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Tim Adlam
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it is just possible that an anti-terrorist measure was being enforced when
you were moved on ...
Tim A
"Brimstone" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Mark wrote:
> > "Brimstone" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:<[email protected]>...
> >> Has one of these "low-lifes" ever given you a ticket when you've
> >> parked
> >> legally?
> >
> > People who think that laws should be rigorously enforced just because
> > 'they're the law' are among the worst kinds of low-lives. Often we
> > break bogus laws for reasons that any decent person could understand,
> > but low-life jobsworths will ignore in order to give them an excuse to
> > ruin someone's day for no reason other than their own vindictiveness
> > or greed. Justice is far more important than law, but in the UK we
> > have a lot of laws and very little justice.
>
> Yup agree with that.
>
> I actually managed to get my own back one day on a Traffic Warden who was
> failing to show common sense.
>
> I was working as a agency driver for a parcel delivery company. The
regular
> driver had damaged himself and couldn't drive but could carry small
parcels
> and packages.
>
> We had a delivery to make at an office in Buckingham Palace Road, I
stopped
> on double yellow lines outside the front door and behind a special
> designated parking space for a diplomat of some description. The other guy
> took the parcel in. Needless to say the usual TW appeared from out of a
puff
> of smoke and uttered those immortal words, " You can't park here".
>
> I explained why I was there and that the other chap was inside delivering
> the parcel. Needless to say the usual response came back. I then pointed
out
> that I was causing no more obstruction than the car that was legally
parked
> in the bay. That cut no ice either ("he's got permission to be there") so
> she made me move on. So I did, up to the mini-roundabout by Buck House
> turned round and drove back past her,.at 5mph.
>
>
you were moved on ...
Tim A
"Brimstone" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Mark wrote:
> > "Brimstone" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:<[email protected]>...
> >> Has one of these "low-lifes" ever given you a ticket when you've
> >> parked
> >> legally?
> >
> > People who think that laws should be rigorously enforced just because
> > 'they're the law' are among the worst kinds of low-lives. Often we
> > break bogus laws for reasons that any decent person could understand,
> > but low-life jobsworths will ignore in order to give them an excuse to
> > ruin someone's day for no reason other than their own vindictiveness
> > or greed. Justice is far more important than law, but in the UK we
> > have a lot of laws and very little justice.
>
> Yup agree with that.
>
> I actually managed to get my own back one day on a Traffic Warden who was
> failing to show common sense.
>
> I was working as a agency driver for a parcel delivery company. The
regular
> driver had damaged himself and couldn't drive but could carry small
parcels
> and packages.
>
> We had a delivery to make at an office in Buckingham Palace Road, I
stopped
> on double yellow lines outside the front door and behind a special
> designated parking space for a diplomat of some description. The other guy
> took the parcel in. Needless to say the usual TW appeared from out of a
puff
> of smoke and uttered those immortal words, " You can't park here".
>
> I explained why I was there and that the other chap was inside delivering
> the parcel. Needless to say the usual response came back. I then pointed
out
> that I was causing no more obstruction than the car that was legally
parked
> in the bay. That cut no ice either ("he's got permission to be there") so
> she made me move on. So I did, up to the mini-roundabout by Buck House
> turned round and drove back past her,.at 5mph.
>
>