Thread: True story..honestly

Originally Posted by 3toes

Does this come under diversifying farm incomes ?

Probably would have been frowned upon pre-Brexit.

Originally Posted by spudfan

As you can imagine tempers were high but they had no option but to pay what the farmer wanted before he had the ditch filled in and they could get their cars out.

My dad had prime park under his office building years ago (80's). Had the sign up on the bay "Reserved bay, offenders will be fined". People used to park in it frequently, so he'd come back from a meeting and park them in. Lots of agro and frustration, but he used to respond with "That'll be a $500 donation to the red cross. Bring me the receipt and I'll move my car". The red cross office was only just down the road. They made a few bucks from that over the years.

Around 30 years ago I worked for a well know Liquor outlet. The first Xmas I was there was insanely busy and someone parked in front of our loading bay. My manager went out and told him to move as a beer truck was about to arrive shortly, but was told in no uncertain terms what he could do with himself, and then walked off. My manager Bert got onto the forklift, picked up the offending car and placed it on the median strip across from us. Beer duly arrived, got unloaded and then angry customer arrived and unloaded on Bert. Bert got onto his toes (all 5'4" of him) into the customers face and told him if he left his car there again, he wouldn't just charge him for a missed beer delivery, but move his car again, this time with the forks straight through the side of his car. Was a funny bugger old Bert, especially with his hackles up. It would be interesting to see someone do that in this day and age!

Currently dealing with council, without much success, regarding illegal parking, partially and on one occassion completely blocking access to my driveway and three other neighbours - we're all on battle axe blocks. Very annoying and inconvenient especially when the street is narrow and I'm oftem towing a 4 wheel trailer behind the 110.

So I really appreciate the suggestions offered in the foregoing posts involving successful examples of dealing with similar problems.

PS - I might add that there's a bit of Irish in my 'Riley' surname.

Back when I was a little younger used to carry a tyre valve release tool in the car ash tray

Was used for those people who were deliberately causing me parking problems. Requires only seconds to release the tyre valve after which the tyres loses its round shape and becomes straight edged on the lower side. Repeat process for tyre on diagonal opposite side of vehicle

Hope was they would change one before realising the other was also flat. Designed so I could share with them my inconvenience and time wasted as most cars do not carry a second spare. Some people are slow learners as had to administer repeat lessons to some cars

Originally Posted by 3toes

Back when I was a little younger used to carry a tyre valve release tool in the car ash tray

I used to do that too, whereas an older mate of mine just used to plunge a knife into the sidewall. I made sure never to upset him.

Take valve cap off,put piece of twig under cap and screw on until hissing is heard.
Easy as.