ladywotlunches Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Twice in the last week I've noticed one of our lovely traffic warden cars (the little red one) that zip around trying to ticket anything and everything, parked across a double yellow AND one of the dropped kerbs, with the engine running and the driver reclined right back in the seat having a kip, with his mate next to him grinning inanely.This seems wrong on so many levels! Do you reckon there's any point emailing our lovely councillors about this waste of council tax and danger to pedestrians and traffic in ED? I think not, but I feel better for telling you all... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kford Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 And the unecessary environmetal damage - isn't it a by-law offence to be parked with one's engine running for no good reason? Take a photo/film, post it here. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73195 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Yup. Film it, put it on YouTube, alert local press...The Daily Mail will follow it up within a few days. Simple. Nero Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73203 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladywotlunches Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 >:D<See, I feel better already. Now, I've just got to take a photo and work out how to upload onto this new fangled interweb thingy.... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjaminty Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 I've not seen the red cars .... what make/model are they? On Saturday I stopped off on Melbourne Grove for a swift cuppa with someone for 10 mins.... back wheels ever so slighly on double yellow and wham bam ?60 fine ..... it's like living back in Lambeth again :'( Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73233 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Incentivised traffic wardens = lots of parking fines for the council to waste on shit - absolutely nothing to do with any benefit to you or I. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73255 Share on other sites More sharing options...
giggirl Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 PLEASE take a photo/video and post it here. I'm begging you. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73330 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Would it be illegal to shoot out their tires with a pellet gun? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macroban Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 I can understand the dismay that the wardens were not out of their car collecting revenue, but perhaps this was their scheduled break. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73343 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 I feel sorry for traffic wardens.People park illegally, get fined by people who's job it is to issue tickets to people who park illegally - and for some reason can't seem to understand why. "I only parked there for a minute""I just stopped to use the cashpoint""I'm waiting for someone""I'm only just over the line"etcetcetc Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73345 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Or in mine and my partner's experience:"I'm an on-call midwife responding to an emergency. Hence the signs on the car. Do I really have to pay you ?100 because you obviously can't read and have clamped my car""You have put the ticket over my pay and display ticket.""I was walking to the machine to pay you prick!""Yes this is in fact a legal parking space." Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73355 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeckhamRose Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 I absolutely have NO sympathy for traffic wardens at ALL. They are the scum of the earth. And I don't even own a car. They are second in line of scum only to the managers who control them.Don't hesitate to photo and/or film said wardens breaking laws, wasting time/fuel and our taxes.Email your councillor AND the local community council area you are in AND Southwark Council's Highways Department AND the evil Daily Mail and the South London Press with the photos and film and if you can not get them uploaded tell them you can come in to all their offices with the evidence and THEY can do it.This is a good story.ALSO - at the time you are witnessing the offence, get a friendly looking witness to stand next to you, then tell the wardens to their face that you are going to report them and say out loud:1) the registration number of the vehicle they are in 2) any identification number badge they are wearing 3) the date and timeso that they know you are serious.This works with bad company car drivers too. The other day I was nearly knocked off my bike by a large van and as I inevitably -without hurrying- caught him up at the lights, a woman in her car was next to me so I shouted at the van driver his registration number and the name and phone number of his company and told him I would be reporting him. To my utter surprise the woman in the car next to me said she would do so too, because he'd nearly got her before he nearly got me!Got home, and had forgotten the number. It's not easy remembering phone numbers and I was on a motorcycle so could not write it down easily. I hope the woman did though and even if she did not the van driver looked pale which was pretty rewarding to see.Back to topic: Absolutely get these traffic wardens in trouble and I hope they all lose their jobs and I hope I am wrong about there not being a hell and heaven and they all go to hell.Apart from this I have absolutely no opinions on the matter at all.I'll get me coat. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73356 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 I still feel sorry for traffic wardens.Perhaps if the general public didn't constantly lie to them in an effort to avoid getting fined, they wouldn't have to assume that the general public are liars who lie in order to avoid getting fined.No-one treats them with any respect. Why should they return the favour? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeckhamRose Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Because traffic wardens are the scum of the earth who deserve no respect.That's why. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Exactly right (*bob*)! Some of them probably are little power crazed arseholes, but most of them are just people who needed a job, and got a job.Calling them scum of the earth is bang out of order. Do you call bin men smelly scummers because they deal with your rubbish? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73370 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 I agree that they are necessary but the fact that they get paid commission on the amount of fines they dish out flies in the face of all reason. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 If you've parked on, say, a double yellow, does it matter if the warden who ticketed your motor gets paid a commission or not?I don't see why it does. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73380 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeckhamRose Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Nope, I call them Sir and I thank them for the very important socially useful job they do. And I always say hello to them and smile a friendly smile.Traffic wardens are not doing a socially useful job.Keef Wrote:Do you call bin men smelly scummers because> they deal with your rubbish? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73381 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 See my statements above *Bob*. In all these instances we were ticketed illegally because a traffic warden was trying to make a buck. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Brendan Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> See my statements above *Bob*. In all these> instances we were ticketed illegally because a> traffic warden was trying to make a buck.I saw the statements above. Did you have to pay any of the fines? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73384 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 2 of them yes. the others took so long and we were messed around so much trying to get them withdrawn that I sometimes felt it wasn't worth it. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blinder999 Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Brendan Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Or in mine and my partner's experience:> > "I'm an on-call midwife responding to an> emergency. Hence the signs on the car. Do I really> have to pay you ?100 because you obviously can't> read and have clamped my car"> > "You have put the ticket over my pay and display> ticket."> > "I was walking to the machine to pay you prick!"> > "Yes this is in fact a legal parking space."admittedly, I'm not an on-call midwife, but I've yet to experience any of these situations, and I've been driving for a long time. And illegally parked cars annoy me and IMO should be ticketed. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73389 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Brendan Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> 2 of them yes. the others took so long and we were> messed around so much trying to get them withdrawn> that I sometimes felt it wasn't worth it.That's a crappy experience, Brendan - and I don't deny it would cheese you off no end.But I would suggest that the majority of the population (me included) have mostly only ever been deservedly ticketed. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73391 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 The situation with my fianc? (the midwife) when she was on call was particularly annoying as she was clamped and then the attendant who had got her clamped just refused to admit that she was displaying her sticker. Therefore his word against hers and bugger the fact that she is someone serving his community and responding to a medical emergency. Just so long as he gets his readies. Scum if you ask me. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73392 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 You're probably right though *Bob*. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/2466-snoozy-traffic-wardens-lounged/#findComment-73394 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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