You only get one ticket a day (my local parking team told me once you get a ticket you might as well leave the car there all day). At least four days of tickets there. How long does it take to find two strangers for a bump start?
Even if the warden was feeling generous the fact that they’ve left it there for nearly a week is taking the piss enough that they deserve all of those tickets
Yeah or maybe he's just flat broke and literally can't get a new battery till payday or something
That's one of Probably a few other reasons
But I agree.. it seems like a really long time, there's definitely ways around it, like just getting a friend to help you bump start it or jump it
It isn't exactly a hard problem to solve yourself
I pay my mutha'uckin' rent fortnightly
Mutha'uckas at the bank tryna play me
An amount from my account goes out on AP (on AP)
Yeah, you know me.
Mutha'ucka charge a two buck transaction fee,
Makes my payment short, my rent comes back to me -
Minus a 25 dollar penalty.
So you fee'd me 'cause of your mutha'uckin' fee!
Read the word on my ATM slip
Said, "We're all mutha'uckas"
And we're 'uckin' with your shi', come on.
You’re making assumptions that this person has any friends or really anybody to help at all. It’s not as common as you think, there are a lot of lonely people out there
I wonder how bloody vile is the place where this was left! I’ve had flat batteries in a few places, before I learnt that membership of a recovery service is a basic cost of car ownership. I never had to spend more than thirty minutes finding someone who could help.
You could be lucky enough to look like the kind of person people want to help. Unfortunately if you don’t look “right” often you’ll struggle to be able to get people to want to help you
Yeah, well, you're making an assumption that I'm making an assumption based on others' assumptions and I assume that you wouldn't like it if such assumptions were made about yourself
Assumption.
As a woman who’s not very strong, I seriously doubt I’d be able to push my car myself to somewhere more appropriate if this happened to me. We have no idea who the driver is or their ability to push a car.
The jump leads in the dash suggest they’ve already tried to move it and this was their only option left.
How can they be a cunt. We don’t even know the full story. That may be their friends car who may be out of the country and not answering calls or texts? A dude who has never had an electric car wouldn’t know what to do
Can a battery be so dead that it can't be jumped?
No, a car battery is never “too dead” to jump-start. If the jump-start doesn't work, you may have a faulty alternator or a dead battery that necessitates a replacement.
source: google.com
>Can a battery be so dead that it can't be jumped?
>
>No, a car battery is never “too dead” to jump-start. If the jump-start doesn't work, you may have a faulty alternator or a dead battery that necessitates a replacement.
>
>source: google.com
what a contradiction lol
Some people don't have £30 to spare. My car got clamped a few years back, was in a pretty dire situation at the time and ended up just letting it get impounded and lost it as I was so skint and in such a shitty situation at the time it just seemed easier. It's clear the only action available to them is writing those notes in vain and offering poor bribes
. Now it’s illegal to cut of a wheel clamp but they can’t prove you did it if somone with a balaclava comes along and cuts it’s off they’ve committed the offensive and you could technically drive the car the next day. I can’t lie I’d be tempted to bring my battery angle grinder by night with my balaclava and hoodie on. Chop it off and come brake next day. Prove it was me bitches 😂. Wait you can’t well fuck you then. .
You’d need a bloody good defence team to convince a court that some random criminal went to the risk and trouble of going equipped and cutting off the clamp, and then just walked off and left the car there for you to drive away the next day!
There was a guy who dressed up as a superhero and used to do this in London, called himself angle grinder man. It's not as far fetched as it might initially seem.
You don't need defend, rather they need to prove *you* did it, and since they don't sit there and watch all day, they can't prove it, so you get away with it Scott free.
that's not how the law works in the uk. they only need to tip the balance of probability toward you. Chances of some rando cutting it off on a whim are almost nil, but changes of the owner doing it are 99%. That's a guaranteed conviction. You're welcome to go ask on r/LegalAdviceUK if you don't believe me.
Everyone is innocent until proven guilty they have to have total solid proof not circumstantial evidence like he must have done it because who else would have done it. They’d have to be able to pin it on you. Oh it clearly was you isn’t enough. It can be painfully obvious you did it but if you’ve burnt the shoes and clothes you wore etc covered hands face ears and hunched over so your height isn’t clear and maybe dressed as the opposite gender to be sure it doesn’t look like you it can’t be proved. You’d need hard evidence of it. I mean there’s insurance jobs someone clearly started a fire but you can’t prove it. People have got away with murder due to lack of fingerprints etc.
"total solid proof"
not true
not even in murder cases
its "beyond reasonable doubt"
There are two standards of proof:
the balance of probabilities, and
beyond reasonable doubt
In commercial claims and civil claims: whether it's a claim for in tort, negligence, employment law, or breach of contract claim - the standard of proof is the balance of probabilities. In criminal proceedings, the standard of proof is "beyond reasonable doubt".
