When I was booked for (inadvertently*) driving in restricted areas without the necessary permits in Italy, two separate city authorities obtained my UK address from the car-hire company and sent me the paperwork for the resulting fines printed in English. I paid them (via my UK bank) in case non-payment might have been recorded and prevented my hiring a car there in future.
Has anyone noticed the increased use of hands-free mobile calls. They can be video calls or audio only and initially I thought it was old codgers needing increased volume to listen to the far end, but now more likely to be a streamed video call where the user must ramp up the volume to hear and see the distant party (clearly a view of ear wax isn’t liked).
I was on a Merseyrail train a couple of weeks ago and another passenger was speaking loudly and giving out a password for some kind of financial transaction.
Quite. The sort of person who wilfully and arrogantly puts their feet on seats is also probably also often going to be the sort to ignore penalties, at least to start with. The original penalty is the key issue here - ignore at your peril is perhaps the message.
But surely the reason your feet are on the end of your legs is because that is the most convenient place for them to be in order to connect your body to the ground. They're indispensable as an aid to standing and walking. I agree there is no need for them to carry out that function when the owner of them is seated. But surely, the best place for feet (whether shod or not) is on the ground or floor. There simply is no need for them to be on seats, whether they (the feet) are pristine or not, because they are perfectly at home on the floor. There should be a simple rule - bums on seats, feet on floor. It's easy and unarguable.
The Welsh Language Act stipulates that Welsh and English languages should be treated equally in the conduct of public business in Wales. It applies to public bodies which provide services to the public in Wales. I'm not sure but I don't think that Merseyrail provides services in Wales. If your supposition was to apply to Welsh residents, wherever in the UK they transgressed, it would mean Scotrail would have to provide their penalty notice documentation in Welsh in case a Welsh passenger was caught fare dodging between Georgemas Junction and Thurso!
If they are so clean why do they often stink? They are confined inside shoes where they get hot and sweat (After a hot day walking the Isle of Wight coast path I took my trainers off on the train.....then quickly had to put them back on out of embarrassment!).
I opened a letter for a moved away neighbour and it was a fine from an Italian city and the bill had got very large with their legal fees for chasing it.
Wasn't there a case quite recently where a chap raised a stink
on a train somewhere in Hampshire after getting grief for removing his boots? I certainly wouldn't want to sit on seat that had had whiffy feet like that on them, give me clean trainers anyday!
I returned home from a holiday in Brittany in the 1990s to find a parking fine from St Malo, which I contemplated not paying but did so. Talking to a local Cornish traffic warden at the time, I enquired whether European registered cars received tickets here, to which he replied they were instructed to turn a blind eye!
There is a lot of controversy at present about foreign drivers being chased for driving in London's ULEZ. The company pursuing them (Euro Parking Collection) is apparently breaching EU data protection rules to get the owners' details from the foreign equivalents of the DVLA - and also misclassifying some ordinary cars as HGVs
It appears to be quite common for people using airline seats on Thameslink services to sit sideways with their feet up on the seat.
Just as bad as the other day on the bus, kid around three or four talking away, pointing out things in the street through the window and saying “look mummy, look”, etc. Young mother who didn’t look much older than a teenager herself, telling her offspring to “shut up, you’re doing my f****ng head in”……what chance in life has the kid got with a parent like that??
I’m not a parent myself and would never claim to ”know better”, but the cusses that I have heard levelled by parents recently [within my earshot] leave me very saddened. It definitely doesn’t do anything positive for a child’s self-image.
Railway staff are reluctant to confront anti-social behaviour, for fear of a violent reaction.
I see that a woman has ended up with a £480 bill for putting feet on seats on Merseyrail train. (She did not pay the initial penalty).
I see from the comments that most members of the public are pleased that action was taken to stop this filthy habit of soiling the seats.
Woman gets 'ridiculous' £480 bill for putting foot on train seat
She is one of several passengers from Wales who have received hefty court bills for breaching a byelaw on an English rail networkwww.walesonline.co.uk
A smartphone shrinks the visible universe to around 20 inches from the user's body. As in the edge of the observable universe, no information can pass outside to inside or vice versa.
A vicious circle. Few if anyone wants to risk violence upon themself by calling out poor behaviour, but not doing so effectively validates it by permitting actions without consequences, and so it continues with externalised consequences inflicted on third parties. Ultimately I believe the only way to prevent antisocial/thoughtless behaviour from the morally dead is to frequently internalise consequences that are high enough that the cost exceeds the gain and the risk is not worth it.
I don't think there are any other official languages in France apart from French (if there are, English certainly isn't one of them). In Wales however...... So no, an English speaker will not get away with that in France.
There was talk about this happening a few years ago now. It certainly makes sense for PNDs to encompass byelaw infringements, but only BTP or RSAS staff can issue these anyway.
Yes. I'd say CSAS/RSAS (Community or Railway Safety Accreditation Scheme) really is a bare minimum that enforcement staff can be expected to be trained to.
I got a fixed penalty of £75 in Bristol for chucking a dog end on the pavement. Bang to rights. Reduced to £50 if paid within 10 days. Paid up online when I got home. Instrumental in making me give up smoking (saved the cost in 3 weeks of not buying fags). You see daft headlines like 'Woman fined £700 for dropping a cigarette end' where the person failed to engage at any steps along the route to the mags court.
