| Serves them right on 15:44 - Jul 25 with 3353 views | DanTheMan |
I'd really love to be inside the mind of the person when they thought that giving a ticket to an ambulance was a good idea.
Just their thought process from start to ticket. |  |
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| Serves them right on 15:45 - Jul 25 with 3336 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Serves them right on 15:44 - Jul 25 by DanTheMan |
I'd really love to be inside the mind of the person when they thought that giving a ticket to an ambulance was a good idea.
Just their thought process from start to ticket. |
You might have trouble finding a thought process! |  |
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| Serves them right on 15:49 - Jul 25 with 3304 views | Sarge |
| Serves them right on 15:44 - Jul 25 by DanTheMan |
I'd really love to be inside the mind of the person when they thought that giving a ticket to an ambulance was a good idea.
Just their thought process from start to ticket. |
It was a parking warden, a job invented to give employment to nobody’s. This is what you’d see.
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| Serves them right on 15:52 - Jul 25 with 3287 views | Illinoisblue |
| Serves them right on 15:44 - Jul 25 by DanTheMan |
I'd really love to be inside the mind of the person when they thought that giving a ticket to an ambulance was a good idea.
Just their thought process from start to ticket. |
agreed. But, that said, the bloke giving the ticket wasn't as annoying as I thought he was going to be. |  |
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| Serves them right on 15:54 - Jul 25 with 3275 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Serves them right on 15:44 - Jul 25 by DanTheMan |
I'd really love to be inside the mind of the person when they thought that giving a ticket to an ambulance was a good idea.
Just their thought process from start to ticket. |
Playing Devil's advocate; The ambulance is clearly blocking the vision of pedestrians and drivers in the car park. If somebody tried to cross the road an oncoming vehicle wouldn't see them.
She wasn't attending an emergency and wanted to buy some water. If the ambulance doesn't fit in a normal space then why not stop at a petrol station to buy the water?
If this was a banker or an Estate Agent would people be defending this? |  |
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| Serves them right on 16:01 - Jul 25 with 3220 views | Binner |
| Serves them right on 15:54 - Jul 25 by GlasgowBlue |
Playing Devil's advocate; The ambulance is clearly blocking the vision of pedestrians and drivers in the car park. If somebody tried to cross the road an oncoming vehicle wouldn't see them.
She wasn't attending an emergency and wanted to buy some water. If the ambulance doesn't fit in a normal space then why not stop at a petrol station to buy the water?
If this was a banker or an Estate Agent would people be defending this? |
And if it were a police car parking on double yellow lines to pop into the shop for drink wouldn't people think it wrong? |  |
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| Serves them right on 16:04 - Jul 25 with 3201 views | agentp |
| Serves them right on 15:54 - Jul 25 by GlasgowBlue |
Playing Devil's advocate; The ambulance is clearly blocking the vision of pedestrians and drivers in the car park. If somebody tried to cross the road an oncoming vehicle wouldn't see them.
She wasn't attending an emergency and wanted to buy some water. If the ambulance doesn't fit in a normal space then why not stop at a petrol station to buy the water?
If this was a banker or an Estate Agent would people be defending this? |
Thing is in this hot weather they are rushed off their feet. Yeah they could drive around and find somewhere suitable which will probably mean being pulled away on another shout. With those guys it's get it when you can. I find it hard to believe anyone would begrudge them the chance to rehydrate when they can. | |
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| Serves them right on 16:17 - Jul 25 with 3153 views | Garv |
| Serves them right on 15:44 - Jul 25 by DanTheMan |
I'd really love to be inside the mind of the person when they thought that giving a ticket to an ambulance was a good idea.
Just their thought process from start to ticket. |
The only argument I would give to this is if the warden is under strict instructions and pressure to issue tickets where applicable and this meets the criteria (surely he would be told if Ambulances were off limits) then he's done his job. If the individual has just got it wrong then its a different matter. |  |
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| Serves them right on 16:22 - Jul 25 with 3135 views | Deano69 |
Seems odd to me that an ambulance doesn't carry drinking water, especially at the moment, crew and patients.
