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Earlier this evening I jumped over my back garden fence to retrieve my watch that had been thrown over the night before as a jocular jape and was fined £50 for trespassing on railway property ! Someone saw me track side as it were and reported me, and before I knew it I was being questioned by 2 employees of the Transport Police ! A £50 fixed penalty was issued and despite my pitiful claims of naivety and tales of irony of when on numerous occasions in the past I had informed the Police of real perpetrating track side yet to no avail, the said penalty stood ! I ask you !! Jobsworth or correct decision ? You decide ! Bearing in mind that I live on the ” Minimum speed limit ” side of the track and was told that I could have been sucked under ( Chance would be a fine thing ! ) by a speeding Virgin ( chance would be a fine thing ! ) train ! Idiots down the road chucking their empties on to the track one night and chavs kicking fcuk out of the railway station shelters another and nothing happens. A track side resident jumps over his fence to get his watch and bang to rights £ 50 wam bam thank you mam !
2 questions for you..1. why did you throw your watch over the fence?
2. who saw you and who grassed you up?I didnt throw the watch over someone else did and dont know who dobbed me in ? Someone on the platform I think ! He told me I had 28 days to pay the fine yet on closer inspection of my penalty notice ( Small Print ) it says 21 ! The get has misinformed me hoping I will wait till day 27 to pay and all ready have incurred a doubling up of the fine ! What a t o s s e r !
who ever threw your watch over should give you the money to pay it because if it was not for them throwing it over you would have had no reason to go over the fence?
I bet it was Arky who threw it, Bob ;)
On the subject of jobsworths, I go swimming with my 5-year old lad at Hindley baths every Sunday. He loves being thrown in the air which, with his weight and my puny arms, amounts to about 3 to 4 feet in the air and about 6 to 8 feet horizontally.
I have done this for months and months with no issue. Yesterday, however, the self-appointed King of the Lifeguards asked, sorry told, me to “stop throwing my child”. When I asked why he said – without a trace of irony – “because everyone will copy you and soon there will be kids flying all across the pool”.
Jobsworth berk!
By the way after I had sent a long winded Email to the powers that be at BTP touching on the lack of police discretion and how my phone calls were ignored when real crimes track side were taking place, I received a reply saying that my penalty notice had been rescinded !! ;) He stood by his officers actions added …To quote…..”Despite these facts however, it would be professionally pedestrian of me if I did not recognise the quality and depth of the mitigation you offer; I have therefore decided to use my authority in this matter to have this particular Penalty Notice voided and withdrawn”
Just goes to show that if you feel hard done to you can do something about it instead of just rolling over !By the way after I had sent a long winded Email to the powers that be at BTP touching on the lack of police discretion and how my phone calls were ignored when real crimes track side were taking place, I received a reply saying that my penalty notice had been rescinded !! ;) He stood by his officers actions added …To quote…..”Despite these facts however, it would be professionally pedestrian of me if I did not recognise the quality and depth of the mitigation you offer; I have therefore decided to use my authority in this matter to have this particular Penalty Notice voided and withdrawn”
Just goes to show that if you feel hard done to you can do something about it instead of just rolling over !You shouldn’t be trespassing!! :P
It gets my back up how many of these type of jobsworth idiots there are these days, a total lack of any common sense or understanding, they spend their days trying to justify their existance in boring jobs.
I bet it was Arky who threw it, Bob ;)On the subject of jobsworths, I go swimming with my 5-year old lad at Hindley baths every Sunday. He loves being thrown in the air which, with his weight and my puny arms, amounts to about 3 to 4 feet in the air and about 6 to 8 feet horizontally.
I have done this for months and months with no issue. Yesterday, however, the self-appointed King of the Lifeguards asked, sorry told, me to “stop throwing my child”. When I asked why he said – without a trace of irony – “because everyone will copy you and soon there will be kids flying all across the pool”.
Jobsworth berk!
And this week’s offering from Hindley baths…
My lad (5, keep up) has recently managed to swim a full length and loves to go from shallow to deep cos he loves getting to the deep end then climbing out and jumping in when he gets there – who wouldn’t.
We make him swim very close to the side and I am right behing him and Mrs Griff is right at the side of him. Lifeguard Jobsworth #2 asked me to take him back to the shallow end “cos he can’t swim”.
Having asked if her eyes were deceiving her, she said she meant that he shouldn’t be swimming to the deep end until he could do it. She couldn’t answer a) how he was supposed to find out if he could do it or not without trying and b) whether the fact that he has been doing it for the last 6 weeks was not proof enough.
Her only answer: “It’s policy”. What? Policy is to discourage kids from learning to swim?
I bet it was Arky who threw it, Bob ;)
On the subject of jobsworths, I go swimming with my 5-year old lad at Hindley baths every Sunday. He loves being thrown in the air which, with his weight and my puny arms, amounts to about 3 to 4 feet in the air and about 6 to 8 feet horizontally.
I have done this for months and months with no issue. Yesterday, however, the self-appointed King of the Lifeguards asked, sorry told, me to “stop throwing my child”. When I asked why he said – without a trace of irony – “because everyone will copy you and soon there will be kids flying all across the pool”.
Jobsworth berk!
And this week’s offering from Hindley baths…
My lad (5, keep up) has recently managed to swim a full length and loves to go from shallow to deep cos he loves getting to the deep end then climbing out and jumping in when he gets there – who wouldn’t.
We make him swim very close to the side and I am right behing him and Mrs Griff is right at the side of him. Lifeguard Jobsworth #2 asked me to take him back to the shallow end “cos he can’t swim”.
Having asked if her eyes were deceiving her, she said she meant that he shouldn’t be swimming to the deep end until he could do it. She couldn’t answer a) how he was supposed to find out if he could do it or not without trying and b) whether the fact that he has been doing it for the last 6 weeks was not proof enough.
Her only answer: “It’s policy”. What? Policy is to discourage kids from learning to swim?[/quote]
Health and safety, gone nuts. What a nanny-state we live in.
And this week’s offering from Hindley baths…
My lad (5, keep up) has recently managed to swim a full length and loves to go from shallow to deep cos he loves getting to the deep end then climbing out and jumping in when he gets there – who wouldn’t.
We make him swim very close to the side and I am right behing him and Mrs Griff is right at the side of him. Lifeguard Jobsworth #2 asked me to take him back to the shallow end “cos he can’t swim”.
Having asked if her eyes were deceiving her, she said she meant that he shouldn’t be swimming to the deep end until he could do it. She couldn’t answer a) how he was supposed to find out if he could do it or not without trying and b) whether the fact that he has been doing it for the last 6 weeks was not proof enough.
Her only answer: “It’s policy”. What? Policy is to discourage kids from learning to swim?
Health and safety, gone nuts. What a nanny-state we live in.[/quote]
She probably only picked on us Dave cos we have been friendly with her since we got to know her over the last few months and expected us to politely conform.
I thought she was going to cry when we argued back AND ignored her order.
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