[Closed] “Off the road!!” (White Van content)

...using the handbrake to slow down apparently ffs

plenty muppets out there - even "respected professionals"
Two examples from colleagues. ( Nurses)  1) at my work there is a cycle shed and a few feet marked off at the end of the car park to get access to it.  One driver used to always park on this bit using it as a larger space.  she said to me one day " I have to park there, I'm not very good at parking and sure enough all 4 corners of the car had multiple dents.

2) woman who had a lease car ( district nurse)  Both headlamps out, one brake light out, all 4 tyres almost flat "its a lease car I don't care"  the car was dangerous and she could have been banned for the number of offences

On the subject of parking ineptitude . . .

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 TheOfficers said the driver was reported for all the offences, but no arrests were made.

Sounds like pikeys .

Sounds like pikeys .

Except in these circumstances arrest wouldn't be lawful, proportionate or justified, provided the police were happy they had been given sufficient details to allow the service of a court summons.

The van would have been seized and a prohibition notice issued.

my guess is they were just returning from a sub-par tarmacing job to there permanently moored caravan.

At least there was a police presence there to pull them over and charge them for the offences. In these days of “no police presence” it’s nice to see them do something overt and catch someone.

Former colleague couldn’t understand why she’d been given a parking ticket, so we pointed out that they had to provide proof of the offence, so she sent a fairly snotty mail to the council, demanding to see what proof they could possibly have that she’d parked illegally...

The picture that followed was truly a sight to behold, and I think is now in the dictionary, next to the  definition of ‘banged to rights’.

sadly I don’t have the pic in ques....lol just kidding.

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Those are the hatchings they put between parent and child parking spaces.

she put the pic on Facebook and had a dozen or so different people telling her how technicality she could get off the ticket, pointing out faults with the ticket (it was for parking over 2 spaces, technically she hasn’t done that, just.)

We we were less sympathetic, and ripped the piss out of her till she paid it. Her justification for parking there? She couldn’t see any other spaces, wasn’t going to be long (40 minutes) and she only got an hour for lunch so didn’t have time to wait for one to come up.

“Former Colleague” couldn’t face you lot again then

She actually only left last week (offence was over a year ago). There have been many and varied, but no less shocking incidents since... including, but not restricted to, her seeking legal advice on if she could sue the council after she crashed her car, and the road hadn’t been gritted...

2) woman who had a lease car ( district nurse) Both headlamps out, one brake light out, all 4 tyres almost flat “its a lease car I don’t care” the car was dangerous and she could have been banned for the number of offences

As a lease car, it’s likely hat she would be charged for everything needed to put it right. I’d be interested to know who it was leased through, Mercedes, VAG, and Toyota, plus some leasing companies have an inspector from the auction company do a full inspection with video, and a final appraisal with costs the owner will be charged, while other cars from lease companies and Motability get an appraisal done by the logistics drivers who pick them up, and some of that appraisal can have cost implications, but I don’t think the prior owner gets charged, which is a shame, because the condition of some cars we pick up is shameful.