Traffic wardens eh!

....and Mother" <"@ {mother} @ spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...


> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:19:15 -0000, "Richard Brookman"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> If I sign a court document that contains a statement that I believe
>> to be false, I am liable to a fine or even imprisonment. So should
>> I have signed it or not?
>
> Did we talk about this? If not, it's pretty scary (very scary
> actually).

Not as such, although I recall the conversation going anywhere the beer led
it.

> One of the Court Clerks (viscious cow, bloody nice legs though) who
> was leading the training, well, involved in it anyway as they're not
> actually allowed to 'lead' as it were, suggested that although those
> who'd just sent in the cheque were due a refund, they must knowingly
> have made a false declaration of guilt - so should they face far more
> serious charges as a consequence...

My point exactly.

Thing is, I was brought up to know right and wrong, to respect the law, and
to believe that British justice was fundamentally fair. My two experiences
in court to date (divorce hearing and recent speeding case) have left me
with exactly the opposite impression. Not only fundamentally unfair in both
cases, but seemingly designed to take a normal decent bloke and turn him
into an raving anarchist.

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Rich
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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

On or around Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:16:24 -0000, "William Tasso"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Ian Rawlings <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 2006-01-25, Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> ...
>>> What options are there available to pay it? Easily available street
>>> side machines that take cash? Drive by coin bins? Or do you have to
>>> have a credit card and/or phone and/or internet access?
>>
>> They do make a variety of options available, you can pay by internet,
>> pay by phone, pay by SMS (if you set up an account with them I think),
>> and pay in some shops.
>
>FYI: most carparks in the zone also have a congestion charge payment
>machine. Not much help if you find a meter though.
>
>For my part, I find it easier to 'phone home' with instruction/request to
>pay the charge online - how that would work for others may be a mute point.

wonder what would happen if everyone drove up to the line, parked up and
walked off leaving their vehicles blocking the road. It'd only need to be
done once.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!"
Thomas À Kempis (1380 - 1471) Imitation of Christ, I.xxiii.

On or around Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:45:45 +0000, Mother <"@ {mother}
@"@101fc.net> enlightened us thusly:

>On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:01:05 +0000, Alex <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>Of course they were reasonable, being a private company the only
>>resource they have to actually *make* you pay is the county court.
>
>Course it isn't. They could clamp you.

not in the case where you've driven out of the car park, as described. Had
a result last time I went to Mancunia - pay-on-exit fishboat machine was
broken, and the bloke (whom you pay during the day), when going off duty,
simply left the barriers up.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!"
Thomas À Kempis (1380 - 1471) Imitation of Christ, I.xxiii.

Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:

[Congestion zone - London]

> ...
> wonder what would happen if everyone drove up to the line, parked up and
> walked off leaving their vehicles blocking the road. It'd only need to
> be
> done once.

might be quite a task to organise. it's not like a devil's island or ring
of steel - they're just roads/junctions etc. Obviously quantifiable but
still quite a challenge. OTOH, ever read "Gridlock" (Ben Elton 1991)?

--
William Tasso

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:51:09 -0000, "William Tasso"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>OTOH, ever read "Gridlock" (Ben Elton 1991)?

Yeah - What's really scary about that novel is how he published it
shortly after a visit to Sheffield during his tour (1991?).

I'd called him and asked if he'd mind 'officially' opening a new part
of the project Charlotte works for. He agreed, and then arrived a day
late - coughing after walking to the project with Phil McIntyre in tow
(their hotel was only 500 yards away!). He'd actually got a cold, but
I was winding him up about the stats showing Sheffield as the 4th most
polluted city in Europe (as it once was, but back in the 70s) for
months afterwards... He did do us proud though, with a pile of
freebie tickets for his show at the City Hall and some 'back stage'
access for residents - no decent Coke, though - the tight fisted
pseudo-socialist bastard...


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