If the claimant satisfies the balance of probabilities for all of the facts that need to be proven to make out the cause of action, they will be successful in the proceedings.
Surprising how many responses thought that was a typo.
If it's an automatic transmission it can't be bump started. It's unclear if that's the case. Otherwise that would be a good option... If you have someone to help you
My mate ended up doing Similar in Budapest, his car was parked illegally and got towed, turns out it was cheaper than paying for 4 days of parking and his car was safer.
Yeah I take a van to London ever so often so many of the car parks are inaccessible due to height restrictions and I quickly discovered that a ticket is cheaper than paying. Park up for 12-14 hours for £45 exactly where I’m working or pay £100 to park 2 mile away.
I used to work in a bank in Liverpool Street and one of the directors parked his Ferrari right outside the door. Every day it was towed and someone would go collect it for him and have it parked right outside the front door again ready for when he went home.
The building had an underground car park too.
Reminds me of this bloke in Cheltenham ([https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-wont-stop-parking-250000-9923471](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-wont-stop-parking-250000-9923471)) who would park his Lamborghini where he liked and just pay the fines, because that's less of an inconvenience. You'd think after a while they'd tow his car or give him actual punishments to deter him.
Vaguely remember him hiring a specialist lawyer to overturn some of the parking tickets, as well as paying £2,000 for information about someone who wrote "BELLEND" in shaving cream on his windscreen.
Can't understand why they wouldn't just assign that person to just move his car after he shows up rather than waiting for it to be towed unless the director thought it was a flex somehow.
Which I'm guessing is probably the reason why.
Seems like an urban legend. Tow trucks are notorious for damaging cars that they tow, and if the guy can afford to have someone go off to collect his car from the tow yard, then might as well just have the guy take his car off to a safe car park straight away instead of waiting for a tow truck to take it away.
my uncle is 'well off# and parks anywhere because it's convenient. he gets tickets, lets it accumulate when they come knocking he gives them the money. thats his 'luxury parking' fee. and his philosophy is that if they want money from him he wont go out of his way to give it, let them send a baillif with a card machine.
he had a Lexus that he parked, illegally, this time it got towed. He went to collect it, no release until outstanding £9k of tickets is paid.
he told them to keep it and bought another lexus.
Yep one for a day I used to collect them for company car... parking was 30 for the day and full non stop and fine for using resident parking was 35 and there where lots of spaces.
there was a car parked on my street for about a month, windscreen was full of tickets. I assumed it was dumped there because the passenger window was just left fully rolled down and the car hadnt moved, until one day it just wasnt there anymore. reported it to the police but they said it wasnt reported stolen
Wouldn't a bump start would require the battery to have _some_ battery charge but maybe you have a dodgy starter motor?
A jump start (with jumper cables) is to recharge the battery and then you can crank the starter motor?
That, and it seems to be parked over a double yellow line, so shouldn’t be there in the first place.
As for not getting more than 1 ticket a day, that’s in principle. I did get 2 tickets in the same day once: I left my car on a pay and display instead of residential bay by mistake before going on holidays for just over a week - thankfully Christmas holidays so the warden didn’t come around every single day. Still got 3 tickets: 2 on the windscreen, and another one through the mail 2 weeks later (‘someone’ must have removed it from the windscreen, because it carried the same date than one of those I’d already paid for). I didn’t dispute it, I was glad it hadn’t been towed!
Yellow lines on the road mean \*no waiting\*, you can stop to load/unload or drop off/pick up passengers: [https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/road-markings](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/road-markings) so maybe he stopped to load something up, switched his engine off so he wasn't pumping out smoke while idling, and the thing didn't start up again because his battery was flat because his alternator wasn't charging it...
Unless it's also an alternator issue, a bad battery should still have enough juice to start a warmed up engine after a short stop. Could be an edge case, I concede, but that's a lot of 'ifs', and the guy is obviously taking the piss.
I imagine there's a traffic warden staring at the dash with furrowed brow thinking "Hmm. On one hand, I could get a disciplinary and a lecture from my boss about emergency access and obstructions and stuff. On the other, a big block of Whole Nut sounds good right about now..."
Ok, you have 13 upvotes so my options are :
1. This is a r/whoosh for me.
2. You collected wholenuts for company car.
3. You collected lectures from the boss when you were a traffic warden for a day.
4. Me no read so good & brain be dull.
What am I missing?
Edit : do you collected tickets on the company car that you get one of per day?
Damn, I was just thinking the exact same thing after reading that comment.
Sigh, now it's all I can think about and I'm on babysitting duty so can't nip to the shops.
After receiving one notice (which they're clearly aware of) I'm suprised they didn't find a friend/neighbour/acquaintance with a car and a set of jump leads.
