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arry
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PostPosted: 14:09 - 17 Aug 2017    Post subject: Plod dickery on pavement parking clampdown Reply with quote

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-using-bizarre-secret-weapon-10999407

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Police are using an unusual weapon to catch people illegally parking on pavements.

Officers took to the streets armed BUGGIES as part of a crack-down on motorists who continually block pavements.

The officers will be pushing prams down the pavement, and if they cannot get them past a vehicle they will hand out fines.


I'm sure the law aficionado Sir Roger of Borgville will pick the bones out of this one. Unnecessary Obstruction offence? Is it unnecessary when if they'd parked off the pavement it would have blocked the road instead?

Either way, if they're making their own rules up for it nowadays you can be it won't be long before bikers are being 'fined' for obstructing pavements whilst using the only available street furniture there is to avoid having their machine pinched.
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PostPosted: 14:14 - 17 Aug 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

at least they have somewhere to keep their donuts now
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PostPosted: 14:34 - 17 Aug 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

People who park their car on the pavement are cunts. If there's no room to park there because you'd block the road then don't fucking park there.
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PostPosted: 14:36 - 17 Aug 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

and yet there are people on mopeds throwing acid in peoples face in London with an understaffed police force...... fucking raging.. smh
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PostPosted: 14:44 - 17 Aug 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

ScaredyCat wrote:
If there's no room to park there because you'd block the road then don't fucking park there.

Ah but if they don't park there like an antisocial cunt then some other cunt will.
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PostPosted: 14:50 - 17 Aug 2017    Post subject: Re: Plod dickery on pavement parking clampdown Reply with quote

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Officers took to the streets armed BUGGIES as part of a crack-down on motorists who continually block pavements.


Armed buggies? That's a bit extreme, for a parking offence.



Can I still take the wheels off my bike and lie it down on the pavement?
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PostPosted: 15:05 - 17 Aug 2017    Post subject: Re: Plod dickery on pavement parking clampdown Reply with quote

arry wrote:
I'm sure the law aficionado Sir Roger of Borgville will pick the bones out of this one.

Too rageface over the repeated mis-use of "fine" to think rationally or use first person pronoun.

OK, the offence is without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstructs the free passage along a highway.

Which is delightfully vague and could be applied to stopping anywhere on any part of the highway, or to the free passage of any class of road users. There's no reason that footists or Davroses can't use the carriageway, so this whole "armed carriage" stuff is presumably built on top of case law, or just naked assertion.

Highways Act 1835 prohibits wilfully [driving] any carriage of any description upon any footpath or causeway by the side of any road made or set apart for the use or accommodation of foot passengers, and the exemption for parking is vague and doesn't clearly apply to the 1835 offence.

It's a big old mess, but at least the 2015 attempt to clean it up by adding even more laws died in committee.
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PostPosted: 16:50 - 18 Aug 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

That buggy looked very skinny, what happens if you're needing to get your wheelchair through those tiny gaps, or you've been blinded in an acid attack, how are you going to walk alongside your Seepal®™?
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PostPosted: 10:38 - 19 Aug 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article10999420.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Police-are-using-this-bizarre-secret-weapon-to-catch-people-illegally-parking-on-the-pavement.jpg

Surely the owner of the property is at fault for allowing his damned hedge to grow over the pavement by at least 18 inches?
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