F**K you DCC you tossers

[robzilla]

Rant rant (plus swearing)


f*ck you DCC you whorebags of shit. You and your parking warden pieces of brown-nosed shit lickers.

i live at the bottom of a downhill cul de sac with no turning space whatsoever which is always packed w/ cars (so much that that my flattie has to get 2 wheels on the grass lining a meter drop just to get out in the mornin).

This means i CANNOT park my bike on the road outside my house if i want to be able to get it out again. (read: steep bastard street, yellow lines, no space etc. winge winge...)

BUT thats OK, i think, ill just put it out of the way on that bit of footpath over there where those OTHER FUCKING CARS are already half-on half-off the foot path (including a big fuck off hi-ace or somthing).

note i ride a ZZr 250 which i always take care to get as close to the 2m high fence as possible - with the mirrors folded in aswell. Not a huge bike. Pretty damn small compared to the panel van parked not 2m away.

And i pretty sure that the two, MAYBE fucking THREE people that walk this backwoods-ish dead-end street dont feel obstucted by my ZZR.

And im pretty sure that Officer "20" of the prestigious DCC parking patrol unit(GET A FUCKING LESS COCK-SUCKING JOB), who so kindly gave me a ticket can

A: Maybe next time dispense tickets to all parking violations(none of the cars/vans on the the path were ticketed)

or maybe

B: fucking go fornicate themselves with a steel bar


thats all. Feels better.

Thanks

[Drum]

Sounds like they are from the same quality intellectual stock as our Wellington wardens. $200 for not displaying a warrant??. Bloody open your eyes you dimwit!

Make sure you send in an explanation letter once you cool down.

[megageoff76]

Just swipe (borrow) some road cones late one night where there are some road works going on, and then line your end of the street with them...that should give you some room, at least for a wee while anyway.

[Mom]

thats all. Feels better.

Thanks

Sounds to me like you need a failing that try a few of these

[Laava]

They have just started using wheel clamps up here[WDC Parking] but near the city there is a large carpark created by some recent road developments. In this carpark, which has some of the old road in it, there are some old yellow lines left over from when it was designated road. But people have been getting clamped in there for parking on these yellow lines! I tell you, their brains would rattle in a fleas skull![The wardens I mean!]

[thehollowmen]

DCC have a poor track record if you try and contest it.

One option is to say you asked a DCC parking warden about it and he said it should be fine if you kept it as unintrustive as possible. Most of the ones I've met / stopped / talked to have been pretty good and try to be consistent about tickets and have good common sense but there are some who are wankers too.

I used to park at work 'on the footpath' which was actually a tiny stretch of company owned forecourt on George st but so long as I didn't obstruct flow of foot traffic I was sweet. Even parked in the octogon on the footpath too and asked it was ok to park there and they said it was sweet... but really it sounds like you got a wanker today.

[Disco Dan]

always though parking wardens were all just 'wannabe cops' ..power freaks.

dam that sucks mate, write your letter and enlarge it... post it around where your bike is parked...

[Jantar]

You will have no show with complaining about it. If I recall correctly, DCC policy was/is to provide one free on street car park per residential property. It sounds like your flat mate is using it.

While I sympathise with you, you have no legal argument. This is just another example of the laws (or bylaws in this case) being written for cages and discriminating against bikes.

[Quartermile]

They have just started using wheel clamps up here[WDC Parking] but near the city there is a large carpark created by some recent road developments. In this carpark, which has some of the old road in it, there are some old yellow lines left over from when it was designated road. But people have been getting clamped in there for parking on these yellow lines! I tell you, their brains would rattle in a fleas skull![The wardens I mean!]

Nice analogy

My dad works above WINZ in the CBD, I would like to clarify that he doesn't in anyway have a job related to WINZ.

But the local Polytech where I study is just down the road so I find it conveniant to park in one of the spare places in thier carpark.

Of course the fact that nearly all of the 20 to 30 parks that WINZ occupies compared to the 4 that my dad's work has isn't enough for the bastards so quite often one of their staff decides to use the extra park meaning I can't

So the other day I decided to park in one of their free parks when going down into town but no sooner had I left my bike and started to wander away than the WINZ security guard approached me and told me that unless I removed my vehicle it would be towed, that would be interesting towing a bike.

I went on to explain to the overweight chap that one of the WINZ employees had taken the spare park from my dad's work He told me that I had to move my bike and he would sort that out.

Luckily Tauranga has alot of M/C parks around so I moved my bike and came back and hour or so to find guess what,it hadden't been moved!!!!!

[robzilla]

...While I sympathise with you, you have no legal argument. ....

Yeah that is true..

BUUUUUT i might as well try appeal to their less cut+dry bureaucratic side (although i think DCC regulations specify humanity to be surgically removed upon entering local-government lackey-ship..) just for the hell of it.
And in the likleyhood of nothing happening - mail them some sweet fresh anthrax. mmm...

Plus no other tickets on other vehicles - wankers...!

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

You will have no show with complaining about it. If I recall correctly, DCC policy was/is to provide one free on street car park per residential property. It sounds like your flat mate is using it.

While this is suppose to be the case... our street just lost 3 carparks and gained 5 flats... we struggle getting a part out side our own flat, there are main cases were flats and main houses in Dunedin do not have OSP, and many with tight and narrow (some step and narrow) streets. I have a friend who lives in a flat there is no parking on his streeet, and he has no OSP.

As for bikes many cases you can squeese around the back in one form or another, but cages can't... I put it down to no fore thought allowing to build in stupid places... Im not sure on the bylaw now but new dwellings I believe have to have off street parking (I been out of the building trade a bit long)

[_intense_]

Parking wardens the world over are scrotum rot, the lowest class, right on a specal pedistal reserved for child molesters, rapists and George W. Bush.

/yet anothe rexample of friendly council workers acting like nazi bully-boys in their own demented wee power trips.

/end rant.

[Guitana]

Yeah that is true..

BUUUUUT i might as well try appeal to their less cut+dry bureaucratic side (although i think DCC regulations specify humanity to be surgically removed upon entering local-government lackey-ship..) just for the hell of it.
And in the likleyhood of nothing happening - mail them some sweet fresh anthrax. mmm...

Plus no other tickets on other vehicles - wankers...!

And if that fails CRAP in a shoe box and mail it to the Mayor!!!!!

[craigs288]

You could try to drag things out for as long as possible while trying to get your point across, and make the 'wannabe-enforcer' look like a discriminating cocksucker in the process.
You will probably still have to pay in the end.
Is there some way to get a hearing with the council if you disagree, like you can request when you get a speeding ticket from the police?
If so you could point out that there were several vehicles liable for the same infringement ( especially the vehicle that had 'two wheels' on the path same as yours) and that the parking warden has chosen to victimise you.
And as there are more cars on the roads than bikes, you are actually part of a minority group. And for the council to be discriminating against a minority, well, I thought the government and all departments were very much against such behaviour.
Failing that, you could spend a morning ringing tow truck companies and getting peoples vehicles towed, and when they get all angry try to convince them it was probably the same wanker-panty-sniffing parking ticket ass-piece that gave your bike a ticket.
Don't mind me, I hate all councils, and government departments.

[Quartermile]

Yea through experiance droping others in doesn't work as they don't care if the others are breaking the law, beacause if you are aswell it still makes you guilty so you have no real argument.

You could try it but I highly suggest thinging of something else aswell