Posted on 05/27/2013 11:01:47 AM PDT by Olog-hai
This was the moment traffic wardens swooped outside a church and slapped parking tickets on cars while their owners were at morning mass.
Members of the congregation—some of them in wheelchairs—could be seen arguing with the unrepentant wardens for 30 minutes.
But the council workers, who had even targeted cars with blue disabled badges, which were allowed to park, refused to back down.
The bizarre scene unfolded on Sunday morning outside Our Lady and St. Hubert church in Oldbury, West Midlands. …
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It seems that previously, parking had been permitted on this street, but had been recently made into a “red route.” Although it had a severe impact on the church and its parishioners, no one consulted with the church, or even bothered to formally inform the church or its parishioners, of the change.
Then the first Sunday this went into effect, the government sent a large force of welfare-takers..., er..., “traffic wardens” to make lots of extra revenue for the government. As there was significant confusion among the parishioners, and some number of them parked there because they were handicapped and could not readily walk from the further-out, now-only-legal-parking, they believed an exception had been granted for them.
But rather than trying to work things out in a way that produced comity and understanding, the arrogant slob welfare-takers, er..., “traffic wardens” wrote up the tickets anyway.
Arrogant bastard government at work for an arrogant bastard government that is quickly losing its legitimacy.
Come the revolution, folks will kill ‘em all (government workers) and let God sort ‘em out.
sitetest
“government at work” = “government workers at work”
The question is: Do they also harrass the worshippers (sic) at the various mosques? Doubt it.
The red line is new, only two weeks old, the church not notified. Is it a good policy to redline a church? And surely the first week of enforcement might be better handled by warnings rather than tickets.
One also notes that the parking enforcement team are immigrants - the neighborhood bobby with a relationship to the locals is long gone.
I don’t know if people with handicapped placards are allowed to park on a red line in England - some of the church goers seem to be saying they may.
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That’s why they got parking tickets for disturbing the peace.
Don’t they have these things called quangos in Britain which are supposed to facilitate gummit to neighborhood relations? I guess the worshipers didn’t have the clout in the quango they needed to keep that from happening? Stinks.
“Assuming you’re correct...that it was a *clearly* marked “no parking” zone...then perhaps it’s OK.But at the very least they could have let the folks who had handicapped placards off with just a warning. “
I would have let them off with a warning but I’ve never seen a parking cop do that. It’s that whole revenue generation thing they’ve got going.
“Do they do this outside mosques on Friday?”
I wouldn’t know that. I’ve never even seen a mosque.
“The red line is new, only two weeks old, the church not notified. Is it a good policy to redline a church? And surely the first week of enforcement might be better handled by warnings rather than tickets.”
Now that sounds like a scam to me. Don’t tell anyone and then swoop in with your revenue agents.
Come on Freepers. Most of you are U.S. citizens. This is the U.K. This is why we had our revolution. This could not happen here.............uh! oh! time for a reboot.
Saw a story the other day about police writing parking tickets for cars that were burned out in a riot the night before. Stockholm, I believe.
Yes, I saw that. Disgusting.
Parking Nazis!
Revenuers.
I bet they’d never do that outside a mosque.
The Muslims come on flying carpets, which can be stacked up inside the mosque.
At least things have improved since Queen Elizabeth I. They aren’t being hanged, drawn, and quartered for contact with a Catholic priest.
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