The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

Falling off scaffolding isn't a 'near miss', it's a reportable incident surely?

 

Not when a 12ft plank is shoved up his arse it's not.

[Parky]

Parkettes DWP hearing tomorrow.

We won. Big time

 

Should be in the grin thread I suppose!

[DodgeRover]

I'm going bald, depressing. I'm not bothered from a fashionable knobber sense.

I just know I'll look a twat bald.

 

Hopefully not like a bald twat though.

 

On an unrelated subject, the old aerial on our roof is clattering about, most irritating.

 

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Time to grow an impressive* beard!

[iainrcz]

Time to grow an impressive* beard!

I'm in the beard scene, if you call a massive unkept ginger thing a beard

 

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[DVee8]

Bloody right it is...

https://rospaworkplacesafety.com/2013/06/04/dummies-guide-to-puwer/

[Tamworthbay]

Time to grow an impressive* beard!

Surely the only time to grow a beard is when you are going to a fancy dress party as a paedophile.

[wuvvum]

Surely the only time to grow a beard is when you are going to a fancy dress party as a paedophile.

No, that's a moustache you're thinking of.

[Parky]

Moustache you say?

 

Shit

[Eddie Honda]

Just finished shovelling a fuckton of snow down the side of the house and knackered. Estate still not clear, but passable and I need to get the motorcycle out from round the back of the house. I've been up since 3.50am and I'm on two wheels to work tomorrow as the kids are finally back at school and therefore can't use the Jizz.

[Tamworthbay]

No, that's a moustache you're thinking of.

Nope it’s beards, especially, but not exclusively ginger ones. I believe the font of all truth that is Viz did an exhaustive study and found that as soon as someone grew a beard beyond 0.1mm they became a kiddy fiddler.

[djim]

Well that's just great.

 

Got a parking ticket from the retail park next to where our local McDonald's is. Popped in a week or so back because folks asked me to - and their car park was (as usual) full, so I pulled round the corner into - what I assumed was still part of the same retail park - and stopped in the usually nigh on empty car park there. Apparently it's *not* part of the same site, and they have CCTV of me leaving the site - therefore feel entitled to slap a £100 fine on me.

 

Fact that it's all done by a computer and a CCTV camera just makes it worse.

...

Not legal advice but most of these penalty charges on private land are not enforceable and can simply be ignored. They will go through a few stages of threatening you with badly written debt recovery letters and threats but it is all bluster as they will not want to go to court due to the cost. I usually ignore them and they go away after a while which is the simplest path I have found. 

 

If you want to appeal, a charge of £100 is excessive and amounts to a penalty charge (which is illegal) as it is disproportionate to any loss suffered (i.e £0). The letters sent and signage are usually not legally binding too and there is a case that you didn't enter into a contract by parking there because you did not see the signage. 

 

You can appeal the charge using the handy template letter here editing it as appropriate. 

http://pcnwp.blend-dns.co.uk/free-letter-templates/private-parking-ticket-appeal-letter-template/

This is probably a better way to go and saves worry. 

 

I really hate these charlatans. Obviously there are cases where parking needs to be restricted but so many of these are a blatant money grab where the signs and letters are all set up to ape official council parking notices and imply that they have some power, where in fact they are just an invoice that you never agreed to.

 

Good luck! 

[DodgeRover]

I think you'll find everything has changed again now, only people with a vehicle registered to a Scottish address can ignore them with impunity, they can and will take you to court

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

It was properly bastard windy last night and in a massively unsurprising turn of events all the zinc fucked off from the apex of my roof, so today I took a brave pill and went up to fix it. I tied a safety line onto the pickups towbar over the roof and wore a harness with a one-way cam thing.... Classic example of all the gear and no idea as I hate heights and normally do everything I can to keep myself as close to the ground as possible...I'm sure that a little bit of pee came out.

Anyway, a sheet and a half of zinc, a load of screws and six tubes of sikaflex later and it's done.

 

 

Back in the '87 hurricane we came home (on top of the third highest point in Essex) and the chimney stack on our ancient house was blowing back and forth, most people would gtf, but not my old man... Up he went and dismantled the fucker. I certainly do not take after him, getting wobbly knees halfway up a ladder!

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Not legal advice but most of these penalty charges on private land are not enforceable and can simply be ignored. They will go through a few stages of threatening you with badly written debt recovery letters and threats but it is all bluster as they will not want to go to court due to the cost. I usually ignore them and they go away after a while which is the simplest path I have found. ....

They are now actually going on to full County Court claims. I'd suggest that ignoring those isn't the most sensible course of action.

[djim]

I think you'll find everything has changed again now, only people with a vehicle registered to a Scottish address can ignore them with impunity, they can and will take you to court

 

 

They are now actually going on to full County Court claims. I'd suggest that ignoring those isn't the most sensible course of action.

 

Ah shit it, sorry for the misinfo. Presumably they can still be appealed against tho?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Ah shit it, sorry for the misinfo. Presumably they can still be appealed against tho?

You're going to have a bit of a struggle convincing a District Judge if you've ignored all the penalty notices and pre-action letters.

[D Spares & Tyres]

You just reply to their first letter with a lie.

 

Sorry I have sold the vehicle to: ( local traveller site )dated the day before the fine

 

Or: sorry I think you have either misread the plate or the vehicle has been cloned. I was at xxxx and I can prove it.

 

They won't bother you again, they are after easy cash. Be polite,literate and preferably ramble a bit

[HH-R]

A place i used to work at always had trouble finding somewhere for the xmas night out...we were never allowed back to the same places again and word obviously spread to other venues because the parties would always get well out of hand and shit would get fucked up.

