[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]

Businesses still seeing ‘drop

Businesses still seeing ‘drop in footfall’ at St Stephens Place

https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/24954946.businesses-still-seeing-drop-footfall-st-stephens-place/

Ah dear old local journalism we rely on thee so much, powered as you are some times by anecdotes from individual employees and barrack-room lawyers in the comments. 

Funny how this private car park concerns a local councillor and the newspaper – what separates it from say a customer complaint that the nachos at the cinema weren’t very nice or that the cinema shows too much Marvel and not enough DC? 

[brooksby]

David9694 wrote:

Fury over Devon seafront fines for cars ‘overhanging’ markings

One visitor said she had counted eight parked cars with tickets

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/fury-over-devon-seafront-fines-9971575

Isn’t this just a natural obvious consequence of cars being manufactured bigger and bigger?

(edited – thanks, mdavidford!)

[mdavidford]

brooksby wrote:

Isn’t this just a natural consequence of cars being manufactured bigger and bigger?

I don’t think there’s anything natural about it.

If you’ve bought a car that’s too big for the environment, I see no problem with fining you for parking it there – leave it somewhere where there is space. Or buy a different car. Or don’t drive.

[chrisonabike]

mdavidford wrote:

David9694 wrote:

mdavidford wrote:

Maybe she just thought she could sycamore lenient sentence by staying.

but then she blew it by giving police a false acacia of what happened 

And now they’re going to alder responsible.

Good – bring back the birch, I say!

[mdavidford]

David9694 wrote:

mdavidford wrote:

Maybe she just thought she could sycamore lenient sentence by staying.

but then she blew it by giving police a false acacia of what happened 

And now they’re going to alder responsible.

[David9694]

I count 11 buses in an hour

I count 11 buses in an hour from the stop in Bridge Street. 

The car park bottom left is being sold along with the former civic centre. 

[David9694]

mdavidford wrote:

Maybe she just thought she could sycamore lenient sentence by staying.

but then she blew it by giving police a false acacia of what happened 

[David9694]

Fury over Devon seafront

Fury over Devon seafront fines for cars ‘overhanging’ markings

One visitor said she had counted eight parked cars with tickets
 

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/fury-over-devon-seafront-fines-9971575

[Hirsute]

“If we can’t park, we can’t
“If we can’t park, we can’t play and if we can’t park, we can’t grow.”

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24954337.loss-parking-christchurch-may-impact-indoor-bowls-club/

Amazingly zero support in the comments.

[David9694]

Two miles? Two miles? I came

Two miles? Two miles? I came here for a nice day out in a national park, not to walk two miles – oh. 

[David9694]

Otherwise laurel-abiding🧥

Otherwise laurel-abiding🧥

[andystow]

HoarseMann wrote:

Woman gets fine for illegally parking on Winnats Pass and will never return to park there after ordeal (umm, that’s how parking fines are supposed to work?!):

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14426639/TikTok-travel-influencer-never-park-Peak-District-beauty-spot-ordeal.html

It looks like it only adds two miles to walk from the Castleton car park.

[chrisonabike]

Surely you’d do as well with

Surely you’d do as well with a carbon-fibre sofa and some balloons (I bet this think isn’t great in a gale either)?  Or – if the goal is to get round the traffic – how about … a bike?

[Hirsute]

The Day Today, Broken News?
The Day Today, Broken News? I can’t decide!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cx20nwlqe07o

Brought to you by Peter O’Hanraha-hanrahan.

One way to get past those pesky cyclists!

[chrisonabike]

brooksby wrote:

brooksby wrote:

Apparently the police must had been notified too, because the woman was “blocking the road”, and it took a police car parked across the road at an angle and a police officer sternly pointing motorists back before people stopped just trying to sneak past…

Wait – they didn’t tow her away and then charge her with obstructing the highway?

Were they the woke police?  Were they not thinking about all the ambulances which couldn’t get through?

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