Cautioned by the Council Rangers - Page 2

290v · 18-11-2007, 08:07 PM

you are lucky to get a warning in Adelaide my daughter parked her Festiva two wheels ontop of the gutter concrete but din't touch the grass coped a $43.00 fine first off no warning

Van D · 18-11-2007, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by T-BOOST

Hey not all of frankston is scumy thank you very much!
It's only a very small part, 'the north'.

I hate hearing this. Not half a km away from the CBD of Frankston there are multi million doller houses and lots of them. You'll have trouble finding a house in the south for under half a million.
When Tom Cruise and Nicole were together they were looking for a house to buy on olivers hill (1km from the centre of Frankston)

We were voted the best town in the world 4 years ago (i think it was the same year melbourne was voted the best city in the world)
Has your area had this type of recognition??

It's a joke mate :P

But hey, the yarra valley does have a lot of class, apparently.. And i've got million dollar houses just down the road!

Sourbastard · 18-11-2007, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Van D

It's a joke mate :P

But hey, the yarra valley does have a lot of class, apparently.. And i've got million dollar houses just down the road!

$700,000 worth of cocaine inside a $300,000 house does not equal a million dollar house.

Van D · 18-11-2007, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by sourbastard

$700,000 worth of cocaine inside a $300,000 house does not equal a million dollar house.

Oh?

*takes house off market*

blk_frmnt · 18-11-2007, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by T-BOOST

Hey not all of frankston is scumy thank you very much!
It's only a very small part, 'the north'.

I hate hearing this. Not half a km away from the CBD of Frankston there are multi million doller houses and lots of them. You'll have trouble finding a house in the south for under half a million.
When Tom Cruise and Nicole were together they were looking for a house to buy on olivers hill (1km from the centre of Frankston)

We were voted the best town in the world 4 years ago (i think it was the same year melbourne was voted the best city in the world)
Has your area had this type of recognition??

It's okay in Frankston, don't be insecure. j/k.

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Originally Posted by sourbastard

$700,000 worth of cocaine inside a $300,000 house does not equal a million dollar house.

and LOL.

alstar5 · 18-11-2007, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Laminge

I would have warned the bastards they are trespassing on private property and ask them to leave oh so politely!

And I would have booked you on the spot then and there. The warning was a courtesy. Have a thought for the child, elderly person or even the jogger wearing an ipod who dashes out onto the road because the nature strip is blocked and gets run over by a car.

I'm not having a go at you, I'm just reminding everyone that most laws are put in place for a reason.

blk_frmnt · 18-11-2007, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by alstar5

And I would have booked you on the spot then and there. The warning was a courtesy. Have a thought for the child, elderly person or even the jogger wearing an ipod who dashes out onto the road because the nature strip is blocked and gets run over by a car.

I'm not having a go at you, I'm just reminding everyone that most laws are put in place for a reason.

Oh gimme a break... The guy who parked the car is responsible for the jogger getting run over? If the jogger can't see the road, he should slow down and look before he crosses, the guy who parked the car shouldn't have to anticipate every conceivable circumstance that might arrise from his parking on the nature strip!

From reading this thread, if I had a nature strip at my place, I'd be parking on it 24/7 just out of spite. What a load of rubbish. I think we should also ban all fires in fireplaces. Think of the birds that could become disoriented in the smoke and crash into telephone poles...

alstar5 · 18-11-2007, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by blk_frmnt

Oh gimme a break... The guy who parked the car is responsible for the jogger getting run over?

If the vehicle is parked illegally, yep.

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blk_frmnt · 18-11-2007, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by alstar5

If the vehicle is parked illegally, yep.

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We're not talking about parking your car in the middle of a 110kph highway here...it's parked off the road, on the grass. If some idiot jogger runs past the car without pausing to look for oncoming cars and gets creamed...he got was coming to him.

alstar5 · 18-11-2007, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by blk_frmnt

We're not talking about parking your car in the middle of a 110kph highway here...it's parked off the road, on the grass. If some idiot jogger runs past the car without pausing to look for oncoming cars and gets creamed...he got was coming to him.

Look mate, I'm not going to go back and forth arguing each individual point and therefore this will be my last post on this thread.

