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Plenty of potential traffic wardens in the BR it would appear?
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In a Waitrose car park this morning were a police car and fire brigade Land Rover. Both parked in bays. They didn't feel the need to abandon them wherever they liked.
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In a Waitrose car park this morning were a police car and fire brigade Land Rover. Both parked in bays. They didn't feel the need to abandon them wherever they liked.
The ambulance is too big for the bays, (it seems there is only Aldi that has the sense to make parking bays a decent width).
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The ambulance may be too big for a bay, so why not just park in two bays rather than on the double yellow lines. Plenty of people in big long wheel base vans manage to park okay amongst the bays.
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At first glance this incident does raise some questions. However as various people point out other factors come into play.and circumstances alter cases. On this occasion I would be inclined to allow the vehicle and the crew a little indulgence. If only to show how we all appreciate their efforts when it really matters.Why would anyone deliberately want to spoil their day? The NHS takes enough needless knock from ill informed commentators who take this and other incidents at face value and spew forth without all the actual facts being taken into consideration. Just my humble opinion. Unpopular with some no doubt, but it takes all sorts!!!
Cheers Concrete
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Why would anyone deliberately want to spoil their day?
Agreed. But like many others, I guess the ambulance crew hoped that no-one would object, and pushed their luck a bit. There was no need to park where they did - I suspect they were banking on everyone's goodwill. Nearly all the time that is a good bet, but it sometimes gets messy when the gamble fails. As a PSV, they should have set a better example and not risked it.
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I guess the ambulance crew hoped that no-one would object
I doubt they even thought about it, but their are a lot of small minded people that think if I cannot get away with it why should they, imo they should be allowed to park on both single and double yellows anywhere if they are not obstructing the road
emergency or not
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... imo they should be allowed to park on both single and double yellows anywhere if they are not obstructing the road
Well, it's a point of view. OK also to do that while they stop for a sandwich?
It has already been said that the ambulance is too big for a standard parking space, so it probably is quite a sizeable obstruction. Those double yellows have no legal standing of course, but they are the simplest and clearest way to ask drivers politely not to stop there.
Nuff said.
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The link shows that the charge has been rescinded. So nothing to fuss about.
I think it's unfair on the guy issuing the ticket. He was simply doing his job. This guy received abuse for doing his job and he probably receives a lot more of it.
As others have said, there was another crew member, so I can't see there being any need to even park the vehicle. Even if a driver waited in the vehicle, I'm sure he could have just talked to the guy and either got let off or got asked to move on.
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The crew need to be able to respond as quickly as possible. Would you want them to park at the other side of the car park, potentially delaying a response?
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I’ve never really understood why I have to stick £4 in the parking meter every working day yet the bloke next to me with the new £50k BMW sticks a card thing in the window and doesn’t pay a jot. Are all disabled people poor?
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Strange how when there occurs a (very occasional) instance of an emegency crew spotted doing something as wantonly outrageous, heinous and disgraceful as parking on double yellows for three minutes in a supermarket car-park, a horde of self righteous goody two-shoes (who themselves would never ever dream of trangressing even the most minor rule, regulation or advisory notice and clearly live a blameless life) everyone emerges out of the woodwork and from under sundry rocks and bridges to exhibit gross shock and censure.
Yet, in my experience, when the said emergency services are doing their damnedest to extricate someone from under a train or down a cliff face or 100 feet up collapsed scaffolding or in a burning building or from a tunnel filled with toxic gas ... all circumstances where every other b***** is running in the opposite direction .... then strangely no-one seems to complain about them. All of a sudden everyone loves them, they say they're heroes, they pat them on the back and say "I couldn't do your job for all the tea in China" ... but, go and pick up a cold drink and leave your truck outside for a minute in an area where mere mortals aren't supposed to park ... and all hell is let loose.
OK, go ahead and slag me off, but do so in the knowledge that I rate the complainants as displaying mock outrage purely for the sake of it and clearly haven't got anything of significance going on at the moment otherwise they might see how pathetic they appear.
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Strange how when there occurs a (very occasional) instance of an emegency crew spotted doing something as wantonly outrageous, heinous and disgraceful as parking on double yellows for three minutes in a supermarket car-park, a horde of self righteous goody two-shoes (who themselves would never ever dream of trangressing even the most minor rule, regulation or advisory notice and clearly live a blameless life) everyone emerges out of the woodwork and from under sundry rocks and bridges to exhibit gross shock and censure.
Yet, in my experience, when the said emergency services are doing their damnedest to extricate someone from under a train or down a cliff face or 100 feet up collapsed scaffolding or in a burning building or from a tunnel filled with toxic gas ... all circumstances where every other b***** is running in the opposite direction .... then strangely no-one seems to complain about them. All of a sudden everyone loves them, they say they're heroes, they pat them on the back and say "I couldn't do your job for all the tea in China" ... but, go and pick up a cold drink and leave your truck outside for a minute in an area where mere mortals aren't supposed to park ... and all hell is let loose.
OK, go ahead and slag me off, but do so in the knowledge that I rate the complainants as displaying mock outrage purely for the sake of it and clearly haven't got anything of significance going on at the moment otherwise they might see how pathetic they appear.
I don't park on double yellows and if I did and got a ticket for it then I wouldn't complain.
