Grumpy old buggers thread

[JDNSW]

Quick walk into a court with sufficient evidence that no surrounding parking was suitably provided would see it **** canned.

I very much doubt that! Councils are under no obligation to provide parking at all - witness the hundred if not thousands of kilometres of city streets that all provided kerbside parking in my youth and are now signposted "No parking any time" to allow another lane of traffic. Or a bicycle path etc.

[Tombie]

I very much doubt that! Councils are under no obligation to provide parking at all - witness the hundred if not thousands of kilometres of city streets that all provided kerbside parking in my youth and are now signposted "No parking any time" to allow another lane of traffic. Or a bicycle path etc.

Worked with “Lara” and the Adelaide City Council.
Fine immediately dropped when demonstrated the vehicle couldn’t fit in any of the supplied parking.

[JDNSW]

Probably because someone in the council offices decided to sidestep probable bad publicity, not for legal reasons. Although the legal situation will depend on state laws and local government regulations.

I think of some areas in Dubbo where the parking signs specify maximum length of vehicle to use the space, for example.

[DiscoMick]

I notice in NZ the standard bay length is usually 5400mm, which seems more realistic.
Maybe this is the reason most nose-in bays are just two parallel lines and open at the traffic end. If there is no line closing off the end of the bay then it can't be said your vehicle is longer than the bay.

[Tombie]

At one time in Adelaide, when I had Lara, there were no high rise parks I could enter.

At the time, fines for parking outside times/lines was less than the high rises would cost for the day anyway.

So I’d park, put in a $1.00 and take my chances.
Think I only paid a fine twice and it was less than a day in the park.

[spie]

When I first started working with the ppl i'm still with, the office had one of those come in from one direction and out the other driveways and the road parking between the entry/exit [about 25M] was 2hour unmetered. I just parked right in the middle every day M-F and got like three tickets a year. Cheaper than paying i think $10/day for the pay parking that was 5min walk away

[RANDLOVER]

At one time in Adelaide, when I had Lara, there were no high rise parks I could enter.

At the time, fines for parking outside times/lines was less than the high rises would cost for the day anyway.

So I’d park, put in a $1.00 and take my chances.
Think I only paid a fine twice and it was less than a day in the park.

When I first visited Sydney I made the mistake of hiring a car and paying for parking in a multi-storey garage, the day's parking cost more than the day's car hire, grrrr.

[Saitch]

I was on Mulgumpin (Moreton Is), extending the shower block roof for solar panels when, trimming some corro roofing with a nibbler last Thursday, managed to attract Murphy's attention, with the result being a small piece of metal in the left, seeing gear. Eye protection was being worn, however the offending dag hit the cheek/nose section and shot up, under the goggles.
I washed the eye out, on finishing the trim and carried on working.

On the Friday morn, the eye was somewhat uncomfortable but there wasn't much I could do about it, as I was on the 1100 return vehicle ferry.
On arriving home, I gave the eye a good eye wash and then ran a pretty powerful, ex-computer magnet over it and things seemed to improve a bit.
The good wife arrived home yesterday morning, from swanning around Brissy with her sisters, took one look at it and before I knew it, I was being examined by a medico at a nearby clinic.
He had a poke around, gave the eye a swab, gave me a script for some ABs and commented that using the magnet, early in the piece, was a wise move.

So: #1 Murphy is alive and well!

#2 It doesn't hurt to have a good magnet in your kit!

[JDNSW]

Yesterday morning, while walking briskly back to the verandah from checking the rain gauge, my right knee decided to play up. (Not a normal event at all!)

It got a lot better overnight, and was pretty much back to normal today - until I started for the village to get mail after lunch, and sprung into the driver's seat of the 110 in my normally spritely way. The pain was so bad that I could not focus on starting the engine for a few minutes. It was not too bad while driving, but when I had to get out at the first gate, I could barely walk. Putting the step down meant I could get back in, but I had to wait a couple of minutes before continuing; and repeat at each gate.

Not much else got done this afternoon, although I did manage to split enough wood for the night - already down to 9.3C.

[V8Ian]

You need to see the quack, John.