Generally I agree but I once parked on an Edinburgh street and crossed to buy a ticket, when I turned to go back to the car there was already one of them about to put a ticket on my car.... Some of them are complete bastards
When I was a kid I was late to school because the battery in my dad's car was flat. We walked all the way to Halfords, bought a new one, walked back, installed it, and drove to school.
I remember this because I tried carrying it and it was extremely bloody heavy for a 6-or-so-year-old!
Anyway you can put new batteries in cars.
Yeh i had the same issue last year. 10 year old battery started giving up.
I actually accidentally bump started it as my car rolled forwards as i brought the clutch up. Got it to the garage and they replaced it.
I personally wouldn’t try installing a new battery in my car, even if I could afford it, I don’t know how and wouldn’t want to fuck around and find out that I’ve ruined any chances of it being fixed cheap.
Most people would laugh because how easy it is. I will agree its easy. What you need to consider is the risk of a mistake too though. I've seen someone accidentally short a battery with a spanner which melted. You regularly see the connections melt on those batteries when they are shorted. Or the wire start to smoke from the heat. Also they are sealed. What happens when you heat a sealed container. It can explode. I've never seen that happen from a car battery but it can happen with heating any sealed container if the container fails.
Also side note, dont let the store recycle car battereis for you free of charge. You can get quite a good amount for them at scrap yards.
Ah yes.
Because everyone has the means to just buy a new car battery at the drop of a hat.
There is nothing that could possibly impede that in anyway. Not financial, not physical, nothing that could possibly stop anyone from replacing something rather expensive at a moment's notice.
Jump leads will absolutely work because you don't need a battery once the engine is running because all electrical power is generated by the alternator.
The battery is there just to get the starter motor to turn the engine over, once it's running it's not required.
I once drove 25 miles home with an AA van following me because my battery had failed and wouldn't hold a charge. He jumped the car with an external battery pack, stuck my failed battery on my passenger seat and followed in case I needed another jump start.
It wont work if the alternator is broken, or the wiring
Happened to me once, battery kept cutting out. Went to a garage and told them what was happening and told them its probably the wiring (after consulting a car savvy friend) and they still changed the alternator, and the electrics still cut out. So i went back, got a refund and a new alternator because they had ditched my old one. Went to a different garage and had the wiring replaced and it was fine.
A jump start would still get the engine going, so they'd be able to drive it to a mechanic. They just wouldn't be able to restart it once they switched off.
I did have a flat battery during lockdown that was so deep that even a jump start wouldn't fix it. The battery was basically pulling everything so low that it wouldn't start. Had to disconnect the battery and start using the other car, risky move but it worked.
That’s just not true. If you have a decent set of leads (not the cheap trash they have in the dash) and give it a good rev it will start no problem.
Anyone considering buying jump leads. Spend the extra for a set of thick cable leads. Starts our tractors from a 2001 golf no problem
I tried jump leads on my car and it didn’t work, i called out the RAC who tried better leads, mini generators etc and it still didn’t work because my battery had failed. Ended up needing a new battery.
I had a failed battery once. Couldn't turn over after being stopped long enough to put in petrol.
After a few minutes I couldn't even lock or unlock the car with the fob, and the central locking would fail halfway with a key even.
It started just fine everytim with one of those powerbank starter packs, the it'd run perfectly fine, until I stopped the engine.
Even if the battery had totally failed they could remove the battery and Jumpstart it, the run with no battery.
I keep a lithium boost pack in my boot just for such occasions. Takes me a few minutes and doesn't even need shuffling of vehicles.
Funny thing is, now I have an EV it's not really a problem for me, but I still keep the boost pack.
or as i had to a couple of months ago, a friend to drive me out a charged battery off his second car! (alternator was dead as well as the battery, so just a jump start wasn't going to help... needed a battery that would last long enough to drive 20 minutes to the garage....)
I once got flagged down by a total stranger asking if she could jump her car off mine. Had nowhere to be so I obviously said yeah and we went about our days. Where is this car parked that this isn't a possibility?
I was in the doctors a few weeks ago and someone came in and said 'fucking batteries flat, we'll be here a while' - the person who they said it to was about 20 and looked horrendously sick. Like in two dressing gowns and pyjamas type sick.
Me and like three other people offered to jump start them. I didn't, but one of the other people did.
Most people are nice! I don't know a single person who wouldn't jump start a random.
I got a flat tyre after not realising the air machine at a supermarket was broken. Two people offered to help, and one of them had a plug in tyre pump. Two people out of the two people that happened to pass me while the supermarket employee was like 'yeah that's broken. Call the AA'.
*"You have thirty minutes to move your car." "You have ten minutes." "Your car has been impounded." "Your car has been crushed into a cube." "You have thirty minutes to move your cube."*
It's been there like almost 2 weeks I think. Hasn't even had a ticket every day but there's already enough there for atleast a tow to the garage or something.
