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OT,sorry, but...
I arrived at work at 7:25 this morning, parked out on the street as I'm off to an assessment at 9:00. Thought I would pop down at 8 am when the parking restrictions start and put an hour's permit on the car from the meter.
at 08:23 I sudenly remember my car is outside.
We are on the next "block" to the traffic warden's base.
I ran down the stairs and out into the street and there's on of the City's hardcore elite parking enforcement warriors, standing right next to my Cadillac...
So I sprint down the street, visions of the £70 fine ass-ginding its way out of my bank account
"Waaaaaiiiit up - I'm buying a permit for it" "This yo ka zir?" "Yeah, I'm just getting a permit" "Iz very nize ka zir" "Erm, yeah, thanks" "How much ka like ziz kozt zir?" "I paid just under £2K for it" "No need to hurry, I give you another 5 minutes anyway for a very nice ka" "thanks" "I think this kind of ka is not in my computa" "Does that mean you can't write a ticket for it?" "No (hah hah ha hah hah ha)" "Oh well, there's the permit paid for" "Have a nize day zir" "Yeah, you too"
this is not how conversations with traffic wardens go
Am I in a coma? Is this a parallel universe?
Have rumours of a traffic warden retraining in customer service skillZorZ become true?
** pleaze note. I have reproduced the guys accent as part of an amusing anecdote and to provide a more vivid picture of my day not in any way to belittle or pish take the guy's ethnicity. ** before anyone starts.
Anyway, totally not retro but I just had to share this bizarre motoring event.
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Last Edit: May 13, 2008 7:58:46 GMT by akku
1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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rysz
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Doing better than me with the Nottingham Traffic Nazi's Akku. A few years ago, one raced me down the street and slapped the ticket on the of my pug as I was trying to pull away! Rysz.
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My mates a traffic warden in chelmsford, he's evil, but he was evil anyway, he once took a shotgun off an armed robber and bashed him with it when he worked in a petrol station, he's always lamenting the fact that no one has tried to attack him for giving them a ticket yet. :S
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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Must be the weather
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rysz
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Grey and windy here in Nottingham this morning, just think that he must have sown his oats before coming to work! ;D
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markbognor
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I think we are missing an important part of this,
"I think this kind of ka is not in my computa" "Does that mean you can't write a ticket for it?" "No (hah hah ha hah hah ha)"
So, buy a weird/unusual car = park where you like.
Surely they just issue a ticket to the regestration number, but do they still need full details of make and model to issue the ticket legally?
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May 13, 2008 10:10:09 GMT
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The ticket is issued to a registration, but they have to record the make/model, i would guess for some form of error-checking. However I'd imagine there's some sort of 'other' box to tick, to stop everyone with a slightly odd car taking the badges off and parking where the heck they like. I once got a ticket for a bug I'd parked in a carpark, not realising they'd changed the charging hours to 24/7. It was down as a Volkswagon (GRR!) Beetle (only the new ones were officially Beetles), and he'd swapped the entire registration around to make a 1965 car into a 1985 one! I carefully filed it in the carpark bin and went on my way
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Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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May 13, 2008 10:26:26 GMT
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"Does that mean you can't write a ticket for it?" "No (hah hah ha hah hah ha)"
That means no, he CAN write a ticket for it, park where you like in chelmsford when it raining, the handheld computers they use are not waterproof so they are not allowed out in the rain, i dunno if that applies anywhere else though.
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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qwerty
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May 13, 2008 10:26:52 GMT
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The details of a car can be entered manually on some of the hand helds. If not, I know that in Newcastle the officers carry tickets that they car hand write out if the car isn't on the computer.
Contrary to popular belief there are some decent Traffic wardens (can you tell which dept. of the concil I work for??)
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May 13, 2008 10:35:20 GMT
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(can you tell which dept. of the concil I work for??) So that's why you have the free time to make little hot rods out of juice cartons *n
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Top grammar tips! Bought = purchased. Brought = relocated Lose = misplace/opposite of win. Loose = your mum
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qwerty
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May 13, 2008 10:42:56 GMT
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;D ;D ;D
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May 13, 2008 10:56:20 GMT
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astounding behaviour from a TW maybe he thought the Caddy was Bernard Mannings ;D on the whole, i find traffic wardens to be fair reasonable people, but theres a few with a chip on their shoulder. The Council now run parking in Durham City ( on contract on NCP, and NCP seem to employ fools), they can only issue tickets for not displaying a valid ticket, while in a parking bay, if you park on double-yellow lines, they cant touch you, thats a politzi matter.
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Someone just shot the elephant in the room.
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May 13, 2008 11:06:16 GMT
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Indeed, I took it to mean he could still ticket me. I was just having a joke with the fella cos he seemed like a nice guy.
On the same couple of streets I have had issues with the traffic wardens.
