Parking Fine Outside Sainsbury's Local on Lordship Lane

[zeban]

Exactly what I was thinking IV!

[SeanMacGabhann]

IV shoots and scores

[ImpetuousVrouw]

I don't think Simonet is a real person. There is no way anyone can be that much of a sexist, irritating, full of crap pig.

[marigolds]

pearl1 Wrote:

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> If it was just about keeping the bus lane free,

> then seeing the warden there would be enough to

> keep people from parking - he could just move

> people along or warn them they are due a fine for

> parking there and point out parking restricitions

> (which are not always clear whatever anyone

> says!). It is obviously about revenue as they fine

> rather than explain/give warning.

Stoo wrote:

They are always completely clear unless you can't read English. Also I don't think it is a parking wardens job to stand by parking bays and inform ignorant drivers that they can't park there. You don't get warnings because its patently obvious when you are parking illegally.

To clarify Stoo, I can read English. I pulled up there recently when the bus lane was being dug up due to gas mains work. Didn't know there were restrictions = agree with Pearl it is not always clear. At 16.00 went across to Plough DIY asked for something not in stock. Back to car at 16.02 and I had a ticket from the guy who was sitting in his unmarked car outside the Bombay Bicycle Club. His being hidden just seemed so calculating. We all know that the sight of a warden makes you very cautious so had I any inkling he was there then he wouldn't have had the chance to issue another cash penalty ! I wasn't stopping the flow of bus traffic - any bus would have ended up in hole in road had it continued ! It was a clear case of revenue raising.

James Barber says this not an issue but it seems there are a number of us who've been done but not started a thread. I'm all in favour of traffic control but we all know when wardens spot a 'target-hitting hotspot'.

Can't we tip other people off when we have made a mistake without other people getting uptight. Drivers, bus-users, pedestrians and cyclists all make mistakes at some point.

Happy New Year and be careful where you park.

Marigolds

[Simonet]

ImpetuousVrouw Wrote:

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> I don't think Simonet is a real person. There is

> no way anyone can be that much of a sexist,

> irritating, full of crap pig.

Dearie Me! Personal insults...

Which points that I made do you disagree with? I'm intrigued.

[Simonet]

ImpetuousVrouw Wrote:

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> You had 9 points on your licence and want people

> to respect your views on driving?

Yes 3 x 3 Points is terrible I agree for committing the cardinal triumvirate of sins of doing 34 and 35 and 38 in 3 seperate 30mph Limits with only 3 points in the previous 15 years and none since.

Thats 4 x 3 Point speeding fines in over 500,000 miles mostly in/around London!

Why thats ONE-IN-EVERY 125,000 Miles

Disgraceful if you ask me as the average journey was around 10 miles so thats

50,000 Journeys and 4 x 3 Points fines and only 2 incidents.

Thats is ONE PENALTY IN-EVERY 12,500 Journeys !

Shouldn't be on the roads if you ask me.

WHAT UTTER GARBAGE IV AND SEAN and ZEBAN.......LOL

[RosieH]

SHOUTY SHOUTY SHOUTY

[SeanMacGabhann]

this is it - some people try and say some drivers are hard done by for "making mistakes"

Others see it as some drivers believing themselves special - accruing 9 points as somehow being hard done by

nearly 40 in a 30 mph zone - asshole

[huncamunca]

tsk

another stealth tax on the motorist

Another example of the nanny state - we should get out of the Euro as well and re-establish the gold standard. and dont get me started on the asylum seekers

[zeban]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> this is it - some people try and say some drivers

> are hard done by for "making mistakes"

>

> Others see it as some drivers believing themselves

> special - accruing 9 points as somehow being hard

> done by

>

> nearly 40 in a 30 mph zone - asshole

Absolutely.

You choose to drive therefore you choose to take the responsibilty that comes with it. Motoring rules are there for a REASON (sorry I felt the need to shout there). There is a reason why you have to drive 30mph in a 30mph area and not 40, just as there is a reason you shouldn't drink and drive or talk on your mobile and drive. Clearly by your attitude, it sounds like you're pissed off, not sorry. You shouldn't be driving as far as I'm concerned. Bring on your ban, it sounds as though it will come soon anyway.

[Simonet]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> this is it - some people try and say some drivers

> are hard done by for "making mistakes"

>

> Others see it as some drivers believing themselves

> special - accruing 9 points as somehow being hard

> done by

>

> nearly 40 in a 30 mph zone - asshole

"asshole" lol

I realise you are very much one of the Inner Circle on EDF and obviously have, er, "connections" so Sean can say what he likes and be as rude as he likes to someone NOT in his pathetic little clique BUT really any experienced Motorist would consider you the "asshole" Matey as 2 of those Fines were committed on empty roads at 2.00AM/3.00AM respectively and at any given night time,on Motorways in particular, I would say, 50% of Drivers qualify as "assholes" in your eyes.

Its pedants like you that are taking the fun out of Society.

I bet you keep your work rule-book on you at all times and can quote Paragraph 15 on Page 111 Sub-Section 2© if you need to. You must be a right giggle down the Mucky Duck.:)-D

[Simonet]

zeban Wrote:

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> SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > this is it - some people try and say some

> drivers

> > are hard done by for "making mistakes"

> >

> > Others see it as some drivers believing

> themselves

> > special - accruing 9 points as somehow being

> hard

> > done by

> >

> > nearly 40 in a 30 mph zone - asshole

>

> Absolutely.

