Mr Wishy Washy and the Angry Cage Driver

[Quartida]

Carry a squeeze bottle and squirt them back.

That, my friend, is GENIUS.

[Da Bird]

Most of them are scum sucking little criminals who often use intimidation and threats to get money out of people if you don't pay. One guy I deal with on a regular basis is a child molester (that kept him away from the intersections for a couple of years).

We get lots of calls about these pricks who are usually on the dole as well as making lots of tax free dollars window washing.

I have dealt with window washers for years and used to take their brushes and buckets off them (but its a bit hard to do on the bike!). I usually prosecute them as well but the maximum fine is only $500.00 and they usually only get a $50 - $100 fine which can be a few hours work.

I also report them to WINZ as well in the hope they get their benefit stopped.

Anyone who pays these guys only encourage them to keep doing it. For those that approve of it, it is you, the taxpayer that is ultimately getting ripped off.

(Can you tell I don't like window washers???)

BC

[Ixion]

Do people really pay them? Oddly, even when in the car , I have never had any problem with them.

I just look at them and shake my head, and they always seem to accept that.

If one did insist despite that I doubt I would give him anything.

Ironically, the one time I DID want them to wash my windscreen - in the Pajero, I'd been along a very muddy track and the windscreen (and everything else) was filthy - none of them would come near me , despite beckoning gestures. Lazy buggers.

[ZeroIndex]

here is the trick.. worked in south africa too.. when they start to approach your vehicle, start honking on the horn, and use your standard washers.. they won't bother you.. although you may get some strange looks from the other cars..


hmmm... with that in mind, the hazard lights may also make for an interesting stop..


oh wait.. i have an even better idea.. carry a squeezy bottle of soapy water, and have your window down, when they squirt your window, squirt them.. and then put your window up/drive off quickly.. - edit*.. just saw someone already posted that.. DAMMIT

[ZeroIndex]

Most of them are scum sucking little criminals who often use intimidation and threats to get money out of people if you don't pay. One guy I deal with on a regular basis is a child molester (that kept him away from the intersections for a couple of years).

We get lots of calls about these pricks who are usually on the dole as well as making lots of tax free dollars window washing.

I have dealt with window washers for years and used to take their brushes and buckets off them (but its a bit hard to do on the bike!). I usually prosecute them as well but the maximum fine is only $500.00 and they usually only get a $50 - $100 fine which can be a few hours work.

I also report them to WINZ as well in the hope they get their benefit stopped.

Anyone who pays these guys only encourage them to keep doing it. For those that approve of it, it is you, the taxpayer that is ultimately getting ripped off.

(Can you tell I don't like window washers???)

BC

or if someone had a nightstick in their car, they could get out and bash the window washer and then say "bad kitty, i said no.."

[Swoop]

Indeed, I know one guy who earned average of 50-60 bucks an hour... He actually had rags that he WEARS out to clean windscreens though he earned more than anyone else around him.

Sort of like the professional beggars in London...
Beg on the streets wearing old clothes all day, then retire home to a pleasant flat and a decent meal of an evening.

["D" FZ1]

Had a good one a while ago in Ham. I said no thanks. His reply was, that at there windscreen washer motorvational meeting that morning, they had decided that any car with a lady inside that resembled a current or former miss world that they would wash the screen for free. He went ahead and washed it then implied that after that speech I should pay him. I said that I only had EFTPOS which he said that I could leave with him and come back in an hour

[aff-man]

Gonna import me one of them flame throwers for the bottom of me car I think.


Yeh beggers in saffa land earn more than you'd think. They drive up in a fancy car then put on the old cloths bring out thier crude cardboard sign and start harrasing motorists. Very prosperous bussiness in bimbo land (often called sandton) where dumb blond housewives feel sorry for the buggers and empty thier purses for them..... idiots