1. one of my guys got a ticket off a warden in a "no parking except loading and unloading" area. he was unloading a load of kit. The hath was open, the building door propped open and he had the hazards on, as he came out to gett he next load he saw the yellow baggie on the screen and the warden walking away. "Oh, it wasn't sufficiently obvous that you were unloading..." "I've issued it now, nothing I can do..."
2. A visitor came back to his car to find the warden next to it doing a countdown with the ticket machine poised and ready. 6 feet away he saw the guy press the "print a ticket" button...
3. A curtainside truck was unloading like 10 pallets of stuff. Traffic warden ticketed it because it had been "too long" unloading.
4. a wrokmate saw a bunch of wardens who were egging each other on to ticket some guys car (even though it was legally parked) because the guy always blows his top in an amusing fashion and they needed a laugh.
5. Their ability to speak no English apart from "I give ticket". "No speak English. You phone number on ticket."
etc.
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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bortaf
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May 13, 2008 11:30:51 GMT
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Loading unloading spaces are for comercial vehicals only as far as I know so unloading or not a car will get a ticket? Loading areas also have a time limit. Can't moan if they cant talk english perhaps some of the lazy fecking english dole scroungers should get off their lazy arses and take the job? no thought not cos it's not a job we english like is it. In the last round of jobs in the dole office my son went to an interveiw for a TW there where 10 jobs going, 100 people applyed, he was one of the only 2 english people who botherd to apply. I've allways found the best thing to do is ask for a ticket, i usually say "yeh mate me givnoer is an , allways sending me to places i can't park and then moaning about the tickets i get so make sure you give me a ticket to teach the old fart a lesson" asking for a ticket seems to scare the curse word out of em and the walk away seriously done it hundreds of times in the west end when i was multi dropping round there ;D
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Last Edit: May 13, 2008 11:32:52 GMT by bortaf
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May 13, 2008 11:40:07 GMT
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Happy days AK the sun is shining and you had an understanding traffic warden, life is good!
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Sierra - here we go again! He has an illness, it's not his fault.
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May 13, 2008 11:42:18 GMT
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I appreciate that English is not everybody's first language. I think its a poor show if our council genuinely hires people into a customer facing role with no English. I suspect that "I speak no english" is often a lie...
99% of the time they don't bat an eye to us loading and unloading from cars. I undertand that the comerical vehicles only ones are marked differently to usual ones? Dunno, I do know theres one set of double yellows we need an extra permit to load / unload on and they were happy to issue that permit to unload from private cars.
Also the "I didn't see you were unloading" response suggests its OK to unload from a car there.
I do't see any point in getting arzey with them like some people do. That just gets you picked on like the guy who blows up. I am probably in a minority that think they are actually *useful* - hell, its much easier to park now they have the wardens enforcing the rules and the meters there.
I just find that *some* of them are on a bit of a mission. And our part of town has a bit of a rep now for overzealous enforcement.
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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tri
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May 13, 2008 13:03:12 GMT
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Must be the weather. Similar thing today with me, was parked outside the barbers (as there was NOWHERE in the whole stinking town to park), come out n theres a ticket under my windscreen wiper, had a bad feeling the whole time I was in there. Noticed it was white, not yellow. Apparently they have a ticket now which is a caution, which basically says - you should have a £30 fine, and if it happens again you will have. Good day really, new 6.5" speakers (which are going to require some modification to get in my footwell) for £25, new haircut, and a new outlook on traffic wardens
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I forgot how to retro...
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May 13, 2008 14:01:56 GMT
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Sounds like he has a pretty stylish accent. I wonder if I could pick that up.
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May 13, 2008 14:13:59 GMT
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Don't expect to get away with a ticket in Rochdale, Its classed as a major crime here (along with murder,rape & child stealing). The Bas***ds round here drive around in Kubelwagens and will tow you away at the drop of a peaked "SS" hat (high ranking wardens only) using their latest Tiger Tank tow truck .....bunch of Na** bast**ds. I'll have to go I have used up all my **** for this week.
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qwerty
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May 13, 2008 14:34:44 GMT
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I think its the kind of Job where you'll get a few people with power complexes...... a lot of people ask questions about TW's:
So in Newcastle if you get tickited by a Council Enforcement officer:
They are not working on Commision They are not well paid They will not tow your vehicle away They will not clamp your vehicle.
Towing and CLamping is more police/Private companies/DVLA. Always check that the details on the ticket are correct, REG, Vehicle Make and Model, Time ticket issued and most importantly that the Price is written in a legible manner in the correct boxes any of them being wrong is classed as a void ticket, And always appeal the decision. It costs you nowt but a few minutes!!
*edit* Model doesn't play as big a role.
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Last Edit: May 13, 2008 14:35:50 GMT by qwerty
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