Flood-hit cars in Queen’s Staith are given parking tickets (From York Press)
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Flood-hit cars in Queen’s Staith are given parking tickets
9:12am Tuesday 2nd March 2010 in
THEY say bad luck comes in threes and for the owners of these flooded cars the old adage seems to have come true.
The cars, which were parked up on the riverbank at Queen’s Staith, in York, fell victim not only to the rapidly rising river water over the weekend, but also a zealous parking inspector.
A taxi driver called The Press to say he had seen the cars being ticketed at about 9.15am yesterday morning after the floodwater from the Ouse had subsided.
Shaun Binns, landlord of The Lowther pub which is on the opposite bank of the river on Cumberland Street, said his staff had a good view of the incident.
Mr Binns said: “Normally you get people parking on there, but they move them in time to avoid flooding, but in this case I think the river’s come up quickly and they must have got caught out. There are double yellow lines down there and I suppose you could say that if you are not allowed to park there you shouldn’t, but the inspector must have seen the cars had been flooded and to be truthful, you’d think they’d have had a bit of compassion.”
A council spokeswoman said parking attendants had been unaware that some cars had been flooded when issuing the tickets. She said that if people provided evidence that their vehicle had been submerged, they would succeed in an appeal against their ticket.
Comments(41)
Splat
says...
9:55am Tue 2 Mar 10
if you want free parking just park in a bus stop or any where in coppergate,
as nothing happens to people who parking in bus stops or drive thru coppergate.
yorknights
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10:24am Tue 2 Mar 10
Garrowby Turnoff
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10:29am Tue 2 Mar 10
rogue84
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10:59am Tue 2 Mar 10
photo's of their submerged vehicles? another classic waste of time...
King Edward
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11:36am Tue 2 Mar 10
anti-rant
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11:37am Tue 2 Mar 10
Guy Fawkes
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11:56am Tue 2 Mar 10
But why were they parked there in the first place?
There is what looks like a single yellow line in the background of the picture: if so, they were probably legally entitled to park there at the time they did so, but not by the time the water had risen.
agabbiecabby
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12:24pm Tue 2 Mar 10
and their evidence of being flooded out are on the pages of the press.
tomlinsj
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1:36pm Tue 2 Mar 10
Carlton Palmer
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3:49pm Tue 2 Mar 10
tomlinsj wrote:Not visiting York again because your car got flooded is a bit like never eating chicken because a bird pood on your new coat.
I own one of these cars - I visited the City of York to see the fantatsic sights that are advertised by your council and the tourist office - I was advised by the hotel reception that you can park there between 6pm - 8am - I got up in the morning to see my car under 5 ft of water - Safe to say i wont be visiting York again. Thanks for your un-sympathetic comments. My ticket is currently with the appeals department.
Littlepoo
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4:19pm Tue 2 Mar 10
tomlinsj wrote:I'm sorry but this whole story is just funny!!!!
I own one of these cars - I visited the City of York to see the fantatsic sights that are advertised by your council and the tourist office - I was advised by the hotel reception that you can park there between 6pm - 8am - I got up in the morning to see my car under 5 ft of water - Safe to say i wont be visiting York again. Thanks for your un-sympathetic comments. My ticket is currently with the appeals department.
AdmiralNN
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4:41pm Tue 2 Mar 10
tomlinsj wrote:Bless ya, but seriously you park your car at a spot a metre for the edge of a very fast flowing river which was less than a foot from the top of its banks after a day of torrential rain.
I own one of these cars - I visited the City of York to see the fantatsic sights that are advertised by your council and the tourist office - I was advised by the hotel reception that you can park there between 6pm - 8am - I got up in the morning to see my car under 5 ft of water - Safe to say i wont be visiting York again. Thanks for your un-sympathetic comments. My ticket is currently with the appeals department.
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Its not that i dont have any sympathy its just that you are lacking some common sense.
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Though i cant really comment as i left my green bin at the bottom of the garden friday night and had to wade out saturday morning to retrieve it... gave the neighbours a chuckle!
Frodo Baggins
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5:03pm Tue 2 Mar 10
tomlinsj wrote:Coming from Nottingham, you have my deepest sympathy. Hope your car dries out.
I own one of these cars - I visited the City of York to see the fantatsic sights that are advertised by your council and the tourist office - I was advised by the hotel reception that you can park there between 6pm - 8am - I got up in the morning to see my car under 5 ft of water - Safe to say i wont be visiting York again. Thanks for your un-sympathetic comments. My ticket is currently with the appeals department.
Garrowby Turnoff
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5:15pm Tue 2 Mar 10
tomlinsj wrote:But all of the comments but one are sympathetic! What do expect us to say?
I own one of these cars - I visited the City of York to see the fantatsic sights that are advertised by your council and the tourist office - I was advised by the hotel reception that you can park there between 6pm - 8am - I got up in the morning to see my car under 5 ft of water - Safe to say i wont be visiting York again. Thanks for your un-sympathetic comments. My ticket is currently with the appeals department.
