Talkback: Westminster replaces defaced parking bay signs

 If just one person who parks in each bay took a fat black marker pen with them and obliterated the bay location number on the lower sign - Westminster council would be f*cked. A team would have to be sent out to clean the sign or replace it. That costs them over £100. There are approximately 600 bays in Westminster = £60,000 A DAY to run the scheme; untenable.

The time for talking is over!

Get a pen , get some paint, wipe out these signs or it won't just be Westminter that will shaft you in the wallet every day!
(and don't think it will stay at £1 for long!)

Every council in the country is watching this.
They all need money and they will take it from you unless you stop this NOW!

Ogri wrote (see)

  

 If just one person who parks in each bay took a fat black marker pen with them and obliterated the bay location number on the lower sign - Westminster council would be f*cked. A team would have to be sent out to clean the sign or replace it. That costs them over £100. There are approximately 600 bays in Westminster = £60,000 A DAY to run the scheme; untenable.

 But, people don't want to get involved, they love it when someone else goes out at night and risks their neck but they haven't the cojones to do it themselves. Much easier to just pay the £1, keep your nose clean and take it up the arse from the man.

If one person gets caught doing this, then it may become untenable for them. Criminal record, lost job potentially,no money to pay the mortgage, or feed the wife & kids, repossesed house, lost cars, bikes etc.

Or £1 a day, seems like a simple equation to me when you look at it that way.

Did you ever hear anyone say “That picture had better be banned, because I might look at it and it might be very damaging to me”

Done my bit for today.

 Loon, are you telling us to try and not get caught..?  

Maverick Renegade wrote (see)

Done my bit for today.

 Loon, are you telling us to try and not get caught..?  

Did you ever hear anyone say “That picture had better be banned, because I might look at it and it might be very damaging to me”

R1 ... check out
the latest at   http://nutsville.com/

actions speak louder than words if you want to get shafted the rest of you life bend over!

When this scheme gets scrapped I'm sure you will enjoy the benefits of free parking along with the rest who stayed home.

Possibly, but guerilla warfare hasn't really succeeded that often in this country in the past.

Did you ever hear anyone say “That picture had better be banned, because I might look at it and it might be very damaging to me”

Who is talking about warfare!

This is an issue of petty councillors creating lazy legislation to cover up blatant extorsion of something that used to be free !

 And by the way...read some history.

The last time the Tories tried to charge citizens for something they 'perceived' to be free it resulted in the Poll tax Riots... Maggie Thatcher was kicked out and you are not paying Poll tax now are you!

thundergar wrote (see)

Who is talking about warfare!

This is an issue of petty councillors creating lazy legislation to cover up blatant extorsion of something that used to be free !

 And by the way...read some history.

The last time the Tories tried to charge citizens for something they 'perceived' to be free it resulted in the Poll tax Riots... Maggie Thatcher was kicked out and you are not paying Poll tax now are you!

The Poll Tax carried on for a good few years afterwards and instead of it, I now get a Council Tax bill instead of over £2000 a year, compard to the £200 Poll Tax bill. Hardly a victory was it?

Anyway, you carry on. I'm not objecting to what you're oing, just saying that the majority of people won't see £1 a day as a reason to go all anarchist.

Did you ever hear anyone say “That picture had better be banned, because I might look at it and it might be very damaging to me”

This would be the perfect job for a Biker with a burning "V" style grudge against the establishment, particularly Westminster Council.

Dream mode:

This person would have little or nothing to loose, would have the slight, yet definite insanity of "The Batman" as portrayed by Michael Keaton, a couple of unmarked and modified Yamaha R1s (with false plates that rotate) capable of outrunning the fuzz easily, lovely electronic "toys" capable of disabling pursuing cops (just in case), location maps of every CCTV camera capable of detecting him or HER (where are you Dark Angel, X5 452, as played by Jessica Alba, when we really need you!),  locations of all those pesky signs, high tech sprays that take seconds to permanently ruin those signs, and a comfy undetectable "Batcave" to scheme from.

This person probably would be stinking rich anyway, so doesn't really need to work everyday. They'll also have insider information about all the operations of the fuzz who might be planning to catch them.

Who ever you would be, you are already my hero!!