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Poole parking vultures seem to ignore anything with the Poole Council logo written on the side (there is often at least one of these parked on double yellows in or around Slone Street) and the coastguard vehicle parked half on the pavement right opposite the "coastguard only" bay.

But the disabled... sorry blue badge holders parked in what they thought was a disabled bay and motorbikes parked next to metal poles for attaching bikes to? PCNs all round.

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Andrew.

Interesting that a warden is defined by the oxford english dictionary as

However, a traffic warden as:


Why does "traffic warden" have its own definition? It is carefully worded: note the lack of the word "responsible".

Are you just here to disagree for the hell of it?



It's not the first time you have ignored the evidence and waded in with your own point of view.

You might be right, but if I were the journalist I would have made good use of it:


If that wasn’t the case then there’s no story!

I agree, that would have been the smart thing to do, but how come that never occurred? Two possibilities:
1) the warden was being an arse
2) the surgery was closed/the doctor was out at the time when the ticket was issued; the warden tried but couldn't get proof of the emergency.

Absolutely - if you get the opportunity. But they are probably trying to hide the fact that they are responding to press pressure. When the press officer comes back and says: "The ticket has been cancelled", how do you know?

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Me being me, I would have created the opportunity - a la Watchdog style!

I won't dismiss the possibility that the journalist was daft enough to miss that chance. Either way I think I could write this off as poor journalism.

Methinks given the evidence of the situation - warden was not applying the one brain cell he was equipped with

But I read of another in the Bolton paper...6 of one and half dozen of the other as to how this situation arose to be fair
(Jane Lavender reports - story appeared 7 November)

Not uploading as it has photo of the "victim" and whilst she may have photo published in Bolton paper.. I do not really want to place her image on a wider internet.





Hmmm.. he had a car causing a hazard and illegally parked though. He could not move it for her after all.. to be fair.



I think she should have called her husband or arranged the AA/RAC to tow it back home in reality. It was unfortunate she slipped and fell... and can appreciate she needed to unload her floral arrangements carefully .. but surely the church had a car park or some spaces in the vicinity .. where are the guests and wedding cars going to be?


Tricky as don't know the setting really..




The wedding photographer then offered to move the car to a more legal spot but said





What a good caring citizen! All heart!

Actually - if you fail to do so in France, Germany, Switzlerland .. you can be prosecuted for failing to assist a casualty ....



True.. a better warden than the one in the OP story.

She was lucky and she was parked on double yellows after all.. and fell trying to get the car moved before any ticket could be issued. Think this is where I cannot get my normal sympathetic reaction on this story

When examined by medics at the Royal Bolton - leg was too swollen initially for a plaster cast. We have to wait for swelling to go down ..

She's now encased in plaster and has been told she may need a pin to help her bones knit together.

Bolton Metro will investigate her "complaint"

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The article doesn't mention at what time the ticket was issued, but the Westminster Council site says the road in question is in CPZ C1, for which the controlled hours are 0830-1830. The article only says the car was parked on a yellow line, without specifically stating single or double - I'm assuming it was just a single given the singular "yellow line" as opposed to "yellow lines". The St Johns Wood Medical Practice site then says opening hours are 0815-1830...

Maybe the actual doctor who wrote the note wasn't available, and maybe no-one else in the practice had the slightest idea of its existence (and no, I honestly don't consider that to be anything more than faintly possible - we're talking about a pretty significant event here, I'd be amazed if the rest of the practice wasn't aware of what had just happened). Or maybe the practice closed its doors a few minutes early, just before the warden arrived for one last prowl around the CPZ before the end of the restricted time period. Or maybe the article wording is slightly poor and the car really was parked on double yellows. Knowing how some wardens in London behave, I'm inclined to believe the warden was simply doing the bare minimum required of them, ticketing an "eligible" vehicle with no regard for the circumstances.

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There's nothing saying the car was causing a hazard, and it wasn't parked illegally - delivering flowers = loading.

I suppose as soon as she had broken her foot she was no longer loading so it was suddenly illegal.

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