[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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[David9694]

There were no signs to say

There were no signs to say drive on the left-hand side of the road – I’ve discovered another little-known rule. And now I am going to tell the whole of the south west how stupid I am. 

[David9694]

Wow: feels like I’m missing

Wow: feels like I’m missing the point with this. 

[hawkinspeter]

That’s just round the corner

That’s just round the corner from me.

I think they started enforcing the rules when the affordable flats were built as before that it was just a car park with some very untidy recycling bins at one end. The flats are suspended, so there’s a bunch of parking bays underneath that I think are for use by the residents and then bays round the outside that are for visitors.

[David9694]

“I was handed a parking

“I was handed a parking ticket for a little-known rule”

“This is actually a pitfall lots of people have accidentally fallen into”

Throughout my two decades of driving, I have tried to follow the rules down to a tee. Never parking too close to corners, always avoiding double yellow lines and staying away from dropped pavements – even if I’m only dashing out for a few minutes. 

And because I’m such a stickler for the rules, I have almost never been slapped with a parking ticket before. All that changed this weekend.

I had parked my vehicle in Bristol city council’s free St George’s car park. This location has bays but there are also spaces to leave your vehicle in other unmarked locations that are not blocking people. 

All the bays were full, so I found a spot that was not obstructing anyone else. There were no road markings or signs saying ‘please park in bays’, so I had no idea I was breaking any rules.

But then I unfolded the ticket and saw all the information and realised that there is a little-known rule that you have to park in bays at car parks even if that is not stated anywhere in the vicinity.

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/news-opinion/i-handed-parking-ticket-little-8147459?

[Hirsute]

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23319268.suffolk-heater-fail-leaves-audi-driver-without-100-000-car/

Minus first world problems

[David9694]

We’re going to need a bigger

We’re going to need a bigger smaller boat 

[David9694]

I arrived at the car park and

I arrived at the car park and I happened to go out by the means one is supposed to come in. An employee of the supermarket hailed me – “hey, Jack” he shouted, “where do you think you are going?”, that is at least the just of what he said.  But that’s what I want to ask you, here tonight, “where do you think you’re going?”

[mattw]

It’s a camera Tesco car park,

It’s a camera Tesco car park, so a charge not a fine.

Strangely the photo shows her either driving out of the entrance, or reversing in that way.

[David9694]

Mum slapped with £100 parking

Mum slapped with £100 parking fine for ‘simple error’ says ‘I’m not paying a penny’

Genuine – check

law abiding  – check

ready to go to court – check

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/mum-slapped-100-parking-fine-26224661

[David9694]

yes, welcome to our world,

yes, welcome to our world, drivers

Police promise to bring brazen car cannibals ‘to justice’ after crime sweeps Birmingham

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/police-promise-bring-brazen-car-26236923

[David9694]

Finally, the capacity of the

Finally, the capacity of the enforcement mechanism begins to catch up to the volume of offending. 

[ktache]

Otherwise law abiding…

Otherwise law abiding motorists…

[Hirsute]

War on Motorists taken to new

War on Motorists taken to new heights – A total of 443,609 offences have been recorded by the Met since last April – up 64 per cent on the 270,458 in the same period the previous year.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/speeding-motorists-london-numbers-rise-speed-cameras-tfl-police-b1060295.html

City Hall wants the Met to have the capacity to enforce a million speeding offences a year from April next year.

The LaserCam devices are regarded as “game changing” because they collect evidence able to be used in court and which avoids the need for the driver to be pulled over by police.

[David9694]

Plans to build affordable

Plans to build affordable homes in Clay Country village approved despite concerns about traffic or “I don’t want you to have somewhere to live because cars”

 Local residents, the parish council and local Cornwall councillor all said that the road leading to the site in St Stephen was ‘dangerous’

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/plans-build-affordable-homes-clay-8143082

[David9694]

Band of Bath locals tackle

Band of Bath locals tackle council in parking zone row – or “man writes letter to council”

They say councillors ‘broke their own rules’ in approving the zone

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/band-bath-locals-tackle-council-8136378

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