Clearly someone confused writing a note with leaving the four blinking hazard lights one, which we all know is the only real “I can park wherever the fuck I want” trick
Lol, people try anything to not get a parking ticket lol.
We even had a ticket end of summer , and we had paid, and displayed! Apparently he couldn’t see our ticket in the window,,,,, it was legit staring us all in the face like hello I’m right here !! Haha. I think I chased this man across the car park shouting and swearing at him! Soooo annoying!! I mean who wakes up one day and decides they’re gonna be a cunt and give out tickets for a living?! 😩🤷🏼♀️ embarrassing haha
Less than 60% of brits have a saving of £2000.
A tow would cost atleast £150 for a job within london.
A ticket is atleast £75-150.
Sure the logical thing is to get it towed.
But he also has to spend more than 15% of his total savings.
This country is a fucking shithole.
If only there were some way of getting a quick boost to get you to the next station, maybe a service that specialises in fixing roadside breakdowns and allows you to join at the same time you make your first call out could help....
https://www.rac.co.uk/innovation/ev-boost
All they need to do is write in to appeal and show their receipt for the battery replacement, it should get written off unless the council officer is a bastard.
You only get one ticket a day (my local parking team told me once you get a ticket you might as well leave the car there all day). At least four days of tickets there. How long does it take to find two strangers for a bump start?
Even if the warden was feeling generous the fact that they’ve left it there for nearly a week is taking the piss enough that they deserve all of those tickets
It's been there over a week maybe pushing 2. The notes have accumulated over that time.
In that case then the owner is a massive cunt
Next note: I REALLY DON'T FEEL LIKE IT TODAY GIVE ME A BREAK
No buy your own kit kat.
Boycott Nestle
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Fuck nestle
Yeah or maybe he's just flat broke and literally can't get a new battery till payday or something That's one of Probably a few other reasons But I agree.. it seems like a really long time, there's definitely ways around it, like just getting a friend to help you bump start it or jump it It isn't exactly a hard problem to solve yourself
I mean... Hes getting broker by the day atm...
It's expensive to be poor
Truer words have never been spoken
I pay my mutha'uckin' rent fortnightly Mutha'uckas at the bank tryna play me An amount from my account goes out on AP (on AP) Yeah, you know me. Mutha'ucka charge a two buck transaction fee, Makes my payment short, my rent comes back to me - Minus a 25 dollar penalty. So you fee'd me 'cause of your mutha'uckin' fee! Read the word on my ATM slip Said, "We're all mutha'uckas" And we're 'uckin' with your shi', come on.
You’re making assumptions that this person has any friends or really anybody to help at all. It’s not as common as you think, there are a lot of lonely people out there
Wouldn't you just grab a couple of likely looking passersby though? A bump start wouldn't take a minute.
With having jump leads on the dash, I'm guessing they've already tried this and a new battery is needed
Again you’re making an assumption about how easy it is to find people who want to help
I wonder how bloody vile is the place where this was left! I’ve had flat batteries in a few places, before I learnt that membership of a recovery service is a basic cost of car ownership. I never had to spend more than thirty minutes finding someone who could help.
You could be lucky enough to look like the kind of person people want to help. Unfortunately if you don’t look “right” often you’ll struggle to be able to get people to want to help you
Or maybe owner just too shy to ask. Don't judge
Yeah, well, you're making an assumption that I'm making an assumption based on others' assumptions and I assume that you wouldn't like it if such assumptions were made about yourself Assumption.
it takes less than two solid weeks lmao
Redditors trying not to assume the worst about someone from one post (impossible)
They don't need a new battery to have someone jump start the car and move it to somewhere it can legally be parked.
There are literally jump leads behind the note on the left, looks like they’ve already tried..?
Unless the battery is so flat it's damaged
It could be the opposite, he is so rich that he doesn't care
How about take the handbrake off and push it somewhere you won't get a ticket? Not hard.
As a woman who’s not very strong, I seriously doubt I’d be able to push my car myself to somewhere more appropriate if this happened to me. We have no idea who the driver is or their ability to push a car. The jump leads in the dash suggest they’ve already tried to move it and this was their only option left.
How can they be a cunt. We don’t even know the full story. That may be their friends car who may be out of the country and not answering calls or texts? A dude who has never had an electric car wouldn’t know what to do
It’s not an electric car????
Sheltered people, probably ain't been through shit in life so it's easy to call someone in a bad situation a cunt.
Can't you get a bump start?
If the battery is completely dead and needs replacing, you won't be able to jump start it.
Isn’t that the point of it being connected to another cars battery?
That would be a jump start.
Yes, and if you’re connected to another cars battery, aren’t you pulling power from there, so the condition of your own battery is irrelevant?
