snoozy traffic wardens (Lounged)

[zephyr]

???? Wrote:

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> want I can tell you the boring stories behind them

> but in both i had NOT broken parking laws - by

> fronting out their demands, appealing and saying

> that I'd go to court in face of threats of

> escalating fines...many people don't. It's

> blackmail.

So did you appeal them?

[PeckhamRose]

Yeah - What He Said.

Meanwhile, over on my motorcycle forum there was a recent story about how one of the motorcyclists had come off his bike in a smack with a 4x4 driver. He wasn't hurt much and then found himself sat waiting for the AA or someone to collect him and his bike, and guess what.

Yep, a traffic warden ticketed his broken bike.

He took a photograph of the scum issuing the ticket and sticking it on his DOWNED MOTORCYCLE ON ITS SIDE, ON THE SIDE OF the ROAD.

He did successfully challenge the fine, but the fact that the scum felt it was acceptable to even consider doing this, makes you wonder.

[Brendan]

Target. Meeting targets. These people should be serving the community not exploiting it.

[peckhamboy]

Does anyone know how the targets work? Do the wardens' "kills" get struck off if they are successfully appealed, or is it just on tickets issued rather than fines collected? Could make quite a difference to their behaviour...

[rifleman harris]

My wife took my late mother in law to Brockwell Lido and parked legally on a yellow as my mother in law was disabled and had a Disabled Badge. When she returned there was a parking ticket. She appealed and received a picture that the warden had taken. Either he got down on bended knee or he was just 3 feet high, but the camera angle made sure that the badge couldn't be seen. To cut a long story short we had to take her to a hearing on a saturday morning at the Haymarket and thankfully the ticket was rescinded. With this; i have to agree with an earlier poster that some wardens are indeed the scum of the earth.