Your right, the vehicle isn't parked on a 110km/h highway. It's parked on the nature strip blocking access to pedestrians and causing them to walk on the road instead of the footpath, thereby increasing the chance of them getting hit by an oncomming vehicle using the road.

You could argue all day long that the driver of the car should have been more alert and braked etc. but at the end of the day a law has been put in place to allow for the majority to walk safely off the road by keeping nature strips clear of parked cars. It's not your opinion that matters in this case, it's the law and it was enforced correctly. In fact, the Ranger's have gone out of their way in this case to caution the vehicle owner - this is alot more than most councils would have done and proves in this case that it is not about "revenue raising" rather than keeping the nature strip clear.

Ghiadude · 18-11-2007, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by sourbastard

I dont own a lawn mower, I pay council rates, its their land, so I ring the council 5 star generals and say "come mow the wheat outside my house, its harvest time." and they come and mow it after 2 weeks of trying to work out how to start the mower. In the meantime the nature strip gains a lovely collection of snakes, giant spiders and viet cong who seem to keep the school children population down.

Its win win.

I could be that funny but i CBF typing as much as that^^^^. Your level of commitment is inspiring.

LUXO_8 · 18-11-2007, 10:47 PM

now hang on,

how can parking on the nature strip block pedestrian access they have this thing called a footpath......theres a big difference between parking on the path and parking on the nature strip........ you know, that bit of grass between the FOOTPATH and the ROAD

Mark351 · 18-11-2007, 11:16 PM

My nature strip could hold two house blocks. The local council does mow it though, had to laugh when our neighbour mowed his last weekend, only the the council to come by a couple of days later...

Our other neighbour parked his double-B semi on his nature strip, and got it bogged during the last bit of rain. Made a real mess of the strip though.

Sourbastard · 18-11-2007, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by tx3dude

I could be that funny but i CBF typing as much as that^^^^. Your level of commitment is inspiring.

uncle forgives you.

Laminge · 18-11-2007, 11:18 PM

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Originally Posted by alstar5

And I would have booked you on the spot then and there. The warning was a courtesy. Have a thought for the child, elderly person or even the jogger wearing an ipod who dashes out onto the road because the nature strip is blocked and gets run over by a car.

I'm not having a go at you, I'm just reminding everyone that most laws are put in place for a reason.

Your not the same bloke that tried that with me in Mt Dandenong are you? I gave 3 warnings, after the 3rd I reserved my right to protect my property and removed you myself.

Not my fault you disturbed my afternoon viewing of Cops and Road Wars.

The fine was well worth the look of terror on your face, or was that your jocks riding half way up your back?

It is a small world... hahaha

GTPete · 18-11-2007, 11:55 PM

Dont you have more important things to do like catching stray dogs.
Ranger danger lol.....

Sourbastard · 19-11-2007, 12:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Laminge

Your not the same bloke that tried that with me in Mt Dandenong are you? I gave 3 warnings, after the 3rd I reserved my right to protect my property and removed you myself.

Not my fault you disturbed my afternoon viewing of Cops and Road Wars.

The fine was well worth the look of terror on your face, or was that your jocks riding half way up your back?

It is a small world... hahaha

did the ranger look like this Gary?

Laminge · 19-11-2007, 12:05 AM

If He did I would have invited him inside for rub down and a re shoe!

flappist · 19-11-2007, 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Laminge

If He did I would have invited him inside for rub down and a re shoe!

Hang on, I though YOU were the "Loan Arranger".......

rodderz · 19-11-2007, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by alstar5

And I would have booked you on the spot then and there. The warning was a courtesy. Have a thought for the child, elderly person or even the jogger wearing an ipod who dashes out onto the road because the nature strip is blocked and gets run over by a car.

I'm not having a go at you, I'm just reminding everyone that most laws are put in place for a reason.

I would call that irresposible on the pedestrians behalf on using an Ipod or walkman when planning on crossing a road used by cars, thats just as dangerous as a driver using it, which is illegal.

Not only that but most nature strips have bushy trees and shrubs which block views also, lift up concrete paths and invade pipeworks.

