henry d Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 I was picking up my new rifle and decided to park in the loading bay 30yds from the shop instead of the shops car park,as this means a walk up an alley way frequented by alkies. Ten minutes later and I`m back at the car with a ticket from plod :< £30 fixed The reason being"where waiting was prohibited" P.C. Thicky-thick-thick leaves a message on my answer machine saying to contact him.I had already phoned the ticket office and explained why I did what I did,and they said it should be no prob and I must send ticket and copy of receipt. Then P.C.Thicky-thicky-thick-thick phones this morning and says sorry it was a mistake just tear it up :blink: :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markbivvy Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 P.C.Thicky-thicky-thick-thick there,s a few of them about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 Come on, be fair. You park in a restricted area and get a parking ticket..........no surprise. You contact the Ticket Office and explain your reason for parking there and eventually a Police Officer telephones you and tells you to tear up the ticket..............now that is a surprise. You should be very grateful to him, as opposed to calling him PC Thicky, thick. How was he to know why you parked there ? :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browning GTS Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 Come on, be fair. You park in a restricted area and get a parking ticket..........no surprise. You contact the Ticket Office and explain your reason for parking there and eventually a Police Officer telephones you and tells you to tear up the ticket..............now that is a surprise. You should be very grateful to him, as opposed to calling him PC Thicky, thick. How was he to know why you parked there ? True. If you don`t want to do the time, don`t do the crime :blink: :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitebridges Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 Personally I can't stand all this special zoned parking **** and being shoved in to a particular parking area by some void brain planner. Generally the British public have "rolled over and died" on this pathetic situation where if you pull in to town and park you are subjected to extortionate car parking fees and or restriction. Our French cousins would rather die than let this happen and all credit to them. We have all sorts of disputes in Norfolk with ar*** that want to charge people for parking on the queens foreshore for example. Locals in the know just refuse to pay and give the two fingered salute. I have empathy with you henryd you are a red tape victim of something that probably should not have been there in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted January 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 Sorry I forgot to add he put the wrong fixed penalty £30 instead of £60,and as I was loading I don`t see why I should park where I could have been accosted(with a firearm in my hands)by drunks.As I have been stopped and pulled about in the past,just because I wouldn`t give them money for drink,it seemed to be a better option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunganick Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 P.C.Thicky-thicky-thick-thick there,s a few of them about. :blink: :blink: he gets about he was down this way not that long ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markbivvy Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 one started giving my wife the riot act Xmas week, for parking on double yellow lines. i listened for a bit,then he got to the stupid and irresponsible bit, then pointed out she had a disabled sticker in the window.and could he write down his name and number so i could tell the chief constable what a good officer he was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemini Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 Be careful Mark. My wife is disabled and has a blue sticker, so theoretically I can park for 3 hours on a double yellow line. (I’m the registered driver) In practice the police can still tell you to move if you are causing an obstruction, and two years ago I was booked for parking on a meter whilst we took my granddaughter into Birmingham children’s hospital. Apparently in the rush to get into the hospital I had forgotten to put the clock in the window. The time on the ticket showed that the stupid b@stard must have watched me go in as he booked me within minutes of my arrival. I was told that I could appeal against the ticket, but I was most certainly not going to crawl cap in hand to some snotty beaurocrat to plead for forgiveness. Sent them the cheque with a letter telling them what I thought of them instead. B@stards!!!!!!! :< :< :< :< G.M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilishdave Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 Had a good one last year. I was on my way back to North Yorkshire from Shropshire. We set of from a place in the sticks whare it was very foggy. My wife was driving and put the low mounted front fogs on. It was lat and quiet and she forgot to switch the fogs off when it cleard up a bit. (they point at the ground so althogh bright never dazzle on coming trafic). We were on the motorway and got pulled by a police car we had just passed he was quite rude to my wife told her she should not have them on as it was clear which is fair enough then asked her if she new whare the switch was to turn them off (condesending *****). I then took great delight in telling him that his rear left hand light was out. That shut the knobber up. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markbivvy Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 Be careful Mark. My wife is disabled and has a blue sticker, so theoretically I can park for 3 hours on a double yellow line. (I’m the registered driver)In practice the police can still tell you to move if you are causing an obstruction, and two years ago I was booked for parking on a meter whilst we took my granddaughter into Birmingham children’s hospital. Apparently in the rush to get into the hospital I had forgotten to put the clock in the window. The time on the ticket showed that the stupid b@stard must have watched me go in as he booked me within minutes of my arrival. I was told that I could appeal against the ticket, but I was most certainly not going to crawl cap in hand to some snotty beaurocrat to plead for forgiveness. Sent them the cheque with a letter telling them what I thought of them instead. B@stards!!!!!!! :< :< :< :< G.M. harts of gold some of them, (not) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wookie Posted January 22, 2006 Report Share Posted January 22, 2006 £500 million.... That's how much money the Police spend a year doing paperwork (according to the Telegraph, so it must be true!) They've got to make that money back somehow, hence speed cameras and dodgy parking tickets. If people just roll over and play dead because it is easier, then they get the money. I am _sure_ that most officers would rather be actually fighting crime, but it is just a fact that they cannot do that at the moment. I blame the government, but then again, I usually do. In my defence, I didn't vote for them. Wookie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moley61 Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 Sorry I forgot to add he put the wrong fixed penalty £30 instead of £60,and as I was loading I don`t see why I should park where I could have been accosted(with a firearm in my hands)by drunks.As I have been stopped and pulled about in the past,just because I wouldn`t give them money for drink,it seemed to be a better option. I would suggest this is why it's been dropped. PC Thickety Thick filled it in wrong which makes it for all practical purposes unenforcable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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