Caecilius
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5:16pm Tue 2 Mar 10
Garrowby Turnoff
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5:27pm Tue 2 Mar 10
Caecilius wrote:Spragging by 'eck..!
If York traffic wardens are genuinely keen to hand out tickets to people who park on double yellow lines, I suggest an early morning stake-out of the Londis shop on Bootham would be well worth their while.
the butler
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5:32pm Tue 2 Mar 10
Garrowby Turnoff
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5:39pm Tue 2 Mar 10
the butler wrote:Or:-
For strangers to the city,A permanent sign on the Staith ahead of the entrance, stating "WARNING, Be aware, Flooding at times up to three metres"; may help prevent future submersions..
"WARNING:
PARKING ONLY FOR GUESTS AT WEDDING CEREMONY OF TRAFFIC WARDEN'S PARENTS."
Guy Fawkes
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5:42pm Tue 2 Mar 10
Coming from Nottingham, you have my deepest sympathy.
Seconded. I'm sure the comments on his local rag's blog would make similar jokes if one of us forgot our AK-47 and flak jacket when visiting Nottingham and ended up regretting it...
Silver
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6:32pm Tue 2 Mar 10
MattRSJ
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7:12pm Tue 2 Mar 10
What a poor way to treat our "beloved" tourists, though hardly surprising...
What a shame it is that the traffic warden didn't drown while issuing these tickets.
King Edward
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7:30pm Tue 2 Mar 10
Jam tomorrow
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8:33pm Tue 2 Mar 10
old_geezer
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9:15pm Tue 2 Mar 10
"Unaware" - oh come off it, pull the other one! Apart from anything else, slimy mud and debris everywhere is a bit of a clue. CYC sends out crews to hose it all clean again, so part of CYC is "officially" aware.
tomlinsj: I don't know which hotel you mean, but their staff are woefully ill-informed about the risk of river flooding - scorch the manager's ears a bit, this is no good for tourism.
Guy Fawkes
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9:16pm Tue 2 Mar 10
A tourist from Nottingham - surely that's just a posh name for a shop lifter?
You're getting confused with Middlesbrough.
Splat
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9:36pm Tue 2 Mar 10
Caecilius wrote:Traffic Wardens in York, No such thing,
If York traffic wardens are genuinely keen to hand out tickets to people who park on double yellow lines, I suggest an early morning stake-out of the Londis shop on Bootham would be well worth their while.
parking attendents / civil enforcement officers, Traffic Wardens have power to stop / move & Direct traffic and issue FPN and NIP's our lazy Parking Atendents can only give PCN
they spend more time in car parks and Res-Park than enforcing city centre parking,
needless to say you never see on in the city centre during the loading ban, !!!!
as for the car drivers that parked cars next to a river in winter that was all ready in flood !!!!
also the hotel should have told them the river could flood. or at least keep a watch on the river and warn guests,
humpty numpty
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9:54pm Tue 2 Mar 10
tomlinsj wrote:at least it didnt get stolen, cars under 5ft of water rarely do though. i do sympathise with you as i parked my camper van there one evening and woke up in hull. mr tomlins, come back in the summer (monsoon season) but use a hotel well away from the river - but not tang hall or clifton as it will be stolen!!!!
I own one of these cars - I visited the City of York to see the fantatsic sights that are advertised by your council and the tourist office - I was advised by the hotel reception that you can park there between 6pm - 8am - I got up in the morning to see my car under 5 ft of water - Safe to say i wont be visiting York again. Thanks for your un-sympathetic comments. My ticket is currently with the appeals department.
Jimbo of York
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9:55pm Tue 2 Mar 10
humpty numpty
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9:59pm Tue 2 Mar 10
Jimbo of York wrote:old shuffler peddlin puddlebrain paul is away on "tour de holgate" practice at the moment, but rest assured he will return shortly to castigate all you evil car users.
Twenty-seven comments in and I can't believe there hasn't been something from 'puddlebrain paul' extolling the value of the CYC's Parking Attendants and the wonderful job they do in ridding the streets of those nasty cars.
Splat
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10:08pm Tue 2 Mar 10
bring back REAL Traffic Wardens
or York POLICE just do what your Paid to do !!!! enforce the LAW !!
why are private vehicles always permitted to drive through coppergate, pavement stonebow & piccadilly with out punishment, 1000s of vehicles a day do this, and get away with it, and AND WHY CyC is the stonebow bollard dropping for any vehicle that drives up to it, !!!!!!!
it only supposed to drop for Buses taxis yet again CyC your doing a great job of been incompetent !!!!!
agabbiecabby
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12:40am Wed 3 Mar 10
oh and stop parking your vans on double yellow lines when you go giving tickets out.
Pedro
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12:12pm Wed 3 Mar 10
Kiff
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5:00pm Wed 3 Mar 10
.
Also The story says that "bad luck comes in threes ... seems to have come true.". So we have
1) A flooded Car
2) A parking picket
What's the third? Living in Nottingham maybe?
deathwatch
says...
