23 February (Part 2) - Don’t get angry, get even
A
man drove through Sidcup late on a Sunday night and pulled over to use
a cash machine. He was on his way a minute later but unknown to him he had been
filmed by one of Craske’s gestapo wagons and was sent a penalty notice through
the post. His offence? A wheel had gone up on the kerb just a bit. Bexley
council, unreasonable as ever, said he had parked on the pavement and rejected
his appeal. However the Adjudicator at The Parking and Traffic Appeals Service
thought otherwise and said he was guilty only of “imprecise driving” and that the
offence was “too trivial and too minor” to warrant any action. Another waste of
money perpetrated by the liar Craske.
What can be done about the greed of Bexley’s council, their constant
incompetence and the poisonous dwarf Craske? One of my correspondents wrote to
the Tax Payers’ Alliance which has featured Bexley’s stupidity several times and
they encouraged him to organise protest groups outside the Civic Centre. Protests
do seem to have had some effect elsewhere and several times recently I have received
messages from groups who have organised protests in other towns.
One of these specifically targets gestapo wagons which it calls scameras. They act
entirely within the law and even get police approval of their activities
beforehand. The stated aim is to ensure the gestapo wagons operate entirely
within the law too and to this end they shadow them on motorcycles, with
video cameras and the like, from the moment they leave their depot to the moment
they return at night. I held off on giving this one publicity while I looked
into how legal it all was but it seems OK and has gone off without any trouble
in just a handful of towns so far. The group judges Bexley to be among the country’s
top authorities when it comes to parking malpractice and thinks we should be
next on its list. However it would help get things underway if they knew where
the cars are garaged overnight and where their ‘hotspots’ are. The report above
suggests Sidcup High Street on a Sunday night may be one and
Blackfen Road
almost any time certainly is, but where do Bexley’s four scamera cars go at the
end of the day? And where are their regular ‘hotspots’? If they can be told, a
group of motorcyclists is ready to ensure that Bexley’s gestapo wagons operate safely and within the law.
There is an amusing (?) video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ADTL6Se22w
showing how Westminster council put up both turn left and straight ahead notices
at a road junction and parked a scamera there to issue fines to drivers who went
straight ahead. It’s a nice trick worthy of the purple pygmy himself. If you
think the group should target Bexley next we must find out where those cameras
are parked overnight and find out where they regularly lurk during the day and allow the
NoToMob group to keep a friendly eye on them. It may be a rare chance to get on nearer to
even terms with Craske’s evil activities.