Either way, crazy jobsworth. |  |
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| Serves them right on 16:22 - Jul 25 with 3133 views | Keno |
| Serves them right on 15:54 - Jul 25 by GlasgowBlue |
Playing Devil's advocate; The ambulance is clearly blocking the vision of pedestrians and drivers in the car park. If somebody tried to cross the road an oncoming vehicle wouldn't see them.
She wasn't attending an emergency and wanted to buy some water. If the ambulance doesn't fit in a normal space then why not stop at a petrol station to buy the water?
If this was a banker or an Estate Agent would people be defending this? |
I dont know many bankers or an Estate Agents who would would pop into a supermarket to buy bottle of water after saving the life of child having a reaction to a bee sting and 15 seconds before a call asking them to attend a serious RTA where they might have to give palliative care to crash victim and triage the other 6 people affected |  |
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| Serves them right on 16:25 - Jul 25 with 3121 views | Deano69 |
| Serves them right on 16:22 - Jul 25 by Keno |
I dont know many bankers or an Estate Agents who would would pop into a supermarket to buy bottle of water after saving the life of child having a reaction to a bee sting and 15 seconds before a call asking them to attend a serious RTA where they might have to give palliative care to crash victim and triage the other 6 people affected |
Sometimes they have to change the board outside a house from 'For Sale' to 'Sold', I mean, what could be more important than that. | |
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| Serves them right on 16:26 - Jul 25 with 3113 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Serves them right on 16:22 - Jul 25 by Keno |
I dont know many bankers or an Estate Agents who would would pop into a supermarket to buy bottle of water after saving the life of child having a reaction to a bee sting and 15 seconds before a call asking them to attend a serious RTA where they might have to give palliative care to crash victim and triage the other 6 people affected |
Or attend an accident where a young child walks in front of a car because they couldn't see the oncoming vehicle due to an ambulance blocking their vision.
A ticket shouldn't be issued but that is irresponsible parking whatever way you may look at it. | |
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| Serves them right on 16:26 - Jul 25 with 3104 views | Keno |
| Serves them right on 16:25 - Jul 25 by Deano69 |
Sometimes they have to change the board outside a house from 'For Sale' to 'Sold', I mean, what could be more important than that. |
true, how do they cope!!! | |
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| Serves them right on 16:28 - Jul 25 with 3090 views | Keno |
| Serves them right on 16:26 - Jul 25 by GlasgowBlue |
Or attend an accident where a young child walks in front of a car because they couldn't see the oncoming vehicle due to an ambulance blocking their vision.
A ticket shouldn't be issued but that is irresponsible parking whatever way you may look at it. |
well at least they would be there to deal it with child
and hopefully hopefully explain to the Childs parent or guardian the need to keep the child under proper supervision | |
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| Serves them right on 16:31 - Jul 25 with 3077 views | GeoffSentence |
| Serves them right on 15:54 - Jul 25 by GlasgowBlue |
Playing Devil's advocate; The ambulance is clearly blocking the vision of pedestrians and drivers in the car park. If somebody tried to cross the road an oncoming vehicle wouldn't see them.
She wasn't attending an emergency and wanted to buy some water. If the ambulance doesn't fit in a normal space then why not stop at a petrol station to buy the water?
If this was a banker or an Estate Agent would people be defending this? |
And they weren't on a call, just popped in to get some water. They've been caught bang to rights. Why don't these entitled idiots just pay the fine? |  |
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| Serves them right on 17:09 - Jul 25 with 2976 views | Pinewoodblue |
| Serves them right on 16:31 - Jul 25 by GeoffSentence |
And they weren't on a call, just popped in to get some water. They've been caught bang to rights. Why don't these entitled idiots just pay the fine? |
They both popped in neither stayed with the vehicle. If I did it would be annoyed with myself for being lazy and taking a chance. |  |
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| Serves them right on 17:40 - Jul 25 with 2904 views | itfcjoe |
I don't think warden has done much wrong, one of them should have sat in the ambulance whilst the other ran in to grab the water.