If they're on a job, then it's fine, they have their exemptions from that.
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Strange how when there occurs a (very occasional) instance of an emegency crew spotted doing something as wantonly outrageous, heinous and disgraceful as parking on double yellows for three minutes in a supermarket car-park, a horde of self righteous goody two-shoes (who themselves would never ever dream of trangressing even the most minor rule, regulation or advisory notice and clearly live a blameless life) everyone emerges out of the woodwork and from under sundry rocks and bridges to exhibit gross shock and censure.
Yet, in my experience, when the said emergency services are doing their damnedest to extricate someone from under a train or down a cliff face or 100 feet up collapsed scaffolding or in a burning building or from a tunnel filled with toxic gas ... all circumstances where every other b***** is running in the opposite direction .... then strangely no-one seems to complain about them. All of a sudden everyone loves them, they say they're heroes, they pat them on the back and say "I couldn't do your job for all the tea in China" ... but, go and pick up a cold drink and leave your truck outside for a minute in an area where mere mortals aren't supposed to park ... and all hell is let loose.
OK, go ahead and slag me off, but do so in the knowledge that I rate the complainants as displaying mock outrage purely for the sake of it and clearly haven't got anything of significance going on at the moment otherwise they might see how pathetic they appear.
Agree with every word you said KB.
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"I don't park on double yellows and if I did and got a ticket for it then I wouldn't complain."
I'm very confident that you don't. Nor have you ever done anything slightly risky or mischevious like not renewing your library books on time, never overstayed a parking meter coz the queue in the shop was a bit longer than you planned for and never broken any of the Ten Commandments.
Good for you. I applaud your rectitude and moral fidelity.
When I was at work I always carried all the manuals, rulebooks, updates, directives etc etc but every so often , when there was someone bleeding to death or the skin was dripping from his face due to the burns or a bloke's wife/husband/daughter was hanging from a rope having hung themself from a wardrobe door ... only very occasionally... did the rule book have to stay put. For which I apologise to you ... clearly the rules should have been adhered to.
Edited by KB. on 26/07/2018 at 23:30
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I’ve never really understood why I have to stick £4 in the parking meter every working day yet the bloke next to me with the new £50k BMW sticks a card thing in the window and doesn’t pay a jot. Are all disabled people poor?
A bit off topic RobertT.
All depends on the rules the Local Authority lay down. Increasingly, disabled badge holders have to pay the same as anyone else in council owned car parks and some on-street bays.
Private car parks rarely give any concessions to disabled badge holders, other than a bigger space nearer the exit/shops/attraction.
However, disabled people can park on double yellow lines in some instances, providing no obstruction is being caused and there are no corresponding yellow lines on the pavement edge perpendicular to the road ones.
Are all disabled people poor? No. Are all disabled people affluent? No
Would you like a life-changing disability just so you can save £20 a week on parking? Doubtful.
Edited by 72 dudes on 27/07/2018 at 14:27
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The crew need to be able to respond as quickly as possible. Would you want them to park at the other side of the car park, potentially delaying a response?
With the radio fitted inside the vehicle, how can they respond if they're inside the supermarket?
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I suppose it hadn't crossed your mind they might have had a radio on them .... no, far too complicated!
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Sorry, KB, your two previous posts are a ridiculous rant, including an excess of extreme adjectives, and attributing all sorts of behaviour to those of us with views different to yours, based on supposition.
I doubt there are any posters here who do not respect the emergency services and the work they do - when they are attending any emergency. It appears this pair weren't, so as fine upstanding members of the public they should toe the lines the rest of us are asked to, shouldn't they?
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You can call my posts whatever you choose ... including 'ridiculous rants' if that's what you wish ... your prerogative. However, I think I should be allowed to choose the adjectives if that's OK with you - provided they'e not offensive ... which I don't think they are ... or am I bound by some unwritten rule that I wasn't aware of which says I'm not permitted to offer a view ... much the same as yourself and all the others who also feel moved to offer an opinion? Oh, darn, I'm forgetting - none of us ever break the rules, do we?
Oh, and I just remembered ... there were occasions when, at work, out in a firm's vehicle, I bought crew members an ice cream on my birthday ... whilst on duty!!! AND ... they also reciprocated on their birthdays too if we were lucky!!! Strictly against the rules, do you not think? What am I to do now? I'll tell you what - I'll write and tell them and beg their mercy. Would that make you feel any better?
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- none of us ever break the rules, do we?
Some of us break the rules deliberately, some of us unintentionally, and some just think it doesn't really matter, so who cares?
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I particularly "like" the black cab / mini cab favourite of slowing down with the hazard lights flashing...
I think it is to keep you guessing whether they are going to pull-up on the left, the right or maybe in the middle of the road?
Why not just indicate like normal people (excluding BMW & Audi drivers of course)? ;)
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It appears this pair weren't, so as fine upstanding members of the public they should toe the lines the rest of us are asked to, shouldn't they?
As I understand it they are on call at all times during a shift so there is no reason why they cannot stop on a yellow/double
quicker they can get back to the ambulance quicker they get to scene
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The crew need to be able to respond as quickly as possible. Would you want them to park at the other side of the car park, potentially delaying a response?
With the radio fitted inside the vehicle, how can they respond if they're inside the supermarket?
By being alerted by the handheld radio each crew member carries.
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