"It is believed attempts to seize his vehicle have so far failed because it is used for work purposes."
Mmm
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/White-van-man-is-in.6394162.jp
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The problem with white vans...
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Posted 13 years ago #
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" We didn't want permits here in the first place " Amen to that!!! but probably not the most popular view on here....
£9000 in a year though? That's some brass neck!
Posted 13 years ago # -
@recombodna they originally sent us a letter saying that our street was being removed from the CPZ and that if we wanted it included we should write in, in fact it was put up on a lamp post
Then when they were painting the lines I said "eh?"
I tried to contact the guy who had signed lamp post note but apparently he had "left the department" and they denied the original letter (which I had helpfully lost but may turn up one day) said anything about writing in to ADD it into the CPZ they claimed it said write in to REMOVE it... lies damned lies, way to go CEC but you don't get a penny out of me as we have parking beneath our flats.Posted 13 years ago # -
Yeah i have a driveway but my van JUST fits in it. It means I have to move the van every time I want into the garage. It's just another one of life's wee hassles... there wasn't really a parking problem in Polwarth (others may disagree) the main problem was double parking and that still goes on.
Posted 13 years ago # -
yup, after 5pm the traffic wardens go home and the permit holders spaces fill before I get home... genius
then the double parkers get home and block the bins and fire engines from the street
Funny story about that, the day the school burned down on West Bryson and I was walking home past it, double parked porsche, fire engine crew on radio to base:
"Permission to remove vehicle?"
"Permission granted"
Vroom CRUNCH
I almost wept tears of pure joyPosted 13 years ago # -
Double parking being a 'police' matter rather than enforcers so people are more likely to get away with it (since the police are dealing with real issues such as cyclists... :P)
Would have loved to have seen the fire engine.
Gorra drive in Duddingston, and no street parking restrictions, which generally isn't an issue (some people do park cars by the side of the road on opposite side and it makes it a very tight squeeze) but it's not high density residential, i.e. not flats/tenements etc, but wee bungalows, so less cars to the area.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Many years ago, in the summer of '84, I worked winding and repairing parking meters in Glasgow.
One morning there was a black Porsche, not a real one, it had the engine at the front, with a "Broken meter" message on the windscreen. I mended it and removed the message from the wiper. I put the full 2 hrs on the meter as required. As I got my bus home in the afternoon I spotted the car still there with a nice ticket on the screen.
Posted 13 years ago # -
"I worked winding and repairing parking meters"
NEVER occurred to me that they needed winding!
How often?
I knew local kids who knew how to open them - with a hammer!
Posted 13 years ago # -
Well they don't now but the old clock work ones did.
I had to wind all the meters in Glasgow once a week. The mechs were the same in either side of the head but flipped round. One one side you had to wind clockwise and the other side was anti clockwise. There were two winding holes on the pavement side of the head. You could see the escapement wheel though a wee window. At that time I think there were just over 2000 mechs in the city. They went from Candleriggs to Newton St and Killermont St to Clyde St. There had been some at the airport but they had been taken out by then.
Usually people would jam them and then put a message on their wiindscreen. The same items turned up in the same area every week. Washers and paper clips were OK but chewing gum was horrible.
At the time roads HQ was in India St so that was the first one we did on Monday morning to repair any damage from the weekend.
I did some weekends changing them to work on 20p which was footery as they were nearly the same size as an old shilling. I was in Blythwood Sq late on a Saturday evening hitting a mech with a hammer to replace the tariff plate when a van rushed up from Pitt St police HQ and a large copper jumped out demanding to know what on Earth I was doing. Late evenings in Blythswood meant meeting some other types of people too in those days.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Ah, the halcyon days of individual grey parking meters that made satisfyingly mechanical clunks and buzzy sounds. I used to practice leapfrogging them.
Posted 13 years ago # -
"I had to wind all the meters in Glasgow once a week"
All, all by yourself?
Posted 13 years ago # -
I had to wind them all. I walked round them. There were other guys with Metros who would replace any I couldn't repair. They went back to the depot in Riddrie. I didn't, I had a pie or a bridie in George Sq for lunch.
I could do them all in 4 days. It's not a big area.
The cash dropped into a lower section and Group 4 emptied them out.
Posted 13 years ago # -
"Unemployed Mr McPhee said he realised he was in hot water after receiving dozens of warning letters but has refused to settle his debts because he feels he should not have to pay to park "in his own street"."
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/Parking-cheat-insists-theres-no.6397565.jp
Posted 13 years ago # -
there's just no hope for some folk eh??
Posted 13 years ago # -
"It is believed attempts to seize his vehicle have so far failed because it is used for work purposes."
"Unemployed Mr McPhee "
I'm confused..
Posted 13 years ago # -
"I'm confused.."
Yeah I thought that.
(Not you being confused - the rest of your post)
No excuse for not seizing van now!
WON'T be worth £9k!!!
Posted 13 years ago # -
That van's worth about £400.
Posted 13 years ago # -
oh mr recombodna you are too generous!
Posted 13 years ago # -
Maybe but those 2.5 bannana di's are indestructable.Providing it has tax and mot I could get another 10 years out of that van. Probably needs the arches and rear crossmember done but mk5 transits are the best vans bar none (imho)
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