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i havent and i dont think i ever will as long as i am driving. you see a lot on the roads but this week someone even surprised me.

broxden roundabout - perth. heading north from stirling i joined the queue of slowing traffic in L1 wanting to head straight on. a BMW 4x4 cut me up (nothing new ) but then a car in L2 cut HIM up then proceeded onto the roundabout and off towards inverness (1st exit) which is not surprising at all. the surprising part of this story is the fact that this car pulled out right in front of a marked POLICE car who had to avoid him/her

i didnt go that way so i dont know the outcome but i hope the officer had the driver booked and prosecuted for at least driving without due care and attention. they obviously didnt bother looking either on approach or actually joining the roundabout. i cant imagine they would bother with the sticky out things on the doors either (commonly known as mirrors)

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Richie

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as for that incident, think it depends if they're heading off shift... had a car driving the wrong way down the middle of a 3 lane one way street pass between me and a squad car a while ago... plod did nothing.

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Fear is a weapon of mass distraction

I have seen a police car have to swerve around a cyclist riding down a main raod with no lights wobbling all over and just drive away.

I saw a cyclist undertake a police car standing at a red light. The 'cyclist' rode straight through............

Police reaction? Zilch!

And heared it all. South Manchester, Busy and narrow X-roads, both A roads. Controlled by traffic lights. Traffic is crawling, I get to within a few cars of the lights and on my right is a posh private school, and it's chucking out time. There are few small practical hatchbacks to be seen but any number of 'El Presidente' spec German barges and an equal number of 4x4s. They are parking anywhere - Tarquin and Jocasta clearly having lost the use of their legs - including one Range Rover that is on the junction corner , half on and off the pavement with others parked right up to it, despite the double yellows that run away from the lights. Directly across from school entrance is a pull in for a row of shops. And sat there is a GMP traffic car. So as we're going know where fast due to chaos I wind window down and ask the officer, whose sat munching away if he might do something about what's going on. His reply 'We don't handle parking issues anymore, you'll have to ring the council'

There've been many more but I think that one takes the biscuit

Barkstar

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The difference between intelligence and stupidity is that intelligence has limits.

parking enforcement actually encourages dangerous and inconsiderate parking here. you wanna stop at a shop, park 1 minute away nice & sensible in a side road you'll have a ticket in the 3 mins you've walked to the shop and back. park slap bang on the zigzags/crossing/etc main road right by the shop, it's only 30 secs and you won't.

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Fear is a weapon of mass distraction

Does decriminalised parking enforcement cover zigzags on crossings?
I'm pretty sure it doesn't cover bus/taxi only restriction bays so I doubt it would...

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Andrew.

No. Only the police can deal with it. It comes as a surprise to some that it's 3 points/£60, and even stopping to drop people off is enough (assuming you're not in a queue of course!)


It's so true. Last year I broke down on a Saturday afternoon near Hyde Park. I made it as far as a long bus stop set into the pavement. Double red lines right along it. I may or may not have gone off and left the car there for the next 3 hours (with a note), coming back to no ticket or anything else.

The area is teeming with council parking attendants. If I had parked in a resident's bay or on (probably unnecessary) double yellow lines, I almost certainly would have been ticketed within 10 minutes and towed within an hour.

So if one wishes to park illegally for whatever reason, it would indeed seem that it is well worth gambling by parking on red lines, taxi ranks or other places which are too "serious" for council money-makers. I wouldn't recommend zig-zags though, since the offence carries points, and the police do actually take an interest in the offence. Otherwise, though, it seems sensible to choose to be dealt with by those who wish to keep traffic flowing, rather than those who wish simply to take your dough. Obviously this does entail not causing an obstruction, but anyone remotely considerate wouldn't do so anyway, no matter how illegally they were parked.

Just another example of how the dash for cash has badly warped road traffic enforcement, to the detriment of everyone except the greedy tossers themselves (and probably even them in the long run). When will it all end?

At the weekend I saw a Micra with a tow bar.

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Andrew.

I saw a Harley with a tow bar!

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Pecunia Prius Equitas et Salus

Recent craze seems to be trailers for bikes =bikes with towbars --my next door neighbour regularly takes her son out this way in a child trailer thingy.

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lets bring sanity back to speed limits.
Drivers are like donkeys -they respond best to a carrot, not a stick .Road safety experts are like Asses - best kept covered up ,or sat on