7:26pm Wed 3 Mar 10
Littlepoo wrote:Yeah, Littlepoo,
tomlinsj wrote:I'm sorry but this whole story is just funny!!!!
I own one of these cars - I visited the City of York to see the fantatsic sights that are advertised by your council and the tourist office - I was advised by the hotel reception that you can park there between 6pm - 8am - I got up in the morning to see my car under 5 ft of water - Safe to say i wont be visiting York again. Thanks for your un-sympathetic comments. My ticket is currently with the appeals department.
As funny as watching two planes fly into two tall skyscrapers...
deathwatch
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7:34pm Wed 3 Mar 10
Pedro wrote:He came to York, his car was flooded (presumably he wasn't warned about flood risk), then some d**khead traffic warden tickets his flooded car. Now he gets 'anti-Nottingham' comments from a load of anal yorkshire puddings. And you wonder why he doesn't want to return? I wouldn't either...
Right mate - two can play at that game - I am not going to Nottingham for a short leisure break...
MarkW
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8:38am Thu 4 Mar 10
tomlinsj wrote:Goodness - what a bitter man! Is he seriously saying this wouldn't raise the odd humorous comment in Nottingham? And is our city no longer full of splendid sights because he got a parking ticket?
I own one of these cars - I visited the City of York to see the fantatsic sights that are advertised by your council and the tourist office - I was advised by the hotel reception that you can park there between 6pm - 8am - I got up in the morning to see my car under 5 ft of water - Safe to say i wont be visiting York again. Thanks for your un-sympathetic comments. My ticket is currently with the appeals department.
You would have thought a break from all that gun crime would be welcome!
MarkW
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8:43am Thu 4 Mar 10
deathwatch wrote:What!!!!?
Littlepoo wrote:Yeah, Littlepoo,
tomlinsj wrote:I'm sorry but this whole story is just funny!!!!
I own one of these cars - I visited the City of York to see the fantatsic sights that are advertised by your council and the tourist office - I was advised by the hotel reception that you can park there between 6pm - 8am - I got up in the morning to see my car under 5 ft of water - Safe to say i wont be visiting York again. Thanks for your un-sympathetic comments. My ticket is currently with the appeals department.
As funny as watching two planes fly into two tall skyscrapers...
You equate the largest terrorist act of all time with some idiot parking his car too close to the river?
Find dictionary - look up "proportion" - and grow up. Idiot.
yorkiegal
says...
6:41pm Thu 4 Mar 10
in regards to this story, i think that its a shame a flooded car would put you off york forever. the hotel should be to blame more than anything for not mentioning it, anyone of us may have parked there not knowing what the ouse gets up to at that area when its being raining. i feel sorry for him but i think its a tad extreme to write off york. as for finding it funny, well, sometimes you have to laugh at misfortune or you'll go mad! and theres no reason comments shoiuldnt be made about nottingham and gun crime because every city has a reputation for something! yorks is a good reputation, bradfords bad etc. theres more to life than taking comments to heart its called banter!
deathwatch
says...
11:34pm Sat 6 Mar 10
MarkW wrote:Electing Bush as President of Dumbf**ckistan (USA) was the worst terrorist outrage ever...
deathwatch wrote:What!!!!?
Littlepoo wrote:Yeah, Littlepoo,
tomlinsj wrote:I'm sorry but this whole story is just funny!!!!
I own one of these cars - I visited the City of York to see the fantatsic sights that are advertised by your council and the tourist office - I was advised by the hotel reception that you can park there between 6pm - 8am - I got up in the morning to see my car under 5 ft of water - Safe to say i wont be visiting York again. Thanks for your un-sympathetic comments. My ticket is currently with the appeals department.
As funny as watching two planes fly into two tall skyscrapers...
You equate the largest terrorist act of all time with some idiot parking his car too close to the river?
Find dictionary - look up "proportion" - and grow up. Idiot.
stupid Yorkshire puddings...
MarkW
says...
7:47pm Sun 7 Mar 10
deathwatch wrote:Two gross generalisations in one short sentence - you are to be congratulated on your narrow mindedness. Well done! ;-)
MarkW wrote:Electing Bush as President of Dumbf**ckistan (USA) was the worst terrorist outrage ever...
deathwatch wrote:What!!!!?
Littlepoo wrote:Yeah, Littlepoo,
tomlinsj wrote:I'm sorry but this whole story is just funny!!!!
I own one of these cars - I visited the City of York to see the fantatsic sights that are advertised by your council and the tourist office - I was advised by the hotel reception that you can park there between 6pm - 8am - I got up in the morning to see my car under 5 ft of water - Safe to say i wont be visiting York again. Thanks for your un-sympathetic comments. My ticket is currently with the appeals department.
As funny as watching two planes fly into two tall skyscrapers...
You equate the largest terrorist act of all time with some idiot parking his car too close to the river?
Find dictionary - look up "proportion" - and grow up. Idiot.
stupid Yorkshire puddings...
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