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Jonnycab
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Ridiculous motoring fines
« on: Dec 1st, 2006, 2:05am » |
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In 1987, I was fined £30 by a beat copper because I parked outside a bookshop & the rear of my Cortina estate was over-hanging the pavement....obstruction to pedestrians.... 
Three months later I was fined £40.00 & three ponts (at 11.30 pm) because my rear wheels were on the end of a Zig-Zag outside Barclays Bank in Billericay when I stopped so my girlfriend could go to the cashpoint ......Cost me more than she took out 
And I got 3 points & a £60.00 fine for doing fifty when going into the roadworks on the A12 at Witham three years ago, at 3.00am .............
Roadworks...& the limit was 40mph (to protect workers, fair enough)....but it was the first camera of many in a 6 mile stretch.......& there weren't any workers repairing the carriageway at that time of the morning 
Oh well...day or night....speed cameras don't discriminate......
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Re: Ridiculous motoring fines
« Reply #1 on: Dec 1st, 2006, 10:28am » |
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Mmmm, yeah, my heart bleeds, but think of all them hundreds of times you parked illegally for laziness sake .......... or hit the Ton on a quiet stretch, and you DIDN'T get nabbed.
Que Sera, as they say in Poland
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Jonnycab
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Re: Ridiculous motoring fines
« Reply #2 on: Dec 1st, 2006, 3:06pm » |
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I wasn't looking for sympathy...just seeing if anyone else had been fined for commiting such trivial offences.
I mean....cars park on kerbs all the time but never get fined, & how often do you see cars parked on zig-zag lines, but never seem to have tickets slapped on them. 
I suppose I could have gone to court with the speed camera one & argued that there was no one working at on the roadworks at the time....but probably would have lost & ended with an even bigger fine .....took it on the chin, as they say
Just one more I've remembered.....Was taking some people to the V festival in Chelmsford a few years back & was stuck in traffic going into the venue. We hadn't moved for at least five minutes, so the pessengers said they'll jump out here & walk the rest of the way. Fair enough I suppose.
Next thing I know, a bike cop is issuing me with a £40 fine for stopping on a temporary clearway ...I explained that I, & the cars in front & behind hadn't moved for ages.....
He explained because the passengers had got out then I must have had to stop on a clearway & broken highway law blah blah .....jobsworth
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Re: Ridiculous motoring fines
« Reply #3 on: Dec 1st, 2006, 7:39pm » |
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I'd have gone to court with that one!
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Re: Ridiculous motoring fines
« Reply #4 on: Dec 1st, 2006, 9:18pm » |
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And I'd have been tempted to give him a dry slap too. What an idiot
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Re: Ridiculous motoring fines
« Reply #5 on: Dec 1st, 2006, 10:12pm » |
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zig zags are a big no no, they are there for crossings, most coppers will just move you along if you're parked on the exit, which makes sense, but park on the entrance.....thats another matter. if someone gets run over on the crossing by another car while you're parked on the entrance, the blame is with you. overtaking on zig zags is another fine and 3 points, including overtaking cyclists.
parking on kerbs is another instant fine, unecessary obstruction (unless specific parking bays are marked on the pavement), as is parking on the road but blocking a dropped kerb (normally near junctions), these are 'dropped' for wheelchairs etc and most now have knobbly paving slabs to aid the blind.
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Re: Ridiculous motoring fines
« Reply #6 on: Dec 1st, 2006, 10:16pm » |
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I got a ticket one night at 11:58 for being on a yellow line, from midnight on it was ok to park there, the copper had nothing better to do, however the p*i*k that took the ticket of the screen who also had nothing better to do in the middle of the night cost me the full fine for dragging the payment out!!
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Re: Ridiculous motoring fines
« Reply #7 on: Dec 2nd, 2006, 8:45am » |
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on Dec 1st, 2006, 10:12pm, taliban wrote:| ... blocking a dropped kerb (normally near junctions), these are 'dropped' for wheelchairs etc and most now have knobbly paving slabs to aid the blind. |
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Our council tax money is currently being, erm... well spent(?) doing just this to the kerbs around our way.
Oh, and they are also widening the path on the main road by about 5".
That's great, but its now too narrow for lorries and they've already had to remove one crossing island to accommodate them (another to follow soon I think. And they were only put in a couple of years ago.
I'm not saying its a bad idea or that disabled shouldn't be helped, but I've never seen a blind man or anyone in a wheelchair go up that road 
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Re: Ridiculous motoring fines
« Reply #8 on: Dec 3rd, 2006, 2:51am » |
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on Dec 1st, 2006, 7:39pm, Highlander wrote:| I'd have gone to court with that one! |
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I did look into it
I sent a letter to Essex police, & got a reply saying that as far as they were concerned....the ticket was issued because I stopped in a clearway....if I wanted to challenge it then I could.
