carty

Are you addressing anyone there chap, or just generally typing at the forum?

My point was that I have no sympathy with him being fined when he could have taken greater steps to avoid it all.

I hate it when people jump on band-wagons 'oh the injustice', 'oh how terrible this all is', 'oh soon nobody is going to be allowed to park directly outside their house on their own private, gated drive'.

I hate that the BBC has dressed this up as 'poor doctor just wants to be able to serve his patients quickly by parking really close to work and nasty Camden Council have outlawed it via a technicality'. There could be many other sides to this story. Maybe his scooter parked there actually does cause a hazard to pedestrians, maybe the good doctor is a nasty barsteward and he threatens to beat up the traffic warden each time he sees him. Maybe he slept with the Camden mayor's wife. Who knows.

I initially countered in this thread because of Billy's first post that said he was 'speechless' and 'physically sickened' by the article. I can't imagine how you feel when you read something really bad, like war, poverty, etcetera, etcetera...

And Stu, I know of London bike bays, as I said to Spidey earlier, we are talking about a doctor's runaround scooter, not a brand new Desmosedici. He could have bought ten new scooters for the value of his fines....

I think we're (me vs everyone else) going to have to agree to disagree here, I'll sit in this corner on my own