I used to think this was a bit much, but then years of working at a different place where the xmas party was a quiet meal, two glasses of beer and then hometime left me missing the good ol days of stealing bowling balls from the tenpin alley and bowling them down George street and through the window of Cash Converters.

I've just burst out laughing in the middle of Spoons at that...LOL!

[Cavcraft]

 Be polite,literate and preferably ramble a bit

 

How much does Hairnet charge per hour? Got to be cheaper than a solicitor. If it goes to court appoint toosavvy as barrister, no way is he losing a case.

 

 

*Edit: just seen the literate bit, ignore my response.

[purplebargeken]

^^ Fuck, we could sell tickets to attend. I'd go to watch/listen/wonder.

[Zelandeth]

Sadly it's probably just going to get paid. The possibility of it getting worse, there being further fallout etc or even just further letters on the subject arriving is sufficient to cause major stress.

 

I'm already worried enough that I've probably parked there a dozen times since the date of the "offence" and that there are more of these to follow.

 

I did see and read the signs (see earlier comment about being somewhat obsessive about not breaking rules), the fact that the storefront directly adjacent to the space and the McDonald's 200 yards away weren't both "on site" as part of the same business park. It looks like this is a case of something like a cluster of half a dozen spaces that Carphone Warehouse have decided are theirs and have pointed a camera at.

 

No real grounds for the "you're mistaken, that's not me" line here - the video footage is clear as day (why is that never the case when you want it to be helpful?!?)...and both the car registration and me are easily recognisable.

 

Was out driving briefly yesterday evening and have predictably found myself second guessing myself at my interpretation of every road sign, lane marking and traffic signal. That's going to take months to settle down I reckon. Yay. Haven't got to sleep yet either.

 

Have I mentioned lately that I really miss living 15 miles from the capital of Bloody Nowhere in Scotland? Sooner we can retire back there the bloody better.

 

As for my other grumpy old man moment of the day for yesterday...

 

Finally managed to find my brake pipe flaring kit (which I thought wasn't a bad achievement not having seen it for probably six years and four house moves). Even found the reel of pipe, exactly where I remembered it being in the disaster area of a loft. Could I then find the bloody pipe cutter? Could I hell!

[Tamworthbay]

I think you'll find everything has changed again now, only people with a vehicle registered to a Scottish address can ignore them with impunity, they can and will take you to court

No problem I am sure LP, Kiltox etc wouldn’t mind having a few cars registered at their addresses, let’s face it most of us have a small fleet anyway so no one would notice.

[Kiltox]

I’m unfortunately a non dom Scotsman forced to live in that England

[Talbot]

Sadly it's probably just going to get paid. The possibility of it getting worse, there being further fallout etc or even just further letters on the subject arriving is sufficient to cause major stress.

Have you been to PePiPoo yet? Actual useful advise from a motoring legality forum. They will absolutely be able to tell you if the letter is legal, and if you simply need to send them a reply letter of some sort telling them why they can FRO.

 

Don't ignore it, but the chances of it actually being legally enforceable are vanishingly small. With assistance from that forum I managed to get a completely fucked-up failed dart-charge payment that had escalated all the way to a baliff banging on my front door at 6:00AM reversed all the way back to the £2.50 charge it should have been in the first place.

[alcyonecorporation]

Zelandeth - 

 

It's worth a go. 

The rules have indeed changed, but PPCs have to word their letters very carefully to comply with the law; many don't. 
I got help from a group on Facebook called Fight Your Private Parking Invoice and I had mine cancelled. Cost me a tenner as opposed to the £482084023781 my local shitehawks were demanding. 

The week after someone removed their parking machines with an angle grinder lock, stock and smoking barrel, so they're clearly a well respected and loved enterprise round here. 

[tooSavvy]

.... So then >> anyone need a letter draughting?

 

LoL

 

TS

[beko1987]

My mate kissed the back of a merc on Sunday night...

 

 

The merc in front slammed his anchors on as he hit a deer, poor Gareth was braking, but they were doing 50, and by the time he was braking fully he went smack. Being his dad's company vehicle he was borrowing 'whilst doing some consultancy work' there's an extra layer of admin.

 

I picked him up this morning to bring him into work and we swung past before it gets lifted to grab his stuff out of it. Bonnet latch is still doing its job like a pro!

[Zelandeth]

Have you been to PePiPoo yet? Actual useful advise from a motoring legality forum. They will absolutely be able to tell you if the letter is legal, and if you simply need to send them a reply letter of some sort telling them why they can FRO.

 

Don't ignore it, but the chances of it actually being legally enforceable are vanishingly small. With assistance from that forum I managed to get a completely fucked-up failed dart-charge payment that had escalated all the way to a baliff banging on my front door at 6:00AM reversed all the way back to the £2.50 charge it should have been in the first place.

 

Going to have a look at that this evening.

 

Forcing myself not to look at it for a bit now as I need to concentrate on something else for a couple of hours at least.

 

Thanks for the pointers though.

[oldcars]

Back in the '87 hurricane we came home (on top of the third highest point in Essex) and the chimney stack on our ancient house was blowing back and forth, most people would gtf, but not my old man... Up he went and dismantled the fucker. I certainly do not take after him, getting wobbly knees halfway up a ladder!

 

Is that a sd3 under the tree at 32 sec?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

We won. Big time

 

Should be in the grin thread I suppose!

 

Get in!  Well done.  Well done to all of you.