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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e31791e$0$2497$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: "Man jailed for hitting Bristol parking attendant with car" Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:58:38 +0100 References:  <4e302ae3$0$2495$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk>  Lines: 32 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To:  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 262a07a6.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=0USNh64BEaXUnUG==]Oi4V0g@SS;SF6nWR9OH0:RnENTEW1HY7?bL^[`:ITG5aA:cWVLR3Z76;7c] X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 2829 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:819191

On 27/07/2011 19:35, Simon Mason wrote: > On Jul 27, 4:12 pm, Nuxx Bar  wrote: >> The really stupid thing about this is that the "penalty charge" in >> question was completely unenforceable. All the driver had to do was >> refuse to pay and ignore any correspondence regarding the matter. (I >> know the car-haters don't like this being publicised, but "the law is >> the law"....) > > Surely, all the driver had to do was to park in the correct parking > place, walk the extra few yards and not abuse designated spots for > other drivers?

The law is the law. Therefore road markings on private land are meaningless, he can park anywhere he likes there and he doesn't have to pay any "fine", end of. That's what the law says, and it's not for us to question why, remember?

Oops, I forgot: "the law mustn't be questioned or analysed in any way" only applies when "the law" works against motorists in some way; if "the law" *helps* motorists then suddenly it's in for a right grilling. Not that you're anti-motorist...I'm sure there's some other reason for that particular inconsistency. God only knows what it is, but there must surely be one.

> I think all drivers who park in disabled bays ought to have their legs > broken on the spot and then be allowed to park there. :-p

Sadly, some psycholists probably really do think that. After all, we're talking about people who think it's OK to kill road users with false road safety measures if it means more drivers will be bullied out of their cars. Actually, it may only be one guy, one chap who's a loony enough man to think that.