ooh how I hate traffic wardens!

[Guy B]

Advice needed please....

I was working in Farnham this morning and because i'm not based at that office I had to use a public car park. My ticket expired at 12:45 so left the office with about 5 mins until the ticket runs out. Me and my colleague enter the car park at the same time as 2 traffic wardens who were about to start their rounds. I put my laptop in the boot at axactly 12:45 and say to my colleague 'that was lucky, 1 min more and I could have got a ticket' (Traffic warden was too far away to hear this) anyway coleague asks me a question about tomorrow I just start to answer it and this traffic warden goes round to the front of my car. this is how the conversation went:

Me 'ok mate it's mine i'm off now'
TW 'why do i care??'
Me 'excuse me???
TW your ticket is 4 mins out, why are you any different?
Me 'i was just putting my stuff in the boot....
Tw interupts 'and that makes you special does it, i'm well within my rights to give you a ticket'

At this point I get in the car and start the engine and take the ticket out of the window

TW 'drive off if you want but you will get it in the post and the fine will be bigger'
Me 'fine then just give me the ****ing ticket'
TW 'can you put the ticket mack in the window'
me (obviously not thinking) slams the ticket face down on the dash, 'well go on then'
TW I can't, you have put it face down
Me (the penny drops) 'well **** you then pal. you just said you cant give me the ticket'

TW takes out his camera and get a nice picture of the back of my car and shouts 'that all i need'

I am rageing about this, what a ******* jobsworth, he obviousy saw me talking and thought my ticket must be either expired or nearly there, what a ******!!!

Am I right in thinking that as all he has in a picture of my car reversing out of a parking space there is sod all he can do!?

Oh and have i said that he was a complete ******!?

[Skullfudge]

You won't often beat the system mate.

I popped into the bank a couple of months ago parking in a lay bye outside the bank. No queue and was in there 2 minutes max.
Came out & TW was writing out ticket. I said I am just off, he said nothing and slapped the ticket on my screen.
I ripped it off, screwed it up & launched it at him. It bounced off his head and landed in the road.

He then said "right, that has cost you more".
I replied " your problem is that you are getting me confused with someone that gives a f..k" and I drove off.

The following week had the normal parking fine & a further fine for "Littering with Intent" or something stupid.

[Paddybrown23]

Just read this on SS, what a complete bellend! I think I probably would have reversed over him!

[scooby999]

claim he touched you in a private place and he gave you a ticket because you said no lol

[Bazza]

Hi Mate

Post the details on here
http://www.pepipoo.com/

I followed their advice and got off a gatso 36 in a 30 recently.

If anyone know what to do they will.

Regards


Bazza

[gtiteen]

I can recommend pepipoo. Got a ticket on my mums car in a coop a while back, did some searching on the site and we haven't had to pay a penny.

[andy-m]

the boot in an impreza is big enough 2 get a person in there as well as a spade. . . . .
am just sayin

[Chunk]

I hate traffic warden. They are wannabe coppers, they think they runm the roads.

I once saw one ticketing a paramedic car on a call that was stopped on double yellows seeing to an elderly person who was laying on the path.

The warden parked his van on the zigzags on a busy crossing to issue the ticket

I dont have the time of day for them.

Only had 2 tickets myself, and got let off both of them as i was not doing anything wrong.... wasn't even stopped for one of them .... twats

[AndyWRX]

I hate traffic wardens some of them are proper jobs worths with nothing better to do, there is a bad one in rosehill. he sits on a moped down an alley so you cant see him and watches you leave the car and marks down the details etc, then about a minuet or two before the time runs out he starts writting the ticket so on the exact second the time runs out he puts it on the car.

Not sure what happens in your case though mate but id fight it and see what happens.

[Skullfudge]

I have NEVER met anyone who knows a current traffic warden, have you?


Good post Bazza

[Cath]

Their job is mostly commission based so thats half the problem

Originally Posted by andy-m

the boot in an impreza is big enough 2 get a person in there as well as a spade. . . . .
am just sayin

[Lochness]

Friend of mine was issued a ticket as she went to the machine to buy her ticket last week!!! great start to her honeymoon lol

She should get off that. I bloody hope so anyway.

[Chunk]

Do you think traffic wardens would tell people what they do for a living?

It's like telling people you are a pedo or rapist

[Lucky]

or an estate agent..........

We love estate agents Steve

At least you guys are a necessary evil

[Spooky]

Originally Posted by AndyWRX

I hate traffic wardens some of them are proper jobs worths with nothing better to do, there is a bad one in rosehill. he sits on a moped down an alley so you cant see him and watches you leave the car and marks down the details etc, then about a minuet or two before the time runs out he starts writting the ticket so on the exact second the time runs out he puts it on the car.

Not sure what happens in your case though mate but id fight it and see what happens.

Spooky imagines a jobs worth warden, probably wearing a bum bag with a bad case of achne acting all slealthy like sitting on a moped in an alley and lol's

Originally Posted by Lochness

Friend of mine was issued a ticket as she went to the machine to buy her ticket last week!!! great start to her honeymoon lol

I have never heard of anything so rediculous!!

[Lucky]

Originally Posted by worzel

We love estate agents Steve

At least you guys are a necessary evil

I think thats how my mrs thinks of me too!