>

> You choose to drive therefore you choose to take

> the responsibilty that comes with it. Motoring

> rules are there for a REASON (sorry I felt the

> need to shout there). There is a reason why you

> have to drive 30mph in a 30mph area and not 40,

> just as there is a reason you shouldn't drink and

> drive or talk on your mobile and drive. Clearly by

> your attitude, it sounds like you're pissed off,

> not sorry. You shouldn't be driving as far as I'm

> concerned. Bring on your ban, it sounds as though

> it will come soon anyway.

It would help if you exercised the simple expedient of actually reading what someone writes before criticising.

I CLEARLY said that I had received NO points for the last 12 years which was the whole point of my comment that I saw the light !...I saw the Road To Domestos !!

You, obviously, have a thorough knowledge of driving (!) NOT as Points are erased after 3 years and are taken off one's Licence after 4 years. So NO POINTS for 12 years or, roughly, 200,000 Miles which indicates IMPECCABLE DRIVING i.e. a PERFECT score or did you miss that bit ! :))

[Simonet]

In fact Sean, I'm just realising how foolish your comments look because the whole raison d'etre of my comment was to show the TRANSFORMATION since I was given a chance and treated with leniency and given another chance.

The supreme irony here, being presumptious as seeing some of your wet, namby-pampy, Nanny-State views in the past I would PRESUME that you are all for giving people an opportunity to mend their ways and not throw away the key and yet your attitude indicates the contrary or are Motorists a special case in your blinkered World?

[citizenED]

And some people are talking as if the only way to get to get access to that Sainsburys is to park directly outside the store in the five spaces in the Bus Lane when all the adjacent streets have no restrictions and it is possible to park there and like, walk round.

[Simonet]

zeban Wrote:

Clearly by your attitude, it sounds like you're pissed off, not sorry. You shouldn't be driving as far as I'm

concerned. Bring on your ban, it sounds as though it will come soon anyway.

Sorry but I've just reviewed your comments and they are utterly ridiculous.

I'm delighted NOT "pissed off, as you charmingly put it, as the Guy showed flexibility and ignored the rule-book and gave me a final chance which I grabbed with both hands.

Hence 200,000 miles since of perfectly legal driving.

I was demonstrating how refreshing it was that someone used their discretion and I've proved they were 100% right in doing so. How you interpret my gratitude as "pissed off" beggars belief!

Its the complete antithesis of that!

[SeanMacGabhann]

No points in the last 12 years en simonet?

I have you down as someone very young and unlikely to be driving that long so im calling foul on that score

[Simonet]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> No points in the last 12 years en simonet?

>

> I have you down as someone very young and unlikely

> to be driving that long so im calling foul on that

> score

Mon Dieu! I was driving when the old "Devils Corner" was operative i.e. Every driver for themselves and NO traffic lights around Hyde Park Corner, that is before "those that know best" decided we were not able to fend for ourselves and a Traffic Light system was installed around Park Lane and the Roundabout around Hyde Park. That sorted the driving wheat from the chaff.

How long has Trafalgar Square been changed since the old traffic system, where I received my let-off? Many a long day, I should think.

You have me down as "very young" and on another thread TONIGHT they have me down as being "old".

What jolly japes or "Whacko" as Jimmy Edwards used to say. ( Funny how a young 'un knows about Jimmy Edwards innit

) !

[ImpetuousVrouw]

Simonet:

Its pedants like you that are taking the fun out of Society.

Not much fun being mown down by a speeding vehicle.

[Huguenot]

Oooh, did you? I had him down as an aspiring Phil Mitchell ;-)

[Huguenot]

Damn cross-post, if only I'd have waited!

[Simonet]

ImpetuousVrouw Wrote:

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> Not much fun being mown down by a speeding

> vehicle.

Who suggested it was ? Any speeding I have done, for example, as been, invariably, late at night on empty roads or on Motorways when they have been clear.

Near Schools/Hospitals, of course, there should be a strict limit but tonight when I go along The Embankment at 2.00AM with few other cars on the Road or last night when at 5.30AM I had to stop at a Red light on the junctionof Walworth Road/Manor Place when NO-ONE benefitted me being fored to stop as there was no-one else anywhere to be see. THAT is crazy and plain pedantic.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Did you point that out when you passed your test?

[Simonet]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Did you point that out when you passed your test?

That was in 1981 and my Instructor used to say I was an "Ambler Gambler"..

Eh Sean ! How ironical is this M8:) I accused you of being a Pedant and your M8 "IV" has accused me of being the very same thing.

Itsa a funny old game Saint Sean. ( Did you see what I did there) ?:))

[ImpetuousVrouw]

Er, where did I call you a pedant?

I was quoting you. Keep up now Simonet.

[Huguenot]

So I was right with Phil Mitchell age and attitude... Now about the drugs and the guns...?

I don't know whether you can see the flaw in your argument Simonet, but it's the other Phil Mitchell approaching the same junction at 5.00am from a different direction whilst speeding and thinking the roads are clear...