The UK is bloody ridiculous for parking tickets. Everywhere that can possibly have lines painted on the road to stop or charge you for parking has had, and private companies are employed to search and persecute the innocent motorist that can no longer park near his local shops, facilities or the beach.
Parking wardens employed by these private companies (that are also sufferers of ‘little big mans syndrome’ with very small penis’s) are paid on a performance related pay scheme, ie the more tickets and fines they hand out, the more they get paid.
Well, fuck you. In Fort William I put my ticket in the slot of the machine, jamming it up so it required fixing, and no further person could pay either.
And (fuck you twice) in York after driving round the ring road not finding any space or car park accepting a 10.5 metre motor home, I parked in the coach park. Imagine my disgust when after returning from an hours shopping I not only had a ticket, they had locked me into the coach park with a chain on the gate. I wouldn’t mind, but it was midweek, chucking it down with rain and there were no coaches anyway, let alone tourists – I was the only one. Needless to say I got out my angle grinder and generator to cut their lock of the gate. After closing it behind me, it only then dawned on me – sacrifice the expensive security lock on my bicycle, and locked them out of their own car park.
Sort the parking out Britian – nowhere else in Europe uses parking to generate revenues. If you wisely spent the money you had instead of fighting stupid wars and giving it away in Public Private Partnership schemes, you wouldn’t need it.
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