Transport -
Traffic Wardens 2
A
traffic warden enraged cops by slapping a parking
ticket on their marked van left in a POLICE bay.
The white Ford transit, which is used by the riot
squad, was clearly marked with the word
“police” and had bold blue stripes
running down the side. It also carried a large
Met Police crest and had a police log-book on the
front dashboard. The van was parked outside
London’s Charing Cross police station in a
bay specially reserved for police vehicles. A
police source said, “Quite frankly
you’d have to be from another planet to
mistake it for anything other than a police van.
It makes you wonder where the hell they get some
of these traffic wardens from.”
The warden was working for a private company
acting for Westminster Council. The source added,
“The ticket was given for breaching
Westminster’s traffic code 42 by being
parked in a place designated for police vehicles.
But the van was clearly marked and to make things
worse it was parked right outside the police
station. When the driver got back to the van he
was shocked to see the ticket on his
windscreen.” An appeal against the £50 fine
was lodged. The council was unable to comment -
in other words, it didn't know what it was doing.
A
traffic warden slapped a £30 fine on a taxi by
using a law aimed at HORSE-DRAWN carriages.
Cabbie John Pier was nicked after he left his car
on the rank. He was told the Act demands you stay
with your horse and he had broken the 1847 law by
leaving his ‘carriage’ unattended. The
Act also states you must carry a bale of hay!
Traffic
warden Richard Doy issued a ticket and placed it
on a double-decker funeral bus. The bus was
painted BLACK, parked outside a FUNERAL PARLOUR
and the coffin was being LOADED at the time. The
ticket was later cancelled after complaints to
the police. Doy said, “I did not realise a
funeral was ongoing.”
A
milkman in London’s Soho received 40 tickets
in six months, some as early as 7.20am. How is he
supposed to deliver milk without parking his
float? They’ll be clamping drivers at
traffic lights next.
An
ambulance was given a parking ticket while the
crew helped a wheelchair-bound pensioner from her
flat. A traffic warden issued the £60 fine as
the vehicle waited for its patient on double
yellow lines during Edinburgh's rush-hour. The
paramedics had been sent to a sheltered housing
complex to take the woman to her regular hospital
appointment. Capital Parking Systems who employ
the private parking attendants say the traffic
warden decided the ambulance was not on an
emergency.
A
pet shop owner was left in a stew when a traffic
warden gave one of his rabbits a parking ticket.
Cliff Chamberlain said he watched in shock as the
woman "slammed" the ticket on the
rabbit's hutch in his shop in Eccles, Greater
Manchester. She booked the bunny after Mr
Chamberlain moved a delivery van parked on a
single yellow line before she could issue the
ticket. He said, "She came and tried to give
me the ticket but I said I'd moved the truck so
then she tried to give it a boy who works for me.
He refused as he doesn't even drive. The warden
then slammed it down on the hutch."
Mr Chamberlain, who has run his shop in Liverpool
Road for 33 years, said he had been parked for 15
minutes unloading sand from the truck. He managed
to move the van to a nearby pub car park before
the ticket could be issued. He added, "It's
really ridiculous. I'm fed up and so is the
rabbit - the hutch hasn't even got wheels."
A spokeswoman for Central Parking System, the
private firm which enforces parking laws for
Salford City Council, said it was investigating
the incident. She said, "I think the fine
was intended for the vehicle and not the rabbit
hutch itself. Mr Chamberlain is at liberty to
contest it."
A
disabled war veteran refused to pay a £30
parking fine slapped on his car because he left
his orange badge upside-down. Widower Henry
Wooding who has chronic bronchitis, was parked in
a disabled spot in Chelmsford, Essex. The council
said its rules protect the scheme.
A
hearse was given a parking ticket as it waited to
go to a funeral. The vehicle had been parked on
double yellow lines outside Edinburgh-based
funeral directors McKenzie & Millar when it
got the £60 fine. Bosses at McKenzie &
Miller claimed the hearse had been left
unattended for around five minutes on Monday at
Great Junction Street, Leith, while preparations
were being made to load the coffin into the
vehicle. The parking attendant observed that
there was no activity around the vehicle, no
coffin in the hearse and no activity inside the
shop front of the funeral director's, therefore,
with that information, it was concluded the
hearse was not involved in a funeral.
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