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Old Feb 4th, 2005, 09:17 PM
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DVLA and Traffic Wardens are not always the bad guys!

I got a letter from DVLA yesterday, heart sank, thinking it was a telling off of some sort, and was relieved to find that a kind traffic warden had reported to DVLA about me leaving things in view in my car while she was parked up in a residence bay nearby

They had included leaflets about how to avoid car crimes etc....

Nice of them to look after us, and thank you Mr. or Ms. Traffic Warden, you are doing a good job

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Old Feb 4th, 2005, 09:28 PM
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They were a bit more alert than the one I read about in the paper a few weeks ago. The story was something like this:

Someone who had had enough of life parked up for the final time by the river, leaving her car unlocked and handbag, etc. in full view.

Although finding the car sooner would not have changed the tragic outcome, the grieving family was a bit miffed that the same traffic warden had ticketed the car on successive days without spotting anything amiss. They felt that if it had been reported it might have saved some of the fruitless search and prolonged uncertainty before the body was fished out of the water.

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Old Feb 4th, 2005, 09:30 PM
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Oh dear, that is a sad tale

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Old Feb 4th, 2005, 09:33 PM
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The prize has to got a Council that send the family a bill for a lap post that he'd hit and died.

Unreal...
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Old Feb 4th, 2005, 09:34 PM
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Yes, from memory I think she had nursed her brother through terminal cancer, and just couldn't face life once he had gone. A very sad tale indeed.

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Old Feb 4th, 2005, 09:36 PM
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The prize has to got a Council that send the family a bill for a lap post that he'd hit and died.

Unreal...

Ah, that's the council, and not DVLA or Traffic Warden

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Ah, that's the council, and not DVLA or Traffic Warden

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Dora,

If I remember, your car is (being polite) a mobile trash can. No wonder Max refuses to clean the interior.

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Old Feb 4th, 2005, 10:57 PM
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Dora,

If I remember, your car is (being polite) a mobile trash can. No wonder Max refuses to clean the interior.

Ha ha

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