[David9694]

A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don’t quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes. 

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[chrisonabike]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Those blocks bear the English flag – they can’t possibly be moved now. 

This country needs more patriotic bollards! To keep out those violent migrants from the continent, the (checks notes) internal combustion engines! Created, note – by Germans! – Rudolf Diesel and er… Dr. Petrol! Anyway good on the locals for er… patriotically defending this once green and pleasant land!

[bikes]

“working hard to take care of
“working hard to take care of the green space.” By driving on it?!

[David9694]

Those blocks bear the English

Those blocks bear the English flag – they can’t possibly be moved now. 

[Jogle]

Calls to remove bollards amid
[b]Calls to remove bollards amid fly-tipping row[/b]

Here’s a new one. They weren’t parking on land without permission, they were stopping fly tipping

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9d8zgn71jo

[David9694]

Can’t so far see anything

Can’t so far see anything else availability-wise on our side.

[David9694]

Wow, are we doing this for

Wow, are we doing this for real? Is this a first for the UK? 

Oxford congestion charge: fines ‘grace period’ announced

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/25563863.oxford-congestion-charge-fines-grace-period-announced/

sorry wjts you made a comment about this story  when I was clearing up my occasional duplicate/ triplicate posts

[David9694]

Cash cow latest:

Cash cow latest:

Lincolnshire’s parking enforcement services lost more than £300,000 in a year

It cost far more to issue tickets than they brought in last year

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln-news/warning-over-changes-parking-fines-10572174?int_source=nba

[David9694]

Hmm, ANPR car park with 24h

Hmm, ANPR car park with 24h Evri lockers in it, with a 10-minute grace period – there is a bit of muddled thinking going on here.  But what drew me to this story is this little bit of carbrain 

Evri users slapped with outrageous £100 fines at The Range car park

One angry customer got a £100 ticket for going TWO SECONDS over the ‘grace period’ allowed by the private parking firm

“I was using the post lockers as a number of people do,” she said “I can only assume Parkingeye don’t realise the post lockers are there. I have appealed, as how else are you supposed to use the lockers?”

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/evri-users-slapped-outrageous-100-10591130

[andystow]

Ordered. I’ve listened to

Ordered. I’ve listened to those guys for a long time.

I don’t know if this link will work in the UK, but I encourage you to buy from an independent bookseller if you can, rather than Amazon.

[David9694]

Life After Cars – I believe

Life After Cars – I believe out today – anyone purchased? 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-After-Cars-Ourselves-Automobile-ebook/dp/B0DTN9WM7R

[Mr Blackbird]

I think there is a going
I think there is a growing realisation among business and the public of the damage caused by Brexit.
My hope is that labour will continue to improve our trading relationships with Europe and that the shortcomings of Reform and Farage will be exposed as they come under more scrutiny.
I can’t see us rejoining Europe in the near future. For one thing the EU govts have better things to do with their time.

[stonojnr]

Tipped manure trailer causes
Tipped manure trailer causes traffic stink https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/25559709.manure-filled-trailer-tips-bury-st-edmunds-near-a14/

[David9694]

Porsch drivers and their
Porsch drivers and their problems –

Christian Wolstencroft said he was in the car park of the OK Diner browsing the menu when he had to leave and was unable to dine in as planned.
Mr Wolstencroft, who visited the restaurant [car park, for 17 minutes] on September 30, said he finds it “concerning” that customers who may need to leave the premises, or “simply exercise their liberty to change their mind”, may find themselves “slammed with a £100 penalty”.

“The fact is that OK Diners are located, in my experience, in the middle of nowhere, next to a petrol station on a dual carriageway. “Somewhere you wouldn’t dream there would be strict parking regimes.

Dafydd Lawrie, the director of OK Diner, said they had experienced “major issues” with parking from non-customers at the site, which had resulted in restrictions being put in place in April 2024.

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/25551621.porsche-driver-slams-leominster-ok-diner-parking-fine/

[David9694]

Surface duly scratched, then.

Surface duly scratched, then. 
 

[Rendel Harris]

Not sure if this should go in

Not sure if this should go in this section or “favourite funny”; as it’s causing problems for drivers, albeit in an extremely funny way, I’ll put it here.

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