Traffic Wardens with Guns..

[Neraida]

So, the council are going to be able to employ their traffic wardens to issue £100 fines for minor driving offences.. I'm wondering what next.. Lollypop persons with powers of arrest?

Does anybody else immediately think "stealth taxes"?

Please no posts about how "If you don't do anything wrong, it wont affect you"
I KNOW, I KNOW!!!


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[Little_Russel]

If you don't do anything wrong, it won't affect you.

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[sailorman]

in our local dump (sorry town) the hertfordshire plod is with-drawing the wardens & leaving the town council to sort it out . the shop keepers are highly delighted as it may take 6 mths to replace them but worried whos to take over

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[Robin]

I waited 3hrs this morning for the police to call and get a 'special case' a,,,,,,e moved who was blocking access to our house, he just got a 'polite' warning despite being a serial offender. Mind you I have a feeling he is Albanian so I imagine he has special rights. I had no polite warning from the camera for doing 38mph in a 30mph country zone at 5am on a winter Sunday though, just hand over a donation to the funds or else. An elderly friend says she is considering rowing out to sea and returning as an asylum seeker (fleeing a hostile government!), reckons it will be much better than living on her pension.

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[petery]

Having had many run-ins with Traffic Wardens when I lived in Lambeth - although we called it South Bank to sound posher - I believe they had two days training and then were let loose. I think the only selection test involved checking that they were breathing.

As a disabled driver at the time, I managed to get every ticket rescinded on appeal because they didn't know the law!!

God help us all if the same calibre of Warden can issue tickets for other motoring infringements.

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[charles_reed]

There - he\'s said it

Don't know what traffic wardens have to do with sailing, but they kept on leaving tickets for me to contribute to their slush fund despite having a valid parking ticket - apparently they only expect to see them on the dashboard and I have a transparent pocket on the top port corner windscreen.

The last letter I got, letting me off the fine, told me it was my responsibility to ensure he could see it - I shall in future charge them for my time and trouble in appealing against their incompetence.

So you don't have to do anything wrong to be discommoded by these KGB-manque "special agents".

reminds me of what the citoyens of Niort did to the Food Standards inspector who was collecting details of law-breaking cheese-vendors in the marché.
They removed his trousers and, mounted on a very hairy telegraph pole, ran him out of town.

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[sailorman]

Re: There - he\'s said it

lets have a revolution!!!!!.
i think that i might be able to make a quillotine, just a couple of "classic" masts + the iron centre plate (slightly sharpened) +main sheet tackle c/w snapschackle & release pennant Oh + a basket. can any forumites suggest sutable baskets!.

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[ccscott49]

Re: There - he\'s said it

dont sharpen it, blunt hurts more!

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[Neraida]

Re: There - he\'s said it

VIVE LA REVOLUTION!!

Who's first against the wall??

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[Dave1258]

I wonder if a traffic cop pointed his "gun" into the sky,....if a drunken airliner pilot or sky marshall would return fire!!!!! /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[Johnjo]

Its just one thing after another with this bunch of dipsticks, in our "so called government" !
They are really pissing me off !........

Bloody speed cameras around every bend in the road ! now some department of whatever is trying to bring in another tax on us boaties, tax tax tax thats all they can think about,

Suppose someones got to pay for for all the bombs and other weaponry dumped on Saddam !
My heads beginning to hurt, think I better go for a lie down !....


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[sailorman]

Re: There - he\'s said it

thats alright in theory, but were not aloud to have guns anymore. as its only the bridies & criminals who have them we would we have to advertise for help or perhaps the geezer who shot ray davis could be enlisted.

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[charles_reed]

The trouble is

they've made the lamp posts too high nowadays.

Very sobering for your average elected politician, the thought of a little neck-stretching if he irritates his constituents too much.

Direct political action they call it - favourite in France. It would also give the lie to accusations of political apathy.

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[milltech]

How can you not "do something wrong" in a big box junction? A one or two car box OK, but if you waited for a big box junction to be clear traffic would be backed up to doomsday.

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[steve_cronin]

So long as the exit from the box is clear when you enter it you're OK. Your complete track through the box needn't be clear so long as there is a clear space at the exit point.

People who claim that it is OK to stop in the box only when turning right are not correct at all. The rule is "Do not ENTER the box unless your EXIT is clear" There IS'NT and NEVER HAS BEEN a rule banning STOPPING in a box.

Enter the box, have a picnic in the box, wash your car in the box BUT, NO NOT ENTER THE BOX UNLESS YOUR EXIT IS CLEAR is the only rule there has ever been. That way when the oncoming traffic clears you can complete the manoevre. Perfectly simple and it works. Incidentally, should your exit block by oncoming left turning traffic, that isn't your problem.

Expect more draconian anti-motorist measures, as I type Brother Ken has just been re-admitted to the Labour Party

Steve Cronin

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[longjohnsilver]

I bet the traffic gestapo won't see it that way. Will be interesting to see what right of appeal the down trodden motorist will have, will the TG be issued with cameras to provide evidence of offence having been committed. Also will they be stopping on the spot or will fine turn up in the post weeks afterwards, well after we've even forgotten we were even there.

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[steve_cronin]

If they didn't witness (& FILM?) you entering the box when your exit road was full back to the edge of it then the only way they could ensure a conviction would be to pervert the course of justice by lieing.

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