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F*$£%*!G Traffic Wardens!!!
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Yes, it has been a traffic warden day today!!!
Basically, at work there is a loading bay area for vans to park up and unload or load up on stock, etc. They are suppose to have as long as is needed to do this, except today the traffic wardens have decided that from now on they are going to ticket ANY vehicle that parks up in the loading bay area. Thus making themselves a nice little mint of businesses that have no other option but to park their vans there for deliveries, etc.
On the flip side, there is the back door to my family shop, which is away from the bay and so, in the past used to get ticketed but now that some random shopper parks there each day, it is "outside the jurisdiction of wardens" according to them. It was in their jurisdiction to ticket our van but now its a shopper not a business its ok to park their.
Finally, out side Maplins, buying light bulbs, in a space NEXT to a disabled space but NOT a disabled space, my van was given a ticket (not by official traffic warden but by some private hire one. £60 fine for parking in a shop car park to use the shop in question. And they will not in anyway let it slide or refund the fine unless there is proof that the van was parked in a regular parking spot, not a disabled one, which is impossible to prove as there is no cameras and it is some scruffy private hire twat of a wardens word against ours.
Fucking Traffic Wardens are SCUM! Evil, sadistic, lying, corrupt, need to die SCUM!
Basically, at work there is a loading bay area for vans to park up and unload or load up on stock, etc. They are suppose to have as long as is needed to do this, except today the traffic wardens have decided that from now on they are going to ticket ANY vehicle that parks up in the loading bay area. Thus making themselves a nice little mint of businesses that have no other option but to park their vans there for deliveries, etc.
On the flip side, there is the back door to my family shop, which is away from the bay and so, in the past used to get ticketed but now that some random shopper parks there each day, it is "outside the jurisdiction of wardens" according to them. It was in their jurisdiction to ticket our van but now its a shopper not a business its ok to park their.
Finally, out side Maplins, buying light bulbs, in a space NEXT to a disabled space but NOT a disabled space, my van was given a ticket (not by official traffic warden but by some private hire one. £60 fine for parking in a shop car park to use the shop in question. And they will not in anyway let it slide or refund the fine unless there is proof that the van was parked in a regular parking spot, not a disabled one, which is impossible to prove as there is no cameras and it is some scruffy private hire twat of a wardens word against ours.
Fucking Traffic Wardens are SCUM! Evil, sadistic, lying, corrupt, need to die SCUM!
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I'd say the onus is on THEM to prove you were in a disabled bay not the other way around. Fuck'em !
Kermit will be along soon, he's good at legal stuff
Or you could try -
'Are you disabled Sir ?'
'Yeah i've got Tourettes, fuck off.'
They need a licence, but after they have that private companies can clamp and issue tickets.
If they're gonna play cheap, ya might as well do the same.
Why would it be legal in the first place?
Yes. Every parkign ticket I've had, I've appealed and been let off - as if I'd done something wrong in the first place.
I remember parking legitimateely in a council car park that had a deal with a traveldodge I was staying in. I nthis particualr car park money that you put in wouldn't be carried on to the next day. The travelodfe informed me however that if you bought two tickets you were fine and then they showed me a letter concerning the agreement they had with the council.
Next morning I went out to my van and found one of these jobs worth eyeing up my van. I explained the deal and he admitted he knew about it, but he was having none of it, said he didn't care, and slapped me with a ticket.
I appealed and got a letter back saying that the fine had been waved, but was told not to do it again? What the fucks that all about? Either I was right or I was wrong. Don't do it again?
I sent back two more letters requesting an apology and never got any reply.
At the end of the day, it cost me time (and money) to appeal. And I never got an appolgy. I have no problem in verbally abusing any of these cunts now. :mad: I hate the pricks.
If you ever get caught parking in a disabled bay when you shouldn't be and they ask you what disablity you have, tell them tourettes, then tell them they're a 'cunt' and to 'fuck off'.
As for the private ticket, simply don't pay it. Put it in writing that you refuse to pay it because you were not parked in the manner that they claimed, and that it is up to them to prove that you were. As they're private, on private land, it would be a civil claim and I expect that they wouldn't bother chasing it. You just might not be allowed back on the private car park.
Traffic Wardens are often on targets- if they don't ticket enough people, they get fired. It is more than their job's worth to let you off or show compassion, because NCP and the other private twats will sack them if they do. That said, the people who whinge the most are the ones who are in the wrong- posh twats in Beemers, and van drivers, who ignore yellow lines should be towed away and charged £500 to get their car back.
As for what happens when the traffic wardens aren't there...utter chaos.
Having been a white van man I can understand, yes its annoying for other people but in most places you really dont have a choice. You try finding a parking place in central london to make a delivery!
We are using private companies to run operation theatre's and wage wars for us, so I dont see this being that different.
Personally i wouldnt be able to sleep at night knowing that i had issued 20-30 tickets to people, half of which are a shamble!!
I think if you seek some legal advice you will discover that,in the eyes of the law, it`s not.
They are given targets, especially the traffic department.
Parking control in most cities is now a civil matter rather than a criminal one.
I'd agree that profit-making companies such as NCP should not be allowed to issue tickets, as it creates problems and removes a lack of objectivity. Before traffic wardens would take a decision to wait a few minutes before issuing tickets for overstaying in a parking bay, but in the time of profit and targets they can no longer do so.
Most traffic tickets issued are perfectly justified, though, it just tends to be pricks who don't think the regulations apply to them. And for them I have absolutely zero sympathy. And as I say, anyone who parks in a disabled bay without the badge should be facing a fine of at least £300 (though I'd like to see them crush the posh beemers and 4x4s that are the worst for it).
My guess is that money is the only objective.
Although they are a good money maker its impossible to get one put in an area which hasnt already had a series of nasty accidents.
I also love those people who claimed that the drop in road accidents last year was a result of speed cameras, yet completely ignored the previous 6 or 7 years of rises since speed cameras were operational.
A competent driver shouldn't "drift" over the speed limit. And 34mph in a 30 is dangerous in my book, far more so than 70 in a 60.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5387568.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4636913.stm
They seem to at least be helping in that.
I completely agree with you here.
FATAL CRASH FACTORS
Losing control
35%
Going too fast for conditions
17%
Failing to look properly
17%
Turning or maneouvring poorly
12%
Exceeding speed limit
12%
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5387568.stm
Emphasis mine.
Speed cameras don't neccessarily reduce accidents, they do reduce deaths and serious injuries.
...as well as generating an ass-load of revenue.
If everyone obeyed the law then the revenue raised would be zero...you might as well claim that any fine is just "revenue raising" and an unfair tax on criminals.
Speed cameras are rarely in a place for no reason- the reason is that people are driving too fast for the roads and are causing dangerous crashes.
If you lose control you're nearly always driving too fast for the road conditions.
If councils need money to provide services I'd much rather they got that by speed cameras than increasing council tax, especially as there is an added value of less people dying.
My mate lost his licence because of persistant speeding, strangely enough he learnt his lesson after that.
And even if they are only implicated in 12% of accidents, that's still loads, and its a factor in accidents we can solve far more easily than the others.