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Ooh ooh, ask me how my motoring day went...
Well, thanks for asking, I went to watch my son and his friend play a school football match this afternoon and when we got back to the car it wasn't there.
For overseas readers.. the UK has 'issues' with too many cars not enough space. In London motorists are hunted and persecuted by speed humps, cameras, congestion charging and armies of zealous parking attendents. One of the most car-hating boroughs is Camden...where we were.
Camden parking attendents are notorious. There have been several secret filming tv documentaries recently about their 'enthusiastic' approach to the job! I know most of their tricks (parking meters set five minutes fast, that sort of thing) so I've managed to avoid them so far, but today I fell into one of their traps. (a really sneaky one too, apparently they make a lot of money on that street!)
Anyway the long and the short of it is I spent the rest of the day (till 7.00pm) trying to get a fax of my documents to prove it was my car before they would release it from the car pound (you'd think that since I have the key that would be enough!) and then I had to pay the ransom.
£200! (USD 347)
I was expecting, gulp, a £150 release fee. But it turns out that some gleeful parking attendent slaps a ticket on it first, which you also have to pay (£50. Unless you complain in which case it is £100)! And then, once there's a ticket on it (which of course I don't know about. I'm watching football happy in the knowledge I've paid for 2hrs on the parking meter 10 feet from the car) if a removal truck spots it, they can kidnap it and charge a further £150 ransom. Double-whammy.
Joys of urban life.
How much did they screw you for, Essex Boy?
I was worried for a while. My clean license was in threatened.
Ok, I found the login.
very funny
Quite revealing
Heh heh 'Quite Crap'
I typed in 4 cars that I scrapped in the mid 90s and they all show up as doing 81.7mph in Cleveland. I know they are not ringers as none of them got sold on. Ha ha ha. And my old van which has a maximum speed of about 65mph was also clocked at 81.7mph
Ha
Ska
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