My first port of call was the CAB (liberal idiots) who just said...."not sure...but I'd pay the fine & forget about it".
Next saw a solicitor (friend of a friend) who said...."If you are prepared to go all the way, then I'm behind you...but it may well cost you more than the fine"
So paid the £40.00 & forgot about it
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Re: Ridiculous motoring fines
« Reply #9 on: Dec 3rd, 2006, 3:06am » |
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Still ridiculous....
A fellow comrade taxi driver recently got done by a speed camera.
When the ticket came through the post he had 3 options.....
1) Pay £60 & take the 3 points...
2) Go to court...
or..3) Attend a viewing of a 3 hour video on road safety & speed awareness..
Guess which one he plumped for ?
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Re: Ridiculous motoring fines
« Reply #10 on: Dec 3rd, 2006, 3:24am » |
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3? 
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Re: Ridiculous motoring fines
« Reply #11 on: Dec 3rd, 2006, 10:02am » |
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i had a rover 620 which i picked up for £200 (i worked accounts in a dealership for 6 months, plenty of cheap trade-ins, but when i pointed out the "expenses" irregularities, i was let go ),
it lasted a year, but ECU started playing up. i parked it up round the back of my flat (small lane, parking area, no road name), registered it off-road at that address, until i could find another ECU. Went off on holiday, when i came back, it was gone.
rang the police, they said its been towed because no tax, i said it was offroad !! they said i had to prove that it was, and it was £600 to get it back. i said i want my car back and i will go to court (i had rung the council, who had no record of this "road").
apparently in order to get my car back, i had to pay the £600 first then claim it back, so much for "innocent until proven guilty"
it got crushed.....
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Re: Ridiculous motoring fines
« Reply #12 on: Dec 6th, 2006, 2:59am » |
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Tintin....you declared it off road but it was still towed, even though it was not parked on an official highway.... .....bas**rds....
....maybe a neighbour that you didn't get on with phoned PC plod & told them it had been abandoned ?
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Re: Ridiculous motoring fines
« Reply #13 on: Dec 6th, 2006, 9:37am » |
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on Dec 2nd, 2006, 8:45am, Paul B wrote:
I'm not saying its a bad idea or that disabled shouldn't be helped, but I've never seen a blind man or anyone in a wheelchair go up that road
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Maybe because they couldn't use the road before??
I must admit though I do have a problem with the number of disabled parking spaces that are available nowadays. I live near to Ikea in Warrington and a trip there will show you about 100 disabled spaces.... are there really that many disabled drivers on the roads? and why do they all drive BMW convertibles or Range Rovers? Whatever happened to the blue 3 wheelers?
(perhaps not all the people who use the spaces ARE disabled?)
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Re: Ridiculous motoring fines
« Reply #15 on: Dec 6th, 2006, 10:48pm » |
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'and why do they all drive BMW convertibles or Range Rovers? Whatever happened to the blue 3 wheelers?
(perhaps not all the people who use the spaces ARE disabled?)'
Baz, you're not suggesting disabled people shouldnt be financially successful are you?
' I'm not saying its a bad idea or that disabled shouldn't be helped, but I've never seen a blind man or anyone in a wheelchair go up that road '
Paul, firstly as Baz pointed out, and, you dont have to be in a wheelchair to be disabled; say a woman with a pushchair wants to cross the road, but cars are parked right up to and including the dropped kerb, because of the pushchair she cant fit between the parked cars and why should she, her ability to move freely has been 'disabled' by the pushchair.
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Re: Ridiculous motoring fines
« Reply #16 on: Dec 6th, 2006, 10:59pm » |
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...............so you are suggesting we give her a disabled badge so she can park on the kerb with everyone else?
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Re: Ridiculous motoring fines
« Reply #17 on: Dec 6th, 2006, 11:17pm » |
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nooooooooooo, im suggesting there are many people the dropped kerbs are for.....
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Re: Ridiculous motoring fines
« Reply #18 on: Dec 6th, 2006, 11:21pm » |
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on Dec 6th, 2006, 10:48pm, taliban wrote:| Paul, firstly as Baz pointed out, and, you dont have to be in a wheelchair to be disabled; say a woman with a pushchair wants to cross the road, but cars are parked right up to and including the dropped kerb, because of the pushchair she cant fit between the parked cars and why should she, her ability to move freely has been 'disabled' by the pushchair. |
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She should read her Green Cross Code then she would know its not safe to cross between parked cars!
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on Oct 17th, 2011, 12:35pm, Simmo wrote:| I give up ! Too much for an old boy! |
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Re: Ridiculous motoring fines
« Reply #19 on: Dec 6th, 2006, 11:31pm » |
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