Amusing...

[Board Game Geek]

We only get the government we elect....

[Platypus]

Have you seen how high up they are putting them now? One in Wimbledon is on a 10 metre pole.

Sorted:
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[Moscow Mule]

Then I expect that we'll see a return to irate motorists tearing down cameras as they did in the early days of speed cameras

Have you seen how high up they are putting them now? One in Wimbledon is on a 10 metre pole.

[BrilloPad]

I was expecting "I parked within 10 metres of a junction just to stop the local mafia parking over my drive. They gave me a ticket but never gave one to the mafia."

[PAH]

Then I expect that we'll see a return to irate motorists tearing down cameras as they did in the early days of speed cameras

Or simply an escalation in the cloning of number plates. Or do what Wilmslow did and get an unregistered banger so they can't trace it to you.

[Platypus]

Those new powers to allow tickets to be issued remotely by CCTV operators are going to be a right laugh. Examples were shown on a news programme the other week, with people getting tickets for simply giving way to oncoming road users.

Then I expect that we'll see a return to irate motorists tearing down cameras as they did in the early days of speed cameras

[PAH]

Ho ho, that should sort out a few folks near me! Cars sometimes appear more to have been abandoned rather than parked!

Especially those queued in traffic!

Those new powers to allow tickets to be issued remotely by CCTV operators are going to be a right laugh. Examples were shown on a news programme the other week, with people getting tickets for simply giving way to oncoming road users. I expect the appeal process is a lot harder too when you won't have evidence or even a recollection of what you were doing at the exact time.

[threaded]

Anyone who sticks a ticket on a truck that's fallen into a hole in the road really should stay on the social as they are too mentally challenged to be allowed out unescorted: what sort of idiot gives such an idiot a job?

[Platypus]

The offence? Parking more than 50 centimetres from the kerb.

Ho ho, that should sort out a few folks near me! Cars sometimes appear more to have been abandoned rather than parked!

[Xenophon]

I like it.

Here is a comment made by reader, Pitythefool:

Populist nonsense. It would be interesting to see how many of these have actually resulted in fines, rather than just tickets that were subsequently rescinded. Expecting low-paid workers on outsourced contracts to exercise their discretion or "give and take" when the terms of their contract specifically forbid it seems to go against the "flexible labour markets" orthodoxy that the right wing ideologues expound so heartily when it doesn't actually affect them. Finally, arguing from such absurd extremes doesn't take away from the fact that driving on the UK's roads has become more-and-more of a crowded nightmare for at least the last 15 years. It is bizarre that any attempt to address this issue are often as some kind of left-wing conspiracy by people who don't seem to be able to work themselves up over far more important issues.

Sounds like one of / many of you lot, to be honest.

[ratewhore]

Humourus parking tickets


I spent a couple of minutes chortling at this...