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I came across,an interesting little pantomime the other day,passing the Halifax Building Society.One of our intrepid traffic wardens was berating an errant motorist for parking in an exclusion zone.Bravo we may think,but the errant motorist was in fact a Securicor guard attempting to deliver cash to the premises.
He tried to explain that he had thousands in cash,only to be told to park elsewhere.
What a crazy world this is.:rolleyes:

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What a complete and utter idiot. The Securicor vans have always parked as close to the banks as possible for security reasons. You carry thousands of pounds in plastic bags as short as distance as possible.

It's as bad as the one in the paper where a mobile blood donor truck/van/lorry/thing got booked. :rolleyes:

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Presumably this was the cash delivery to pay Britcliffes personnal expenses for the week?

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Does anybody have any idea what sort of qualifications are required to be a traffic warden?? If any??

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I don't know about Accy, but in London you have to be a registered asylum seeker.

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Here's their website, but it don't tell you how to become a traffic warden
http://www.parkwise.org.uk/index.asp

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qualifications required to be a traffic warden (1) you must be totally stupid(anyone with an iq go away) (2) you must not be aware of societys needs.(3) you must be totally uncaring and oblivious to normal life.thats all you need apply now lol

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Just found these two gems
http://www.learndirect-advice.co.uk/...les/profile49/
http://www.s1jobs.com/news/archive/2...11-37-41.shtml

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Hmmmm, requirements include:

assertiveness and common sense,
the ability to think clearly and react sensibly under pressure,
patience, tact and a sense of humour.

What went wrong?

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I know there has to be some exceptions but it is not brain surgery.
If you don't want a parking ticket then don't park where you should not.
Simple, like Traffic Wardens :D

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Like I said. Simple, like Traffic Wardens. They don't appear to venture far from the town centre. Maybe they like to stay where it is more crowded for safety reasons.

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Actually, I have a theory that it is brain surgery. In order to become a trafic warden, one must submit to an operation that removes part of your brain and most of your personality.

BTW, in New York City, they are often called "brownies," due to the fact that their brown uniforms are different from those worn by the real police.

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Or where giving out parking tickets is easy? If Accrington is like our towns here, finding legal parking is pretty easy once you get away from the town center (forgive my Yank spelling, please). Like the man said, if you want to go elephant hunting, you'd better go where the elephants are.

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on blackburn rd from the george onwards daily there are cars illegally parked causing obstuction,you never see the wardens on there- the police said it was a problem months ago,and they had a purge which lasted about a week that was it.but really the police have more important things to deal with its the job of these PLEBS.

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Over here they used to have yellow lines on their hats to stop you parking on them :D.
Now they are green lines. I can't find green lines in the highway code so I think they must be fair game.

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Easy pickings, plus a load of brewing stops an they are safer in numbers.
Was in accy centre on friday and watched a T warden walk past a car parked on yellow lines and on pavement, thought he's gota book this one but no.......on his merry way he walked

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Of course it was his own car.

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You would have known if he was working out his bonus.
He would have been sat on the floor with his shoes and socks off so he could use his toes for counting as well as his fingers.

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:rofl38: :rofl38: :rofl38: :rofl38: nice one

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does anyone know what time securicor usualy deliver to the halifax please

i cant move as fast as i once could but now they have further to walk to the bank i may just make it

god bless the stupidity of traffic warderns ime a gonna be rich i tells ya

RICH :D

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4 no parents.

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sorry bob forgot that one was rushing

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Reminds me of the old joke,"I used to want to be a traffic warden."
"What happened,fail the intelligence test?"
"No they found out my parents were married!

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Was told a story about Royal Mail cash delivery in Burnley several years ago. The driver was driving onto pedestrian area to deliver to Kierby Walk when stopped by a Traffic warden who told him he would book him if he put one wheel on the pavement. The driver replied "See this tragger in my hand, If I push it & drop it, within a minute you will be surrounded by every copper in Burnley who will want to know what the hell you are doing. As for me I will be several streets away to leave you to do the explaining so make your choice, back off or face the consequences." If these idiots cannot use a minute bit of common sense then I wouldn't even give them an explanation,just press & depart.
Has anyone noticed too that Traffic warden is made up of the first two letters of TWIT!
This may also be a perfect job for failed referees too.

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"In the "Good old days" Traffic wardens came under the jurisdiction of the local police force.......and like the local bobby, used common sense and judgement.

Now it is big business as the councils award contracts to private firms to enforce the "law" as they see fit! We all hate the traffic wardens but remember, they are "only doing their job" and would be made unemployed if they used discretion..........The people who are at fault are the council that choose to receive payment from private contractors to do a job that WE the electorate pay the council to do............

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I cannot help but wonder had he done so, how long would it actually have taken for the police to arrive? On past performance the Traffic Warden may well have found himself with a nice little bonus that day.:D

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This was in the days of proper policing. Belive me the only bonus the idiot would have got would have been his p60 & a good bo*****ing from his boss, who by then should have had one from a senior police officer.

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The IQ of a concussed goldfish???

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Similar to a wall paper machine engineer I think :D

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