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Twister
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...doesn't it just make you want to :rotfl:

From today's thelondonpaper
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Say cheeeeeeese :bounce1:

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This news item culled from the Hamstead & Highgate Express 2/8/2007. Look like it’s one rule for them and another for us, as usual.

Double yellow peril is nothing for CCTV car

A CHEEKY council CCTV car driver spent a lucrative afternoon catching drivers illegally entering a box junction - while parked on a double yellow line.

Council workers sat in the car snapping motorists last Friday from the no parking spot on the corner of Compayne Gardens and West End Lane.

The car issued seven penalty charge notices to drivers who ignored a “no right turn” sign.

Double yellow lines ban parking 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because parking there is dangerous.

But a Camden Council spokesman said: “Our CCTV cars have permission to park on yellow lines as occasionally this is the only way they can capture the necessary information on vehicles that are breaking the law.

“The CCTV cars will only park in this way when it is both necessary and safe for them to do so/’


Think again, boys............

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Sod you lot, we're the Council wrote:
“The CCTV cars will only park in this way when it is both necessary and safe for them to do so/’

So when I need to park and it's safe to do, will I not get a ticket? :x

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i always thought those speed camera signs were just that..... what do they use these smarts for ? why us the same sign ?
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ed_m wrote:
i always thought those speed camera signs were just that..... what do they use these smarts for ? why us the same sign ?


they're like mobile cash converters, videoing & criminalising drivers for commiting various infractions, often while hypocritally parked dangerously and/or illegally themselves

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ed_m wrote:
i always thought those speed camera signs were just that..... what do they use these smarts for ? why us the same sign ?


I think it may have meant that originally, but it's been used as a general "enforcement camera" warning for a while now.

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Double yellow lines ban parking 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because parking there is dangerous.

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“The CCTV cars will only park in this way when it is both necessary and safe for them to do so/’


Firstly double yellow lines can have a date range, secondly that is the same reason everyone else parks on them!

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Double yellow lines ban parking 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because parking there is dangerous.

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“The CCTV cars will only park in this way when it is both necessary and safe for them to do so/’


Firstly double yellow lines can have a date range, secondly that is the same reason everyone else parks on them!

You mean, most drivers only do things when they think they're safe? They care about the safety of themselves, others and their vehicles?

Does not compute. Drivers (at least non-privileged ones) are monsters who cannot be trusted, must be controlled and would kill themselves and others every time given the opportunity. The only way to stop them is to demonise them, spread exaggerated, alarmist, false messages, and take their money at every turn. That means they're so busy whinging about how unfair it is that they forget to kill and maim defenseless children.

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