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These are actual comments made by Georgia State Troopers that were taken off their car videos:1. "You know, stop lights don't come any redder than the one you just went through."2. "Relax, the handcuffs are tight because they're new. They'll stretch after you wear them a while."3. "If you take your hands off the car, I'll make your birth certificate a worthless document."4. "If you run, you'll only go to jail tired."5. "Can you run faster than 1200 feet per second? Because that's the speed of the bullet that will be chasing you."6. "You don't know how fast you were going? I guess that means I can write anything I want to on the ticket, huh?"7. "Yes, sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but I don't think it will help. Oh, did I mention that I'm the shift supervisor?"8. "Warning! You want a warning? O.K, I'm warning you not to do that again or I'll give you another ticket."9. "The answer to this last question will determine whether you are drunk or not. Was Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?"10. "Fair? You want me to be fair? Listen, fair is a place where you go to ride on rides, eat cotton candy and corn dogs and step in monkey poop."11. "Yeah, we have a quota. Two more tickets and my wife gets a toaster oven."12. "In God we trust; all others we run through NCIC." ( National Crime Information Center )13. "Just how big were those 'two beers' you say you had?"14. "No sir, we don't have quotas anymore. We used to, but now we're allowed to write as many tickets as we can."15. "I'm glad to hear that the Chief (of Police) is a personal friend of yours. So you know someone who can post your bail."AND THE WINNER IS....16. "You didn't think we give pretty women tickets? You're right, we don't. Sign here."

Graham Weeks ● 3365d18 Comments ● 3331d

New hazard for Ealing motorists -  Avoid Springbridge Road MSCP

Be very wary of parking in the Council's Springbridge Road car park.  I got a parking ticket last week for parking in the new private car park the council has designated for the local NHS CCG inside the car park itself.  There are 20 poorly signed bays on the 5th floor for the exclusive use of the NHS CCG.  They park a row of shiny new BMWs and Mercs up there.  The blue floor treatment is exactly the same as the rest of the car park so it is not very obvious that this is a separate private car park.  The shiny new BMWs and Mercs carry no special badges so that offers no clue to the unwary.  My offence was "85 Parked without clearly displaying a valid permit where required".  Well as it happens none of the CCG vehicles were displaying any kind of permit either.  I paid for my ticket and went off into town.  It is how you use town centre car parks.  You do not expect to have to negotiate additional restrictions inside.  The day I got done I was one of 5 people with tickets in the same 20 space area.  The next day I popped back and another 2 cars had tickets.  Clearly this new feature of the car park is trappy.  And the parking people will surely know this from their stats.  It is pretty bent.  Town centre car parking is a rare commodity and I am not aware of the council doing any public consultation on whether the public should lose 20 spaces to one organisation.  Why can't the high panjandrums of the NHS CCG take their chances with parking like everyone else?  Anyway pay and display car parks are hazardous enough without introducing new traps inside them.  Avoid Springbridge Road MSCP.

Phil Taylor ● 3350d10 Comments ● 3343d