RobinXe wrote:
Its a business, the 'wardens' are on incentives and the goal is to make as much money as possible. Why would they use common sense when they can get one more 'collar' towards their figures through pedantry? How ironic that they belong to the same category of people as those who complain when innocent people are acquitted on a 'technicality', when all they themselves enforce are 'technicalities'!
Absolutely. It's one of the main indicators that it's all about raising revenue and persecuting motorists, rather than "enforcing the law".
Since "decriminalised" parking enforcement came in, we've all heard about many ridiculous tickets, but this is one of the most despicable yet. While the incentive is revenue raising rather than keeping traffic moving, we will always get cases like this. Disabled people, old people, vulnerable people and everyone else will always suffer. The only way of stopping it is to fundamentally change the system so that no council or private company benefits from maximising tickets.
That poor woman. Decriminalised parking enforcement has led
directly to this incident, and it shows how disgustingly callous and rabid the car-haters who unconditionally support such systems really are. (What exactly is the point in trying to bully an 82-year-old Parkinson's sufferer out of her car anyway? Is she supposed to get the bus and cycle everywhere? There is no logic behind this anti-car nonsense, it's just persecution for the sake of it.)
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Paul Smith: a legend.
"The freedom provided by the motor vehicle is not universally applauded, however: there are those who resent the loss of state control over individual choice that the car represents. Such people rarely admit their prejudices openly; instead, they make false or exaggerated claims about the adverse effects of road transport in order to justify calls for higher taxation or restrictions on mobility." (
Conservative Way Forward:
Stop The War Against Drivers)