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if you go by car to buy tickets dont be surprised if you get a parking ticket.
 the parking warden lurks about waiting to pounce.
the jobs worth seems to get a kick out of the easy tickets he can hand out down there.

did you get one arriba?

Park in the slanted spaces against the wall right outside and you should be ok as its technically staff parking. I think.

SHHHHH dont tell everyone .... oh bugger! :roll:

I had a dream last night my car got crushed by the wardnes in Old Town.

Its got so bad now I usually get away with a cheeky grin and Im so sorry madam, they are jobsworths!

Hardly going to be a surge of Swindonians descending on the ticket office now is there!

Fuck me, what were you doing buying all 14,000 seats?

It takes 2 minutes, just keep an eye out.

i have a simply fix to the problem. DON'T BREAK THE PARKING RULES!. I hate people who moan when they get a parket ticket 90% of the time it is because you broke the rules. Get over it!!! I've had one aprking ticket and that was beacuse I parked in a disbaled bay. I knew I shouldn't but thought I'd give it a go I lost fiar play.

Bollocks. Parking in a disabled bay is a lot different from parking in an empty car park for 5 minutes.

A 10 minute grace period in the latter is common sense. If people are getting ticketed straight off the fucking jobsworth deserves all the grief he or she will get.

5, 10, 15, 20 where do you draw the line. The rules are the rules if you wanna park in this empty space you must complie with the rules if you don't you'll get punished. Simply "if you can't do the time don't do the crime" or in your case stop being a pikey and pay the £1 or whatever it is to park.

oh I also forgot to say I had a disabled passanger at the time.

It's 20p to park there for an hour. I'm sure it wont break your bank.

20p!!!! legs to stand on none!

i didn't realise it was a pay and display car park :?

As you say rules are rules (use of common sense is no defense) - it's also against the rules to enter the CG whilst intoxicated, therefore I presume you agree everyone should be breathalysed before entering? I'm just wondering at what point you suggest deciding if people are too drunk:

10, 35, 50 or 100 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath?

I think that parking where you shouldn't and having a few beers before going to the football are very different things and trying to lump them together is a really bad way of making an argument.

As for the parking thing, drivers generally piss me off anyway. The way they seem to think they've got rights everywhere. Especially when they glare at me when I'm using crossings and stuff. Just makes me walk slower on Zebra crossing you cunt.

For that reason I fully support the "jobsworth" who does their job by giving you a ticket where you shouldn't have parked.

Think you'd probably make a good parking warden Ben!

Dodging the Magic Roundabout on match day?  :D

The point is Ben,  that you can't use the 'rules are rules' argument and then treat it as an a la carte menu as you see fit. Batch rightly pointed out that common sense comes into play in certain situations, after all the HMRC have certain rules about paying tax on time... er need I go further?

Bollocks to that. I'll park t'other side of the bollards where it's outside the pay and display remit.

Rules may be rules, but to target people for something so petty as a 2 minute stop in an empty car park is purely and simply jobsworth/money making. End of story.

If I leave my car there, if I park on double yellows, or in a disabled bay then I expect to be done. It's easy to define a line between common sense and taking the piss. 10 minutes. There, job done.
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Also, if you had a disabled passenger then it was twattish not to display the blue badge.

Exactly, and the common sense thing to do in the parking situation is to get a ticket. It's one of your responsibilities as a driver.

You are "fun bobby" from friends (erm, my misses told me about him). This must be a sober moment right now.

Aha, you are  :fishing:

It will probably take longer to walk to the parking meter than get a matchday ticket you fucking parking nazi.

semii-fishing maybe. Drivers moaning about stuff do my head in. I'll give you that the parking tickets moan isn't as bad as the speed camera or I deserve cheap petrol ones, but it still does my head in.

Council/whoever run car park. Want you to pay to park there. You don't want to pay but park there anyway. "I don't deserve a ticket" you cry angrily.

Doesn't really work.

It's like me deciding I'm allowed into a night club for free and then complaining when I get kicked out by the bouncers.

"Breakdown" on the magic roundabout for a few minutes, just pop the hazards on.

You only hate drivers beacause you are too poor to own a car.

Nasty thing , envy

Fucking layabouts who can't be bothered to learn to drive, then whinge about people who drive, do my head in.

 :wink:

He sounds like a cyclist - the ones that still use the road even though there's cycle path next to them!

Im just going to say that I NEVER will pay to park my car whilst purchasing STFC tickets and I dont care who likes it or not!

You're worse than Hitler, thicko  :D

That's fine, as long as you don't moan about it when you do get a ticket.

And I'm not a cyclist. I don't own a bike either.  :D

i didn't get a ticket.but people have been getting them while getting match tickets from the office.
i was just warning people as matey has been lurking lately.
those that have mentioned the other side of the bollarded area are quite right too.thats where i'm going from now on.

also i'm all for paying my way etc.but for a min or two in a deserted car park?
the bloke pounces and slaps tickets on straight away from what i've been told.

i think ben's found his calling.

The thing is, I'm not going to pay close to a quid for an hours parking when Im going to be there for 2 fucking minutes.

It would take me longer to walk to the ticket machine and back than it would to go in and get my tickets

Car Parkin prices are fucking stupid anyway. In Town I go in and get what I want and take about 20 minutes....why do I have to pay for a minimum of an hour.

And now a lot of place make you put your reg no on the ticket so you can't give it to anyone else...which is annoying for two reasons...

Firstly, I've paid for that space for the time I've paid for, so it should be up to me if I give it someone else.

Secondly, giving tickets to other drivers was a nice thing to do...the council have stopped us doing that, why?  For cash...and for shame.

fuckin' hospital parking fees are cuntish - and the wardens take great joy in nicking the staff.
"Why are you giving me a ticket"  says nurse "cos you are not displaying your staff permit" says Adolf " cos you fuckers were supposed to get it to a month ago" retorts Florence "Not my fault - I've issued the ticket now" whines Adolf.
bunch of cunts - who is responsible for parking in Swindon is it Cllr Peter Greenhalgh?

So it is you GFM !

keep up nev!

Just call me lightning.

lightning