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OFF TOPIC => WORLD NEWS => Motoring => Topic started by: eye30 on February 07, 2018, 17:58:12

Title: Parking fine placed on car where permit was hidden by snow
Post by: eye30 on February 07, 2018, 17:58:12

A council has issued a £70 parking fine to a driver whose permit was hidden by the snow on his car's windscreen.

He added that if they had swept the snow away, they would have seen the permit.

 :link: Parking fine placed on car where permit was hidden by snow - BBC News (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-42972197)

Title: Re: Parking fine placed on car where permit was hidden by snow
Post by: Shambles on February 07, 2018, 18:15:43

It just makes you wonder, doesn't it...

Title: Re: Parking fine placed on car where permit was hidden by snow
Post by: nzenigma on February 07, 2018, 21:54:44

Quote from: Shambles on February 07, 2018, 18:15:43

It just makes you wonder, doesn't it...

...... :blubber: Not any more. . Also note the usual "cannot comment".

Title: Re: Parking fine placed on car where permit was hidden by snow
Post by: mickd on February 07, 2018, 23:58:10

Typical  :disapp:
But where now more than ever,  workers are being told " do what you have been instructed to do, it's not your job to think ", what can you expect.
 By the time the council sorts this out it will have cost 10 times what the  fine was, because someone did as they were told.

Title: Re: Parking fine placed on car where permit was hidden by snow
Post by: nzenigma on February 08, 2018, 03:00:27

Some time back, I bought a house in inner Brisbane with the intention of sub dividing it and putting a "removal" house on the back "battle axe" block. Sub dividing went well until the council insisted that a power pole had to be installed beside the driveway... before we could build. :scared:

I reminded the assigned council genius that our plans showed that a removal house would be transported up this driveway, as it was we had less than a metre clearance to fit it between two existing houses, so a power pole was out of the question.

  :wacko: No the pole had to go in first! That was the rule!

3 days later, no progress, so I asked the genius how he imagined I could bring the house up onto the block... OVER the pole or UNDER the pole?

Genius looked at me as if he actually knew the answer, and said " that's for you to decide".   :faint:

Obvious course was to install power pole, get stamp of approval from idiot, pull pole out, bring in house, install pole...seek therapy.  :blubber:

Title: Re: Parking fine placed on car where permit was hidden by snow
Post by: Dazzler on February 08, 2018, 03:27:19

Don't you just hate bureaucratic inflexibility.  When I was a manager at various establishments I occasionally  bent the rules slightly to accommodate out of the ordinary situations.  The hierarchy were not always pleased. I call it common sense.  :crazy1:

Title: Re: Parking fine placed on car where permit was hidden by snow
Post by: nzenigma on February 08, 2018, 08:15:42

 :)     :goodjob2:  but these days, Common sense is an uncommon sensibility.

 Cheers Dazz

Title: Re: Parking fine placed on car where permit was hidden by snow
Post by: tw2005 on February 08, 2018, 20:04:49

It's snow wonder people get upset. :wacko: