Clamped car cut in half

JJBoxster wrote:

Clearly I and the vast majority of "thieving lying arrogant scum" (the local community that hates your insiduous money thieving guts) have got you yellow cancer cells down completely wrong!! Sorry, what a MISTAKE, accept my apologies from millions of motorists across the nation with exactly the same opinion...

You claim the vast majority of 'the local community' are thieving, lying arrogant scum along with yourself. I would hazard a guess 'the local community' don't thank you for the slur, and don't want you talking for them.

JJBoxster wrote:

...Could you just point out any other sector of the government that gets abuse and invective from so many normally upstanding members of the community?...

By 'normally upstanding' I assume you're NOT talking about those that park illegally then rant, bile filled on the internet about unfair it is that they have to fit in to society without special dispensation?? I guess other people who get unwarranted abuse could include politicians, tax collectors, the NHS, etc. etc. all easy targets at times, but all very necessary parts of society in the UK. The thing is nobody ever praises work done well, so you only ever hear negative comments.

JJBoxster wrote:

I've also been ticketed, correctly, for parking overtime. I rolled up to 2 wardens on the spot and was told implicitly I just had to pay the fine and it was alright to leave the car for 10-20mins. When I came back 20mins later my car had been towed - £250! Who's the lying scum pinhead

So you admit fault, then ask if you can have further 'free' parking to which the wardens said you could have '10-20mins'; yeah they were wrong to allow you this free parking, but then you still took the 20mins didn't you? Why not just move your car? why not come back 10mins later? or 18mins? As I've said before I KNOW that people lie and or have no concept of time when I've heard complaints in the past, claiming 2mins. when they've been an hour, and I'm not going to call you a liar in regard to this particular occasion, but I wouldn't be surprised to find you were longer than you think. Also, like I said, those wardens shouldn't have told you you could stay the extra time as the consequences were not in their hands, they may have been trying to do you a favour, but their judgement was off on this occasion.

JJBoxster wrote:

...You claim the yellow cancer cells are "trying to do what is best and safest for the community at large"...

I won't repeat each point, but I'll try to answer each in turn: 1) Either depending on policy. If there's a need for more spaces then more spaces would of course be best, but where is a planning issue and not the responsibility of the guy in the street doing his job that you incite people to abuse without good reason. 2) If an area is deemed unsafe to park in then the danger could be in obscuring the view of other road users, obstructing emergency vehicles etc. etc. 3)Where they can, yes. Approx. 400, with 800 more as part of planned development giving a net gain over ten years of around 600 publicly managed spaces. In addition plans have been approved for double that to be provided with private partnerships over the same period. 4) Don't have accurate figures, but I'd guess at 100. I don't agree in every case, but the reason has been for better traffic flow and safety. You do realise that the raw number of parking spaces available doesn't improve the traffic congestion in some areas and that traffic, and town, planning is a complex beast? 5) I don't have an accurate figure, but I would conservatively estimate that more than 100% of revenue raised from parking charges both standard and excess has been spent on parking provision and traffic planning. 6) No idea. 7) Thanks again for the personal insults. In answer to your question hidden in the insult I'd say categorically that punishing those who commit offenses is definitely part of the solution, if you don't agree then I really don't know what to say, other than refer you too my previous comment on mental capacity. 8) There's no scam/theft/deceit that they're getting away with, how long can you delude yourself? unnumbered) Maybe YOU should spend some time in their shoes before you troll about spouting hate and BS. I bet you couldn't, but I'd love to hear you fantasy plan to spend £200m in Westminster, abolish parking fines and provide parking for all exactly where they want, when they want it. EDIT: BTW If you can really put forward that plan, answering the two question I put to you in my 2nd post, but that you avoid answering, should be a doddle.