I think the council's use parking fines as a source of income as opposed to fixing the problem. Unfortunately that doesn't work if the people don't pay the fines and if they aren't registered in their own names they aren't going to. Recently the police here stopped a van that was unregistered, uninsured, and unsafe, it had £16000 worth of unpaid parking fines linked to the vehicle.
You're right about repercussions. I don't wish to antagonise, but, people do that to us regularly. Someone parked up the drive next door, in front of a garage. When the garage owner came, he parked in front, to block them in. The driver of the offending vehicle then tried to squeeze through a gap, knocking down our six-foot high brick wall. I was more than annoyed, because not only did our insurers penalise us for making a claim, but I had to clear the bricks, because it all fell on our drive, blocking us in!! I've not seen the driver since, and she blames the man who blocked her in, even though she was on his drive, blocking his garage! SOME PEOPLE!!
If you ever watch those police programmes, you see that the fines etc have no effect, or very little, when it comes to the repeat offenders. They just don't care, and they rely on the fact that there simply isn't enough police monitoring the roads, so they'll mostly get away with it. As you say @WonkyWomble, even if they do get caught, they just don't pay the fines. It's everyone else who's honest and decent that's paying for it, just by a less direct route. The driving bans are another pointless method of deterring them. They just get back in their cars and do it all again....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We once came home and found a strange car parked on our very small drive. @lmost immediately a chap came out of a neighbouring house and said the neighbour had said he could park there!! Er.....NO!!! He soon moved it.
Builders sweeping out the backs of their vans can be a nuisance … all those flat-headed screws that stand upright on their heads just waiting for a tyre to impale itself upon them. A few of those and some sawdust and wood shavings to point in that sort of direction … as long as there’s none of those doorbell cameras around 🤔
Did I really say that? How devious am I? 😇
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Builders sweeping out the backs of their vans can be a nuisance … all those flat-headed screws that stand upright on their heads just waiting for a tyre to impale itself upon them. A few of those and some sawdust and wood shavings to point in that sort of direction … as long as there’s none of those doorbell cameras around 🤔
Did I really say that? How devious am I? 😇
There are definitely some cameras about. Next door to us has a doorbell camera, plus three at roof level, looking left, right, and straight down to the front garden. Across the road has a doorbell camera. We avoid such things, even though our place has a drive and side exit from the garden. I like to believe that people are honest and trustworthy. The reality tends to be different!!
I know exactly what you mean … and we must be thankful that such gadgets are about, keeping us behaving like the forbearing and upstanding citizens we really are 😉
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Someone parked up the drive next door, in front of a garage. When the garage owner came, he parked in front, to block them in. The driver of the offending vehicle then tried to squeeze through a gap, knocking down our six-foot high brick wall.
I was more than annoyed, because not only did our insurers penalise us for making a claim, but I had to clear the bricks, because it all fell on our drive, blocking us in!!
I've not seen the driver since, and she blames the man who blocked her in, even though she was on his drive, blocking his garage!
SOME PEOPLE!!
As you say @WonkyWomble, even if they do get caught, they just don't pay the fines.
It's everyone else who's honest and decent that's paying for it, just by a less direct route. The driving bans are another pointless method of deterring them. They just get back in their cars and do it all again....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
… as long as there’s none of those doorbell cameras around 🤔
Did I really say that? How devious am I? 😇
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Across the road has a doorbell camera. We avoid such things, even though our place has a drive and side exit from the garden.
I like to believe that people are honest and trustworthy. The reality tends to be different!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.