Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[Adam Ef]

Originally Posted by maviczap

Lazy **** parent who park out front of the school, despite the no parking restrictions at school times. Todays best was one parking on the zig zag line on the zebra crossing outside the school & he didn't even get out of the car to make sure his daughter was safe getting into the outside passenger side door of his car.

Sod speed camera's just a mobile number plate reader would generate £'s each day getting these Darwin award winners to walk to the school, whilst dragging their knuckles on the ground.

We have a mobile camera car in Bristol and surrounding areas that drives around random school roads at drop off and pick up times. All it has to do is drive past and the camera has an ANPR system linked with GPS that issues tickets to the registrations it scans. Doesn't seem to deter a lot of people though. And quite a few outside our kids school drive (mostly 4x4s) right the way up and on to pavements so they aren't officially on the double yellows or zig zags!!

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

Take pictures and pass them to the local cop shop, your MP, the school head and the local paper.

Would have, but left my phone in my car parked round the corner

local paper had started a campaign about it, but who reads the paper these days.

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by Adam Ef

We have a mobile camera car in Bristol and surrounding areas that drives around random school roads at drop off and pick up times. All it has to do is drive past and the camera has an ANPR system linked with GPS that issues tickets to the registrations it scans. Doesn't seem to deter a lot of people though. And quite a few outside our kids school drive (mostly 4x4s) right the way up and on to pavements so they aren't officially on the double yellows or zig zags!!

Wish we had something like that.

There was a 4x4 as well, the mum was on the phone waiting for her child to appear, when he did, she got out of the car, and waved him across the road once it was clear. How lazy can you get!

[ophic]

Originally Posted by maviczap

...its not going to be a priority until a kid gets hurt outside a school

Unlikely even then. We've had a child killed in a traffic accident outside our lad's school, but the police and teachers have done pretty much naff all about controlling the children on their way out.

When we were up north we had similar issues with parking. There was nowhere to park near the school, and there was nowhere to park further away either. Two way road with cars waiting either side just got completely clogged up. Simple solution would have been to make the road one-way as there was an exit further round the estate, but no I guess that was just too simple...

[maviczap]

Indeed

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by ophic

Unlikely even then. We've had a child killed in a traffic accident outside our lad's school, but the police and teachers have done pretty much naff all about controlling the children on their way out.

When we were up north we had similar issues with parking. There was nowhere to park near the school, and there was nowhere to park further away either. Two way road with cars waiting either side just got completely clogged up. Simple solution would have been to make the road one-way as there was an exit further round the estate, but no I guess that was just too simple...

I was driving passed a local school in the van with a trailer and the opposite lane was stuffed full of parked cars blocking it. As I had nearly passed the 200 yards or so. a car came at me on my side of the road. So I stopped and waited, and waited and waited for the car to reverse back. The driver then started to sound her horn at me and a pedestrian came over and told me quite bluntly that I had to reverse the couple of hundred yards. To which I refused, said that I only had my door mirrors and that view was somewhat restricted to what was actually behind the van by the trailer.

At that point the driver got out crying. Parents came over calling me a disgrace saying it was one way and I was going the wrong way. Err show me the sign?

No the school are telling parents, of which I am not. To treat it as one way so they can block a lane with cars. Poor little mummies, cannot be bothered to walk their fat offspring to/from school.

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by timwilky

Poor little mummies, cannot be bothered to walk their fat offspring to/from school.

Indeed

[Luckypants]

Bloody phising emails. One purporting to be from PayPal nearly caught me out today.

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by timwilky

No the school are telling parents, of which I am not. To treat it as one way so they can block a lane with cars. Poor little mummies, cannot be bothered to walk their fat offspring to/from school.

I do hope you called the plod and reported that.
The head deserves to be shot for that

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[ophic]

Originally Posted by timwilky

Poor little mummies, cannot be bothered to walk their fat offspring to/from school.

Might not be so bad if they just dropped the kids and moved on. But most of the mummies seem to have to get out of the car, help 3 kids to get out, give them all a kiss & cuddle in turn, pass them their lunchboxes, straighten their uniforms then tearfully wave at them as they walk through the gate.