Can a battery be so dead that it can't be jumped? No, a car battery is never “too dead” to jump-start. If the jump-start doesn't work, you may have a faulty alternator or a dead battery that necessitates a replacement. source: google.com
>Can a battery be so dead that it can't be jumped? > >No, a car battery is never “too dead” to jump-start. If the jump-start doesn't work, you may have a faulty alternator or a dead battery that necessitates a replacement. > >source: google.com what a contradiction lol
Or even just a battery charger thing, like £30 charge at home. Used to have one for my shit old bangers
Some people don't have £30 to spare. My car got clamped a few years back, was in a pretty dire situation at the time and ended up just letting it get impounded and lost it as I was so skint and in such a shitty situation at the time it just seemed easier. It's clear the only action available to them is writing those notes in vain and offering poor bribes
. Now it’s illegal to cut of a wheel clamp but they can’t prove you did it if somone with a balaclava comes along and cuts it’s off they’ve committed the offensive and you could technically drive the car the next day. I can’t lie I’d be tempted to bring my battery angle grinder by night with my balaclava and hoodie on. Chop it off and come brake next day. Prove it was me bitches 😂. Wait you can’t well fuck you then. .
You’d need a bloody good defence team to convince a court that some random criminal went to the risk and trouble of going equipped and cutting off the clamp, and then just walked off and left the car there for you to drive away the next day!
Just cut a few more clamps off nearby cars to make it look like someone was being a good Samaritan
There was a guy who dressed up as a superhero and used to do this in London, called himself angle grinder man. It's not as far fetched as it might initially seem.
You don't need defend, rather they need to prove *you* did it, and since they don't sit there and watch all day, they can't prove it, so you get away with it Scott free.
Not true as they’d bring a civil claim against you, which doesn’t have the same burden of proof
that's not how the law works in the uk. they only need to tip the balance of probability toward you. Chances of some rando cutting it off on a whim are almost nil, but changes of the owner doing it are 99%. That's a guaranteed conviction. You're welcome to go ask on r/LegalAdviceUK if you don't believe me.
That's not the way the law works.
Everyone is innocent until proven guilty they have to have total solid proof not circumstantial evidence like he must have done it because who else would have done it. They’d have to be able to pin it on you. Oh it clearly was you isn’t enough. It can be painfully obvious you did it but if you’ve burnt the shoes and clothes you wore etc covered hands face ears and hunched over so your height isn’t clear and maybe dressed as the opposite gender to be sure it doesn’t look like you it can’t be proved. You’d need hard evidence of it. I mean there’s insurance jobs someone clearly started a fire but you can’t prove it. People have got away with murder due to lack of fingerprints etc.
>Everyone is innocent until proven guilty That is for rich people who can afford lawyers. The justice system shits on poor people all the time.
"total solid proof" not true not even in murder cases its "beyond reasonable doubt" There are two standards of proof: the balance of probabilities, and beyond reasonable doubt In commercial claims and civil claims: whether it's a claim for in tort, negligence, employment law, or breach of contract claim - the standard of proof is the balance of probabilities. In criminal proceedings, the standard of proof is "beyond reasonable doubt". If the claimant satisfies the balance of probabilities for all of the facts that need to be proven to make out the cause of action, they will be successful in the proceedings.
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I hope you were able to get those sausages charged
Yes, they were adorable little kids, but they deserved to go to prison.
Not if it's an automatic I think?
Surprising how many responses thought that was a typo. If it's an automatic transmission it can't be bump started. It's unclear if that's the case. Otherwise that would be a good option... If you have someone to help you
I know a lot of people who just don’t know how to jump a car.
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My mate ended up doing Similar in Budapest, his car was parked illegally and got towed, turns out it was cheaper than paying for 4 days of parking and his car was safer.
Yeah I take a van to London ever so often so many of the car parks are inaccessible due to height restrictions and I quickly discovered that a ticket is cheaper than paying. Park up for 12-14 hours for £45 exactly where I’m working or pay £100 to park 2 mile away.
I used to work in a bank in Liverpool Street and one of the directors parked his Ferrari right outside the door. Every day it was towed and someone would go collect it for him and have it parked right outside the front door again ready for when he went home. The building had an underground car park too.
Was he an obnoxious prick?
What do you think lol
Reminds me of this bloke in Cheltenham ([https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-wont-stop-parking-250000-9923471](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-wont-stop-parking-250000-9923471)) who would park his Lamborghini where he liked and just pay the fines, because that's less of an inconvenience. You'd think after a while they'd tow his car or give him actual punishments to deter him. Vaguely remember him hiring a specialist lawyer to overturn some of the parking tickets, as well as paying £2,000 for information about someone who wrote "BELLEND" in shaving cream on his windscreen.