Ambulances are often parked terribly, but you just let them get on with it - one was blocking my road for an hour on Saturday night - my neighbour at number 3 had had a fall. But the road goes down to number 71 so a lot of cars weren't able to get home on a Saturday night.
The driver came out and moved it 2 or 3 times rather than just park properly. And then when they had finished they sat outside my house with the engine running for 45 minutes! |  |
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| Serves them right on 17:42 - Jul 25 with 2891 views | SpruceMoose |
| Serves them right on 16:26 - Jul 25 by GlasgowBlue |
Or attend an accident where a young child walks in front of a car because they couldn't see the oncoming vehicle due to an ambulance blocking their vision.
A ticket shouldn't be issued but that is irresponsible parking whatever way you may look at it. |
I mean, at least they'd get a pretty quick response time! |  |
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| Serves them right on 20:55 - Jul 25 with 2713 views | m14_blue |
For me, the guy should have used a bit of common sense and waited a few minutes for them to get their water, maybe had a word to say be more careful next time.
However, he's also becoming the subject of a social media witch hunt up here which is completely moronic. | | | |
| Serves them right on 21:07 - Jul 25 with 2681 views | HennikerBlu |
I always understood that they could pretty much part where they like when dealing with an emergency or dealing with a patient, as long as it was safe to do so, but had to obey the rules when not.
This seems to suggest the Ambulance was illegally parked:
https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/25/can-ambulances-park-double-yellow-lines-traffic-w
" 'Ambulances are allowed to park on white or yellow lines providing they are engaged on official duties, e.g. it was necessary to park at that point to carry out essential duties or to be as close as possible to the patient they are treating. ‘Our ambulance crews are trained to ensure that they park vehicles in such a way that will not cause a nuisance to other road users but also ensure that there is no delay in attending the patient.’ "
"The question is, was the paramedic ‘engaged on official duties’ whilst she was on duty but not attending to an emergency? It certainly seems that it wasn’t ‘necessary to park at that point to carry out essential duties’. West Midlands Police, whilst clearly referring to police cars, may have cleared this up on their website. ‘The Highway Code states that traffic laws apply to everyone, even police cars. ‘The police are only allowed to stop on double yellows if they are dealing with a motorist or attending an emergency. ‘ "
Probably the Metro has looked into it more deeply because of the traffic issues in London. I am of the view that discretion could easily have been used, equally, I don't like the way everyone 'seems' to want to make a fool out of the Parking Attendant (in the press), including his own HR function, when clearly a quiet word would have sufficed especially as the ticket was promptly withdrawn/cancelled.
The ambulance and paramedic crews of course do a fantastic job! | | | |
| Serves them right on 21:21 - Jul 25 with 2642 views | RoyKeanesDog |
Whilst commonsense probably dictates a ticket shouldn't have been issued, you can make a case for the traffic warden.
I agree with the points GB and Joe have made in this thread. Certainly don't think the warden is a villain and he handled the situation quite well. |  |
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| Serves them right on 21:22 - Jul 25 with 2636 views | BrixtonBlue |
| Serves them right on 15:54 - Jul 25 by GlasgowBlue |
Playing Devil's advocate; The ambulance is clearly blocking the vision of pedestrians and drivers in the car park. If somebody tried to cross the road an oncoming vehicle wouldn't see them.
She wasn't attending an emergency and wanted to buy some water. If the ambulance doesn't fit in a normal space then why not stop at a petrol station to buy the water?
If this was a banker or an Estate Agent would people be defending this? |
Vehicles parked on roads where there AREN'T parking restrictions also obscure views. The trick is to look properly when you cross, wherever you are.
Common sense. Which is what the parking attendant should've applied. |  |
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