Naughty Aucklanders

[unstuck]

What's a parking warden???

Thats right, yours is still a hick town. Not even a roundabout yet is there?

[Swoop]

What's a parking warden???

A knife receptacle. (we can only live and hope...)

[unstuck]

Here you go BD.

[scumdog]

Thats right, yours is still a hick town. Not even a roundabout yet is there?

Or traffic lights - or parking meters...

(And we did have one roundabout - but got rid of it, pesky thing...)

[awa355]

What's a parking warden???

This is a parking warden.

[Big Dave]

Thats right, yours is still a hick town. Not even a roundabout yet is there?

Ahh - the kettle calling a kettle a kettle.

[unstuck]

We dont have any traffic lights yet either, but we do have 4 roundabouts and a heap of meters. Some truck driver is not very good though, cos they keep going across the garden on the one by the bridge.

[unstuck]

Ahh - the kettle calling a kettle a kettle.

We cant all be hicks, just our mayor. And even he has a girly name. But dont tell him I said that, cos he has all my firewood on his place.

[Gremlin]

This is a parking warden.

Bull.. ain't never seen one looking like that. Plus they usually have stuff around the belt and that... That bikini would never stay up with the ticketing machine etc.

Not altogether a bad thing

[Road kill]

If people didn't illegally park they wouldn't get tickets.

Mind you I've had two parking tickets myself and I was only a little over both times so I'm all for them getting called a "little curry muncher cunt",,or something like that.

The ones in Hamilton are getting cameras so they can record people yelling at them an shit.

New TV on Monday nights,,"Footpath Patrol" bought to you for your viewing pleasure by GOV'T Brain Washing and social enginering services LTD.

This has been another Flatfoot production.

[trustme]

What frustrates people is that the emphasis is on revenue gathering rather than enforcing rules.

[Road kill]

What frustrates people is that the emphasis is on revenue gathering rather than enforcing rules.

Revenue gathering is the tool they use to enforce the rules.

It's not like anything else works.

The emphasis is on maintaining and controlling traffic flow,nothing else.

[oneofsix]

This is a parking warden.

they are meter maids not parking wardens. When they have tried similar ideas here the councils get all upset, just goes to prove they make more revue out of the tickets than the meters.

[Banditbandit]

If people didn't illegally park they wouldn't get tickets.

Yeah - just like speeding. I'm always amused by people who want harsher prison sentences ... then complain bitterly when they get smacked themselves for breaking the law ...

[misterO]

Well, here's the dealio on that: I show up to a downtown appointment on time but am almost always told to wait. This goes for the dental visit, haircut, accountant, etc. I pride myself on punctuality so more often than not, running late isn't my fault. I once ran into the Warehouse to pick up a few things but found out at the cash register that they hadn't bothered to put a bar code on half the stuff I'd grabbed. By the time they ran a price check on everything I had a parking ticket. When I overstay there is a fine. When I come back early- is there a refund? Nope. I don't get parking tickets often, but whenever I return and see one on my windshield I've been out doing what the council wants people to do: spending money downtown. Thanks to hyper vigilant parking wardens I make an effort to stay out of the downtown area. Shopping on the Internet is cheaper in so many ways...