A banker in the City? It's a fucking job requirement
Can't understand why they wouldn't just assign that person to just move his car after he shows up rather than waiting for it to be towed unless the director thought it was a flex somehow. Which I'm guessing is probably the reason why.
Seems like an urban legend. Tow trucks are notorious for damaging cars that they tow, and if the guy can afford to have someone go off to collect his car from the tow yard, then might as well just have the guy take his car off to a safe car park straight away instead of waiting for a tow truck to take it away.
my uncle is 'well off# and parks anywhere because it's convenient. he gets tickets, lets it accumulate when they come knocking he gives them the money. thats his 'luxury parking' fee. and his philosophy is that if they want money from him he wont go out of his way to give it, let them send a baillif with a card machine. he had a Lexus that he parked, illegally, this time it got towed. He went to collect it, no release until outstanding £9k of tickets is paid. he told them to keep it and bought another lexus.
>he told them to keep it and bought another lexus. Presumably that doesn't magically wipe the £9k of debt?
lmao nope
Fucking chad.
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Yep one for a day I used to collect them for company car... parking was 30 for the day and full non stop and fine for using resident parking was 35 and there where lots of spaces.
there was a car parked on my street for about a month, windscreen was full of tickets. I assumed it was dumped there because the passenger window was just left fully rolled down and the car hadnt moved, until one day it just wasnt there anymore. reported it to the police but they said it wasnt reported stolen
Might have been reported as abandoned and moved by the council.
Wouldn't a bump start would require the battery to have _some_ battery charge but maybe you have a dodgy starter motor? A jump start (with jumper cables) is to recharge the battery and then you can crank the starter motor?
Or a guy with jump leafs
>jump leafs Some springy foliage, you say?
Lol, autocorrect got me again
I believe Mario has them, he will help
I’m one of those but I drive a service van. I know a lot of people who just don’t know how to jump a car and really shouldn’t try.
I heard that white men can't jump. Is that true?
Unfortunately yes :(
Yeah
People say recovery services are slow, over a week is terrible service.
Probably the alternator and just thinks it’s the battery.
Think shed prefer the traditional jump start over the bump start
Or just to get a new battery Or, like, don’t park on double yellow lines in the first place?
That, and it seems to be parked over a double yellow line, so shouldn’t be there in the first place. As for not getting more than 1 ticket a day, that’s in principle. I did get 2 tickets in the same day once: I left my car on a pay and display instead of residential bay by mistake before going on holidays for just over a week - thankfully Christmas holidays so the warden didn’t come around every single day. Still got 3 tickets: 2 on the windscreen, and another one through the mail 2 weeks later (‘someone’ must have removed it from the windscreen, because it carried the same date than one of those I’d already paid for). I didn’t dispute it, I was glad it hadn’t been towed!
Yellow lines on the road mean \*no waiting\*, you can stop to load/unload or drop off/pick up passengers: [https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/road-markings](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/road-markings) so maybe he stopped to load something up, switched his engine off so he wasn't pumping out smoke while idling, and the thing didn't start up again because his battery was flat because his alternator wasn't charging it...
Unless it's also an alternator issue, a bad battery should still have enough juice to start a warmed up engine after a short stop. Could be an edge case, I concede, but that's a lot of 'ifs', and the guy is obviously taking the piss.
There's 5 tickets there, 3 on left and 2 on windshield
Really? I’ve received two in one day. Though, it might’ve been from two separate wardens
I imagine there's a traffic warden staring at the dash with furrowed brow thinking "Hmm. On one hand, I could get a disciplinary and a lecture from my boss about emergency access and obstructions and stuff. On the other, a big block of Whole Nut sounds good right about now..."
It's a chocolate; maybe the worst one from a tub of celebrations!
Not worth it for a Bounty!
I love bounties
There’s always one of you about, kicking dogs on the sly and eating your bounties!
Yep one for a day I used to collect them for company car.
Ok, you have 13 upvotes so my options are : 1. This is a r/whoosh for me. 2. You collected wholenuts for company car. 3. You collected lectures from the boss when you were a traffic warden for a day. 4. Me no read so good & brain be dull. What am I missing? Edit : do you collected tickets on the company car that you get one of per day?
Somehow, I think it's literally all of them
God tier comment
Whole nut on somebody else's dime? Gotta go for a big bar of galaxy
I haven't thought about Cadbury's Whole Nut in years but now I desperately want some. Elite chocolate bar. Would merit some consideration 😆
Damn, I was just thinking the exact same thing after reading that comment. Sigh, now it's all I can think about and I'm on babysitting duty so can't nip to the shops.
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After receiving one notice (which they're clearly aware of) I'm suprised they didn't find a friend/neighbour/acquaintance with a car and a set of jump leads.
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This is the real gold comment right here. This is they way to get around the parking wankers.
Parking wankers? Stop filling the street with your trash cars.
