it from car driver (you are not allowed to put money in as a biker). First guy goes and a car with a *permit* comes in its place. So, I, me, then gets a ticket. The guy HAD paid for the space, albeit with a permit rather than cash, but I get a ticket. Ever since the number plate goes in the top box - no more refused appeals or costly fines.
I got booked for parking the bike between vehicles at a meter bay recently (allowed). Meter already had money in it from car driver (you are not allowed to put money in as a biker). First guy goes and a car with a *permit* comes in its place. So, I, me, then gets a ticket. The guy HAD paid for the space, albeit with a permit rather than cash, but I get a ticket. Ever since the number plate goes in the top box - no more refused appeals or costly fines.
11 July 2002, 01:44 PM
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Diesel - I noticed a lot of that in London recently - bikes with the plate covered with a polly bag parked on the pavement etc.
I presume the wardens aren't allowed to touch your vehicle, but thought plod wouldn't be happy with it.
What's the score?
FJ
I presume the wardens aren't allowed to touch your vehicle, but thought plod wouldn't be happy with it.
What's the score?
FJ