Parking Scam

[Colapop]

Just saw on the news that half of Wellington's parking wardens have been suspended - for ticketing everyone's cars but their own. The question is, Was that an acceptable perk?
Footnote: Wellington City Council does not provide free parking for wardens while they are 'on the beat'

[Skyryder]

It's an acceptable perk.
One thing that this country has forgotten is that you look after your own. In the grand scheme of things a few parking wardens cars are not going to make didly squat.

Someone's got blisters on their hands and are frustrated.

Skyryder

[justsomeguy]

Someone's got blisters on their hands and are frustrated.

Skyryder

I think some parking warden gave the wrong car a ticket - and didn't listen to the "What? How dare you give me a ticket? Don't you know who I am speech?".

[WINJA]

IVE BEEN GIVEN PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT BY AUCKLAND CITY PARKING WARDENS MANY TIMES , GOT LOTSA TICKETS TOO.
IVE ALSO GOT ONE IN TROUBLE , 2 OF THEM WERE WALKING TOWARDS ME , ONE OF THEM WAS MY NEMESIS (IN A GOOD WAY) I PULLED $20 OUTA MY POCKET AND TRIED TO HAND IT TO HIM IN FRONT OF HIS WORK MATE , HE SAID WHATS THAT FOR , I SAID ITS YOUR WEEKLY FEE YOU BEEN CHARGING TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY , FUCK HIS MATE GAVE HIM THE DIRTIEST LOOK .
THAT PARKING WARDEN IS A TOP BLOKE , MY OTHER FAVOURITE TRICK WAS TO SIT IN MY VAN WITH TINTED WINDOWS , WHEN THEY WALK FROM BEHIND TO CHALK THE TYRES THEY CANT SEE ME , AS THEY BEND OVER TO CHALK ME ID LEAN ON THE HORN

[limbimtimwim]

WHEN THEY WALK FROM BEHIND TO CHALK THE TYRES THEY CANT SEE ME , AS THEY BEND OVER TO CHALK ME ID LEAN ON THE HORN

LOL!! Never had a problem with Wellington's wardens till I got tickets on two days in a row on MY BIKE while it was parked outside my flat against the fence, on the footpath. Yes, I know parking on the footpath is an infringement, but I had asked a parking warden I saw one day outside the house if he would ticket it, he said "I've never heard of a bike getting a parking ticket". I asked another one: "As long as it is against the fence, no problem".

So, they are not my friends. After they ticketed all those people watching F69 get sunk, I was even more annoyed.

I hope one of them who ticketed my bike was also one of the wardens suspended.

[Zed]

It's an acceptable perk.
One thing that this country has forgotten is that you look after your own.

Acceptable to who? Not me if I'm the one contributing to their employers bank account! The job they choose to do is anathema with most of the people I know, the very thought that they are above the law and are rewarded for it is very distressing. I hope they get the book thrown at them for their underhand crimes.

[marty]

It's an acceptable perk.
One thing that this country has forgotten is that you look after your own. In the grand scheme of things a few parking wardens cars are not going to make didly squat.

Someone's got blisters on their hands and are frustrated.

Skyryder

absolutely an acceptable perk - like letting cops off camera/speeding tickets.

[Waylander]

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Personally I don't care if they get free parking. They are there to do a job for the city and have to park somewhere while doing that job right? The only problem I would have is if they were ticketing peaple that still had time on the meter. And that whole thing with the boat sinking was just ridiculas. Hell why not make a drunk test spot and then ticket all the peaple in the que up to it for parking in the street and driving well below the speed limit.

[SixPackBack]

Your a genius Waylander, why has'nt the gubermunt thought of that?

[John Banks]

Just saw on the news that half of Wellington's parking wardens have been suspended

Acceptable, unacceptable, half the parking wardens gone is not something I'd be complaining about

[Skyryder]

absolutely an acceptable perk - like letting cops off camera/speeding tickets.

The difference is that one is a safety issue and one is not. I'm the first to admit that parking wardens can be bastards no question about that. But before anyone points the finger about perks I wonder how many here at some time or another has not enjoyed a perk of their employment. Like I said in the grand scheme of things............etc etc.

Skyryder

[Skyryder]

Acceptable to who? Not me if I'm the one contributing to their employers bank account! The job they choose to do is anathema with most of the people I know, the very thought that they are above the law and are rewarded for it is very distressing. I hope they get the book thrown at them for their underhand crimes.

Zed, read John 8-7 in the context of my reply to Marty.

Skyryder

[Skyryder]

Acceptable, unacceptable, half the parking wardens gone is not something I'd be complaining about

That is until you can not find a place to park.

Skyryder

[SPman]

As a building inspector - sometimes I draw the short straw and have to fill in in the city.
Got 2 f**king tickets last time - if those dicks had half a brain cell between them Id be surprised. Council vehicle full of gear outside a building site! One prick was about to ticket me because I was 2 feet onto a half covered yellow line under a site office! Fucktards!
The guys working in town say they see these pricks lurking in shop doorways, waiting for time to expire on parking cards and meters, so they can ticket them.
Are they all on bonus schemes or something?

[lowededwookie]

Can I change my vote to the They should be hung, drawn, and quartered - off with their heads!! option? I didn't get the full sense of the text and thought it meant whether we should get parking perks.

Those parking dilholes need their nads removed and stomped on. They'll stiff you for anything. I once got a parking ticket on my bike. Not a word of a lie. I wrote a letter telling them where they could stick their parking ticket.