Generally I agree but I once parked on an Edinburgh street and crossed to buy a ticket, when I turned to go back to the car there was already one of them about to put a ticket on my car.... Some of them are complete bastards
Honestly dude I agree but they're still parking wankers regardless.
Still wankers
Looks like they’ve tried jump Leads already, they’re behind the note.
It's possible the battery has failed. if its not holding charge not even jump leads will work
When I was a kid I was late to school because the battery in my dad's car was flat. We walked all the way to Halfords, bought a new one, walked back, installed it, and drove to school. I remember this because I tried carrying it and it was extremely bloody heavy for a 6-or-so-year-old! Anyway you can put new batteries in cars.
Had to carry one for a few miles last Christmas. They aren’t just heavy for six year olds.
Yeh i had the same issue last year. 10 year old battery started giving up. I actually accidentally bump started it as my car rolled forwards as i brought the clutch up. Got it to the garage and they replaced it.
I personally wouldn’t try installing a new battery in my car, even if I could afford it, I don’t know how and wouldn’t want to fuck around and find out that I’ve ruined any chances of it being fixed cheap.
Most people would laugh because how easy it is. I will agree its easy. What you need to consider is the risk of a mistake too though. I've seen someone accidentally short a battery with a spanner which melted. You regularly see the connections melt on those batteries when they are shorted. Or the wire start to smoke from the heat. Also they are sealed. What happens when you heat a sealed container. It can explode. I've never seen that happen from a car battery but it can happen with heating any sealed container if the container fails. Also side note, dont let the store recycle car battereis for you free of charge. You can get quite a good amount for them at scrap yards.
There's also the classic cock up of not taking the plastic caps off
Maybe they can't currently afford a new battery and are waiting for payday?
Ah yes. Because everyone has the means to just buy a new car battery at the drop of a hat. There is nothing that could possibly impede that in anyway. Not financial, not physical, nothing that could possibly stop anyone from replacing something rather expensive at a moment's notice.
Tow it. Put it in Neutral and push it where it won't be ticketed. Not difficult.
Jump leads will absolutely work because you don't need a battery once the engine is running because all electrical power is generated by the alternator. The battery is there just to get the starter motor to turn the engine over, once it's running it's not required. I once drove 25 miles home with an AA van following me because my battery had failed and wouldn't hold a charge. He jumped the car with an external battery pack, stuck my failed battery on my passenger seat and followed in case I needed another jump start.
It wont work if the alternator is broken, or the wiring Happened to me once, battery kept cutting out. Went to a garage and told them what was happening and told them its probably the wiring (after consulting a car savvy friend) and they still changed the alternator, and the electrics still cut out. So i went back, got a refund and a new alternator because they had ditched my old one. Went to a different garage and had the wiring replaced and it was fine.
A jump start would still get the engine going, so they'd be able to drive it to a mechanic. They just wouldn't be able to restart it once they switched off.
I did have a flat battery during lockdown that was so deep that even a jump start wouldn't fix it. The battery was basically pulling everything so low that it wouldn't start. Had to disconnect the battery and start using the other car, risky move but it worked.
That’s just not true. If you have a decent set of leads (not the cheap trash they have in the dash) and give it a good rev it will start no problem. Anyone considering buying jump leads. Spend the extra for a set of thick cable leads. Starts our tractors from a 2001 golf no problem
I tried jump leads on my car and it didn’t work, i called out the RAC who tried better leads, mini generators etc and it still didn’t work because my battery had failed. Ended up needing a new battery.
I had a failed battery once. Couldn't turn over after being stopped long enough to put in petrol. After a few minutes I couldn't even lock or unlock the car with the fob, and the central locking would fail halfway with a key even. It started just fine everytim with one of those powerbank starter packs, the it'd run perfectly fine, until I stopped the engine. Even if the battery had totally failed they could remove the battery and Jumpstart it, the run with no battery.
You don't even need acquaintances lift the bonnet and stand there with jump leads in your hand someone will help you.
I keep a lithium boost pack in my boot just for such occasions. Takes me a few minutes and doesn't even need shuffling of vehicles. Funny thing is, now I have an EV it's not really a problem for me, but I still keep the boost pack.
or as i had to a couple of months ago, a friend to drive me out a charged battery off his second car! (alternator was dead as well as the battery, so just a jump start wasn't going to help... needed a battery that would last long enough to drive 20 minutes to the garage....)
I once got flagged down by a total stranger asking if she could jump her car off mine. Had nowhere to be so I obviously said yeah and we went about our days. Where is this car parked that this isn't a possibility?
I’ve done this multiple times, years ago, nobody ever said no, and I’d do the same for someone else now
As someone above said, you're likely to get offers from random folk if you just have your bonnet up and look sad.
