Traffic Warden - special place in HELL!!!

[Rmx]

This happened earlier, down the road from my house. As if crashing your car isn't bad enough, imagine getting slapped with a parking ticket too.........

[Junkman]

It's on a double yellow, if I'm not mistaken?

[Jim Bell]

IOTWATFTKOT.

 

Wounder dude.

[Junkman]

Not sure what car it is (honestly), but on second thought, whoever put himself into the misery of driving it,

is actually punished enough without having an accident and/or parking ticket.

[Rmx]

It is a double yellow indeed, but maybe its just me and there's no way I would have issued a ticket.......can't exactly be driven or pushed down the road.

[Junkman]

Maybe it's just me, but people should remove their rubbish from public streets.

[anonymous user]

Many years ago down in West Wales it made the local paper when a rather over-zealous warden booked a fire-engine on double yellows; it was working at the time dealing with a fire. The warden did not last much longer, I think her final mistake was when she booked all the Magistrates' cars when they were parked in their reserved spaces outside the Court.

[fordperv]

That is sad indeed,I hope the skip in the background got ticketed, most traffic wardens only see in black and white there isn't a grey area so hence no common sense, the local chemists had their van ticketed outside the shop after it had been filled up with medicines to deliver to the elderly and infirm

 

I will say they aren't all bad guys, I have been given wiggle room a few times outside our local Co op which is double yellows.

[DS20]

It's not parked, it's just 'resting'

 

Dead already, anyway, and awaiting cubed.

[overrun]

That certainly is a cunts trick.

 

On the other side of it, a couple of traffic wardens that I see most days, are happy to turn a blind eye to me parking in pay and display spaces, when I am staying in the car.

 

One of them even knocked on the café window and alerted customers to another warden, patrolling near by.

 

Can't say fairer!

[Wilko220]

Yeah some parking wardens are wankers on a power trip, but most of them are just normal people trying to get by doing a low wage job and getting shit loads of abuse from chavs for doing so.

A mate of mine did the job for a few months a while back. You wouldn't believe the vile abuse they get on a daily basis, often for no reason whatsoever.

[brickwall]

\maybe it was logged there fro a while and it was then ticketed. Anyway, parking geezers will go to hell anyway.

[Doctormop]

Is it definitely a parking ticket on the windscreen and not a note saying 'Sorry, I may have nudged the front of your car whilst reversing but couldn't see any damage'

[Junkman]

I think her final mistake was when she booked all the Magistrates' cars when they were parked in their reserved spaces outside the Court.

What's the mistake in that? She should have got an award for that.

[anonymous user]

Is it definitely a parking ticket on the windscreen and not a note saying 'Sorry, I may have nudged the front of your car whilst reversing but couldn't see any damage'

More likely to be a note "someone saw me bump your car and think I'm leaving you my details on this note"

[Jim Bell]

One for the house value worrying rascists:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2515704/Traffic-warden-puts-parking-ticket-AMBULANCE-paramedics-stopped-helped-elderly-patient.html

 

 

 

While they raced to the stroke victim, the warden arrived and put a parking ticket on the emergency vehicle - claiming it was causing a blockage to pedestrians.

 

[Squire_Dawson]

The car is an obstruction. If the owner was in the vicinity waiting for a tow, it would arguably have been harsh, but you can't just dump a car on a public road.

 

I'd like to see more traffic wardens outside the local taxi rank where 3 or 4 taxis park on double yellows restricting traffic on the high street.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

It might have been there for a week? If so it deserves a ticket.

[bub2006]

All depends on circumstances and how long its been there. Just a note about traffic wardens,don't go down Matlock bath on a Sunday on a bike. Plenty of bikes out and shit load of traffic wardens ticketing every bike that stays 10 seconds over the 1hr allowed. And to clarify for junkman it looks like a Mazda 3 but irrelevant as it was made after the 80's!!

[Negative Creep]

The car is an obstruction. If the owner was in the vicinity waiting for a tow, it would arguably have been harsh, but you can't just dump a car on a public road.

 

I'd like to see more traffic wardens outside the local taxi rank where 3 or 4 taxis park on double yellows restricting traffic on the high street.

 

 

That happens near me, expect they park right up to the corner of the junction, blocking the dropped pavement and making the exit completely blind. Tossers. Never once seen a traffic warden around there, although one was kind enough to get me 5 minutes after my time expired in a 1/4 full car park. One of things I'd rather be on the dole than do

[drum]

All depends on circumstances and how long its been there. Just a note about traffic wardens,don't go down Matlock bath on a Sunday on a bike. Plenty of bikes out and shit load of traffic wardens ticketing every bike that stays 10 seconds over the 1hr allowed. And to clarify for junkman it looks like a Mazda 3 but irrelevant as it was made after the 80's!!

Push bikes?!

How do they know who owns the bike?

[Parky]

Is it Deffo a parking ticket? It might be a flyer for a new Kebab shop or a fete at a nearby school.

[lisbon_road]

I guess the point about 'how long it has been there' is valid, though if it wasn't long, it was well out of order - though ordinarily I have some sympathy with traffic wardens as they've a job to do like everyone else.

 

When I worked for Stannah Stairlifts, London was a nightmare as the installers vans had real problems parking.  In the end, we dropped off the installer with a complete stairlift to install.  Sounds OK but it does mean you have to give them stuff like enough wire to do anything - so the surplus ends up being skipped - which is a waste. 

[Rmx]

I drove down that road in the morning, around 9am and the car wasn't there. The picture was taken around 3.30pm.....

[bub2006]

Push bikes?!

How do they know who owns the bike?

Motorbikes i meant!

[alf892]

Tt is not so much the wardens that need a place in hell as the twats that decide the parking restrictions. Although those who fail to exercise discretion should exterminated. So that is most of the London boys and girls targeting trucks gone........

 

I understand and support the notion we can't all just park anywhere and so we need restrictions to allow traffic to flow.

 

BUT

 

More and more councils seem to be imposing restrictions to 'discourage' the use of cars or to impose pay to park schemes.

 

I hate paying to park roadside. If you can park there then that's it..........it is not less of an obstruction if you pay anyway

 

I already own the street and chip in for it's upkeep in various ways.

 

One more thing.......parent and child bays close to the shop. Why FFS?? Stick them over the far side out of the way in big bays so they can learn to WALK to the shop.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

We used to have real problems with these bastards when our street had parking restrictions. You had to pay £25 a year to get a badge to park outside your own house - you could leave a note in a car you had from work and the cunt would still ticket you. It got so bad that we had to literally hound the bitch away from our street, often in tears - not that anyone had any sympathy. A 2 year campaign with the council and parking signs oddly going missing did the trick. Now you can park outside your house free of charge in any car you like.

[Louise2cv]

I only want the parent and child bay to be wider so I can open the doors wide enough to get my giant bottom and a toddler in without bashing other peoples cars. However when I have mentioned this to other parents they want them by the shop so there is less chance of the kidlets running in traffic (which I don't really get but maybe mine aren't in the running off and not listening phase yet). I am finding asda and some other places think the latter is more desirable so there parent child spaces are normal sized and by the entrance, or have one refuge(?) for two spaces (useless if you have kids both sides of the car) so I don't bother using them.

 

Might seem an unnecessary luxury to some, but getting kids into the uber car seats they have to have much longer these days, especially when the kid doesn't want to, does require a fully opened door sometimes, and unlike some I would feel awful if I touched someone else's car in the process.

[Cavcraft]

You can't blame the warden for doing their job when you don't know the full circumstances. It's unlikely the coppers would have let it be left there after a crash, as they'd have had it towed away. It could have been someone pissed who crashed it and did a runner or something.

 

I don't suppose they had to pay twice, but some tosspot years ago parked across 3/4 of the pavement in town in a Range Rover and had been ticketed. I took the ticket off, binned it then in walking past a couple of hours later it had another attached.

[dollywobbler]

Indeed. These poor sods have a horrific job to do. If there are genuine mitigating circumstances - ie the car was unmoveable or the driver had to be taken to hospital - then they can try their luck with the appeals process. Which is pretty robust in my experience. 

 

Aberystwyth had no traffic wardens for some months, as the Police one day decided to no longer fund them. Naturally it took the council absolutely ages to get around to employing some themselves, and the roads were utter chaos during the interim. Naturally as soon as the new wardens were in place, and traffic circulation improved, there were complaints that the wardens were over-zealous. Here's an idea - if you don't want a ticket, don't park like a twat!