The laws these days seem to cater for the idiots who have no responsibilities or their actions. Drivers need too watch for pedestrians but pedestrians need to watch for cars too

blk_frmnt · 19-11-2007, 12:53 AM

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Originally Posted by rodderz

The laws these days seem to cater for the idiots who have no responsibilities or their actions. Drivers need too watch for pedestrians but pedestrians need to watch for cars too

This is what alstar5 doesn't understand, and probably never will. Let him be safe and happy drowning in endless ridiculous legislation.

/my contribution to this thread.

GORDZ · 19-11-2007, 02:10 PM

can they book you for being on the 'nature' strip if you concrete it? I guess they'd have to prove that you concreted it, but if you shrug and say 'it was there one day!' then hey, free carpark

vztrt · 19-11-2007, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by GORDZ

can they book you for being on the 'nature' strip if you concrete it? I guess they'd have to prove that you concreted it, but if you shrug and say 'it was there one day!' then hey, free carpark

I know people that have been booked because the car was slighty on the footpath (most was in the small small driveway).

mcflux · 19-11-2007, 03:04 PM

As mentioned earlier in this thread, the main reason for discouraging cars from parking on the nature strip is so that if the services located underneath (or above, if powerlines) require maintenance, the area is free of obstructions such as a 1.5 ton car.

Hell, I still do it though :P

AC · 19-11-2007, 04:27 PM

Just to make some more blood boil. :P

On my way home yesterday i counted 14 cars/trucks on the main road on the nature strip.
And on my street another 3 cars parked out on the strip.
All within a 2-3km range.

And on my way home just this arvo, more than half still there, some not even moved from yesterday.

I find it strange the 17 people didn't get the same talking to i got.
Or maybe they just don't care about getting fined.
And it seems to be everyone that usually parks out on the strip, not really uncommon around here.
I just seem to be the only one avoiding a fine.

The Mrs seems to think that maybe the garbage crew might have dobbed me in.
Garbage was picked up friday morning, Rangers on the door step Saturday.
Sort of makes sense.

4Vman · 19-11-2007, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by rodderz

The laws these days seem to cater for the idiots who have no responsibilities or their actions. Drivers need too watch for pedestrians but pedestrians need to watch for cars too

Welcome to the world we now live in, where over litigious zealots will race off to their solicitor at the slightest hint of "someone's doin me wrong"..
Where said zealots are pushing public liability insurance premiums through the roof, and clogging up our courts for years with boundry and fence disputes and trip and slip cases...
Where laws are introduced to protect the stupid (and ethically/morally corrupt) from themselves.. and councils and the authorities spend more time protecting their butts (and enforcing rediculous naturestrip laws) from being sued than doing constructive management..

Van D · 19-11-2007, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by alstar5

Look mate, I'm not going to go back and forth arguing each individual point and therefore this will be my last post on this thread.

Your right, the vehicle isn't parked on a 110km/h highway. It's parked on the nature strip blocking access to pedestrians and causing them to walk on the road instead of the footpath, thereby increasing the chance of them getting hit by an oncomming vehicle using the road.

You could argue all day long that the driver of the car should have been more alert and braked etc. but at the end of the day a law has been put in place to allow for the majority to walk safely off the road by keeping nature strips clear of parked cars. It's not your opinion that matters in this case, it's the law and it was enforced correctly. In fact, the Ranger's have gone out of their way in this case to caution the vehicle owner - this is alot more than most councils would have done and proves in this case that it is not about "revenue raising" rather than keeping the nature strip clear.

The nature strip isn't the footpath!!

Bent8 · 19-11-2007, 09:58 PM

This is what happens when the Govt get's too big, it get's greedy when it should remain small and serve/protect the people instead of it's corporate interests...

UNR8D · 20-11-2007, 10:33 PM

they tried to do this to us at work, mean while the council parked illegaly in a no standing zone to ticket 3 cars, GM came out to see what the go was, asked if they mowed/watered/maintained the ground, answer was 'no' they were advised to vacate in a few more words :P . lol

alstar5 · 20-11-2007, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by UNR8D

they tried to do this to us at work, mean while the council parked illegaly in a no standing zone to ticket 3 cars

LOL, I know this is beside the point but seeing as I'm the crap stirrer (and the minority) in this thread I may as well go all out. Local Government Law Enforcement vehicles are exempt from No Parking / Standing zones when carrying out the course of their duties (such as infringing a vehicle).