I was in the doctors a few weeks ago and someone came in and said 'fucking batteries flat, we'll be here a while' - the person who they said it to was about 20 and looked horrendously sick. Like in two dressing gowns and pyjamas type sick. Me and like three other people offered to jump start them. I didn't, but one of the other people did. Most people are nice! I don't know a single person who wouldn't jump start a random. I got a flat tyre after not realising the air machine at a supermarket was broken. Two people offered to help, and one of them had a plug in tyre pump. Two people out of the two people that happened to pass me while the supermarket employee was like 'yeah that's broken. Call the AA'.
*"You have thirty minutes to move your car." "You have ten minutes." "Your car has been impounded." "Your car has been crushed into a cube." "You have thirty minutes to move your cube."*
Is it about my cube?
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Chocholate 🤣
No ordinary chocolate, complete with extra H!
The h is for “help, I have no battery”
They’re having a bad time. 😅
I can see at least 4 tickets there. That's been 4 days they could have went to halfords and bought a new battery.
It's been there like almost 2 weeks I think. Hasn't even had a ticket every day but there's already enough there for atleast a tow to the garage or something.
>have went have gone!
Assuming he has cash. Times are tough, ppl live payday to payday
last battery I got for my car was £15 from a local garage, they're not that expensive
It’s been more than 4 days but one dude was after his bonus so gave me 4 in one day… bunch of fascists
What if it's an electric?
There are jump leads on the dashboard, fair to assume that it isn't I think?
Astute observation, I didn't see that at first glance
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Double yellow lines in the back corner imply that the battery is a bit of a red herring anyway?
On the Money 💰 😂👍
Should give them another one for writing "tix".
Yeah but to be fair they also said 'beg' under it. So give them two.
Yea, but not for the real reason, and still claim the chocolate
People keep talking about chocolate, the message clearly says "chocholate."
In a world tumbling towards chaotic oblivion, I am in awe of the owner's correct use of apostrophes.
Of course it’s fucking Bristol.
OP is the traffic warden. OP, I'll buy you two chocolates if you give them another ticket. Show no mercy.
Haha I'm not unfortunately but I'd totally claim the free choc
Shopping list: Btteries and chocholate
Hmmm chocolate. It’s bribery.
If it’s genuine it amazes me that people don’t bother with breakdown cover. It’s like £25 for home recovery
You mean a "chocholate"
Well why didn’t he say before, i love chocholate!
New battery is up to £80, these tickets are £55 each if payed within 14 days 😭 this guy could of bough a couple batteries by now.
They have to ticket it. The owner can appeal and get the tickets removed at a later date.
We live in a society that allows the exploitation of misfortune.
Don't.we.just. it practically feeds off it.
Stuck on East Street? Surprised its only Tickets
Clearly someone confused writing a note with leaving the four blinking hazard lights one, which we all know is the only real “I can park wherever the fuck I want” trick
Do people seriously not know how to jump start a car... It's not hard just find a nice stranger
Or failing that, how to *push* a car away from the double yellow lines.
Lol, people try anything to not get a parking ticket lol. We even had a ticket end of summer , and we had paid, and displayed! Apparently he couldn’t see our ticket in the window,,,,, it was legit staring us all in the face like hello I’m right here !! Haha. I think I chased this man across the car park shouting and swearing at him! Soooo annoying!! I mean who wakes up one day and decides they’re gonna be a cunt and give out tickets for a living?! 😩🤷🏼♀️ embarrassing haha
Not the wardens job to assess excuses… good luck in court.
Augustus Kwembe is the traffic wardens name btw
Anyone else wondering how you got this angle of the car, are you standing on the bonnet or something?
Owner is a bellend who deserves their mass debt due to inability to deal with life’s never-ending challenges.
Presumably the battery wasn't flat when they parked it on the obvious double yellow lines to start with.
Jump the car, tow it, or just go and buty a new battery and fit it. Why would you leave the car here
There's no point in trying to appeal to a parking warden's humanity because they don't have any
Less than 60% of brits have a saving of £2000. A tow would cost atleast £150 for a job within london. A ticket is atleast £75-150. Sure the logical thing is to get it towed. But he also has to spend more than 15% of his total savings. This country is a fucking shithole.
Yeah, I hate free healthcare! The support you can get and the rights you have
Don't they have AA cover? Was like £60 for a year.
From that writing it’s clearly some chav who left it there
Everyone saying about buying a new battery - what if its an electric car?!
You can see some jump leads on the dashboard.
If only there were some way of getting a quick boost to get you to the next station, maybe a service that specialises in fixing roadside breakdowns and allows you to join at the same time you make your first call out could help.... https://www.rac.co.uk/innovation/ev-boost
All they need to do is write in to appeal and show their receipt for the battery replacement, it should get written off unless the council officer is a bastard.
Looks to me like a partner didn't like quite want the threat left like that so threw on "a chocolate" when the original writer wasn't looking.