Get Back at a Traffic Warden

[royplumber]

Next time you see a traffic warden near by asked them very nice and Courtous and loud if you can (best when other people of the public are there)
Ask if they were bullied when they were at school.
I had two go nut's at me with one shouting at me I Love my job ,I love my job the other day.
I replyied you cannot hit the people back who bullied you so doing this job s helps your pain that your feeling that's why you love your job. Jo public loved it i nearly got a clap.

Would anybody like to try this and see what response you get post back

[CatB]

I have a feeling that I may get redded into oblivion for this but I have just moved house and I have a helpful and friendly local traffic warden!

When I moved in I had a big hired van that I had parked on the residents only bit (our whole street is residents only or expensive pay and display parking) and I saw him at the other end of the road. I decided to go and grovel in the hope that he would let me leave the car there for an hour while I got everything inside the building then I could move the van before I took stuff up to the flat.

When I explained what I was doing he not only said that I could leave the van there for a couple of hours while I unloaded properly, he wrote me out a lovely ticket for my car allowing me to park it in the residents parking area for a week until I got time to go and get a proper parking permit (which are issued by the council who are obviously never open when you want them to be!).

I occassionally see him in the mornings and we have a quick chat, he is quite an elderly gentlemen and he obviously still believes in abiding by the spirit of him job rather than ticketing people with a wheel touching the wrong white line. Sadly I think he may be the last one left!

[nickb]

Nowadays people tend to confuse Traffic Wardens with Parking Attendants.

The former are the ones deputised by the police to keep the traffic moving and to issue penalties to motorists infringing the law.

Parking Attendents are the ones working for private companies who go about harrassing innocent people and lurking in doorways in order to hand out tickets to people who pull up outside a shop for 2 minutes to buy the overpriced permits that will allow them to park down the road.

On the whole the former tend to do a good job and by-and-large try to give people the benefit of the doubt.

The latter have mostly replaced them thanks to local councils needing to raise more money to pay for the final-salary pensions of the huge number of people they employ to sit around harrassing council tax payers and for local councillors to go on all-expenses-paid trips to twin cities in exotic locations.

[BJ]

I have an electric scooter (just like a kid's scooter). The other day, two community policemen waited for half-an-hour for me to re-emerge from my kid's school in order to question me on suspicion of driving a vehicle without registration plates. I pointed out that my plimsolls had no registration plates either and for the very same reason. Plimsolls are not a motor vehicle as defined for the purposes of The Road Traffic Act and neither is an electrically powered scooter. Another man-hour of police time sensibly used!
It reminds me of the time I was stopped whilst driving my car in Twickenham and questioned on suspicion that the officer thought I had stopped too quickly! Get you mind round that!
(We need more serious criminals in Twickenham.)

[Fiji Dave]

Originally Posted by royplumber

Next time you see a traffic warden near by asked them very nice and Courtous and loud if you can (best when other people of the public are there)
Ask if they were bullied when they were at school.
I had two go nut's at me with one shouting at me I Love my job ,I love my job the other day.
I replyied you cannot hit the people back who bullied you so doing this job s helps your pain that your feeling that's why you love your job. Jo public loved it i nearly got a clap.

Would anybody like to try this and see what response you get post back

Were they writing you out a ticket at the time?

If they were then were you parked illegally?

If you were parked illegally then I have a question for you. Were you bullied at school? Does bullying the traffic warden/parking attendant help you release the anger at frustration you felt at having been caught "bang to rights"? Did picking on someone who was doing their job make you feel big? Did it make you feel better than them?

They may not have been bullied at school, but they were certainly bullied by you.

If they weren't writing you out a ticket at the time then congratulations in launching into an unprovoked attack on someone doing their job. You must be very proud of yourself.

Acting in a manner designed to embarrass, ridicule and demean someone in the middle of the street infront of others is nothing short of bullying. Encouraging others to do it just makes it worse.

[Andy the Coastie]

Originally Posted by BJ

I have an electric scooter (just like a kid's scooter). The other day, two community policemen waited for half-an-hour for me to re-emerge from my kid's school in order to question me on suspicion of driving a vehicle without registration plates. I pointed out that my plimsolls had no registration plates either and for the very same reason. Plimsolls are not a motor vehicle as defined for the purposes of The Road Traffic Act and neither is an electrically powered scooter. Another man-hour of police time sensibly used!

Do what i do .......... " go and stir fry ya bo***** " .

I've had and still get the problems with these ' jumped up wannabe's ' and having one living 2 doors up from me makes it a pain in the butt.

Don't matter how many times you report them , nothing seems to get done...... but now i'm armed with a camera things will changed.

Did you know that :-

They can't check your tyres and tax ( even when on or off duty ).
They can't tell you where to park outside your own home.

They can dress up in thier uniforms , walk to local school to pick up thier kids to be , walk home and get back into civvies ,,,,,,,, ALL on thier days off .

They sulk like a good one , when some 10 year old ( not mine ) , knocks off his cycle helmet in the town for a laugh after PCO hasserment and tries to have days off work due to stress ............ hope he gets a puncture.

They CAN when off duty, pull thier curtains across at 19:00 when off duty in thier own home, and spy on you or your kids , thinking that they are the on call duty inspector or some SAS man acting as a copper.


YEP, i agree , certainly a waste of tax payers and council tax money.

[Finless]

Don't care what they are called .... or what you call them for that matter they are another pain in the arse for the private motorist.

Because the motorist is treated as the cash cow of every authority there is no common sense used in the issue of tickets. How can you expect anyone to like 'them' (them being them in their official role). I don't doubt that most of them are only doing it because they can't get a real job!

Also, I think my local council are trying to force cars away from the town ..... which is fine IF they would be up front about it. The result is hardly any free parking within miles of the town and traffic bastards that somehow manage to be there 10 mins after the meter runs out.

One Sat last year I drove into Hastings to meet some friends. The idea was that I'd drive home but, being a good boy and never driving once I've had 6 pints of Stella, I left the car behind. I was issued a parckint ticket at 5 past 8 the next morning ..... SUNDAY MORNING FFS!!

Sorry, the aim of these people is no longer to prevent pavement blockage and make life fair for all, it is just to get as much money as possible!!!

[B]

Originally Posted by Fiji Dave

Were they writing you out a ticket at the time?

If they were then were you parked illegally?

If you were parked illegally then I have a question for you. Were you bullied at school? Does bullying the traffic warden/parking attendant help you release the anger at frustration you felt at having been caught "bang to rights"? Did picking on someone who was doing their job make you feel big? Did it make you feel better than them?

They may not have been bullied at school, but they were certainly bullied by you.

If they weren't writing you out a ticket at the time then congratulations in launching into an unprovoked attack on someone doing their job. You must be very proud of yourself.

Acting in a manner designed to embarrass, ridicule and demean someone in the middle of the street infront of others is nothing short of bullying. Encouraging others to do it just makes it worse.

it is actually also a criminal offence under the public order act...

why bully others?? what does that gain??

[Finless]

Originally Posted by The Prices

it is actually also a criminal offence under the public order act...

why bully others?? what does that gain??

It relieves some of the pressure from the cylinder in control of the urge to commit severe physical pain?

[yellowduke]

Personally speaking, from my own confrontation with parking attendants, I really wanted to tear off their arms and beat them to death with the soggy ends. Being a law abiding soul I shouted, I argued, I cajoled, I swore I paid the monstrous fine.

Jim