19 November 2012

Parking Parliament House Style

19 November 2012 | johnboy

Aaron sent this one in:

I’ll see your “Parking Belconnen Style” and raise you to “disabled parking spot fail”

I snapped this one at Parliament house, as you can sort of see in the background, the parking lot isnt exactly full…

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jayskette11:09 pm 20 Nov 12

Parked well between the lines, not in the disabled spot, what more could people possibly want? lol

PantsMan8:29 pm 20 Nov 12

stormboy said :

That’s all well and good if it’s your p.o.s. ute Pantsman. Doesn’t change the fact that you are a **** with no respect for others.

Disrespecting parliamentary sovereignty is the first step on the road to totalitarianism.

Attitudes like yours are how wars start.

460cixy10:14 am 20 Nov 12

PantsMan said :

steveu said :

AFP protective services are contracted to patrol the outside areas of the parliamentary precinct. They are non sworn members who use public orders as enforcement, as well as sections of the parliamentary precincts act, to to their job. ACT govt is invited to issue parking tickets in the parliamentary precinct by the presiding officers (sgt at arms and president of the senate).

Yeh mate. I still say get farrkked. Youse can’t touch me’s ute there.

There is a difference between getting a purportedly enforceable ticket in a yellow envelope and being legally obligated to pay it. Without an offence under a Commonwealth law prosecuted with the agreement of the Presiding Officers, there is no legal obligation to pay. This amounts to a gross attack on the principle of Westminster parliamentary sovereignty and the separation of powers.

So, basically, touch my ute and I’ll see you in the High Court.

Is that like the anu parking tickets they hand out willy nilly? I had a few and never paid them and had no dramas. there not like a normal parking ticket there dished out by anu security with there own letter head on the ticket not the normal ticket the local brown bomber hands out

stormboy8:19 am 20 Nov 12

That’s all well and good if it’s your p.o.s. ute Pantsman. Doesn’t change the fact that you are a **** with no respect for others.

steveu6:53 am 20 Nov 12

PantsMan said :

So, basically, touch my ute and I’ll see you in the High Court.

Well if you can do that and thus set precedent, you would be seen as a local here. Well, inside the parliamentary precinct anyway.

PantsMan10:08 pm 19 Nov 12

steveu said :

AFP protective services are contracted to patrol the outside areas of the parliamentary precinct. They are non sworn members who use public orders as enforcement, as well as sections of the parliamentary precincts act, to to their job. ACT govt is invited to issue parking tickets in the parliamentary precinct by the presiding officers (sgt at arms and president of the senate).

Yeh mate. I still say get farrkked. Youse can’t touch me’s ute there.

There is a difference between getting a purportedly enforceable ticket in a yellow envelope and being legally obligated to pay it. Without an offence under a Commonwealth law prosecuted with the agreement of the Presiding Officers, there is no legal obligation to pay. This amounts to a gross attack on the principle of Westminster parliamentary sovereignty and the separation of powers.

So, basically, touch my ute and I’ll see you in the High Court.

eily8:38 pm 19 Nov 12

It could be that the driver is not disabled but their passenger is. It would be difficult to get in and out of the passenger side with that fence there if they actually parked in the right spot.

There does appear to be a orange light on the ute’s roof which could open a whole new can of worms though.

steveu8:12 pm 19 Nov 12

AFP protective services are contracted to patrol the outside areas of the parliamentary precinct. They are non sworn members who use public orders as enforcement, as well as sections of the parliamentary precincts act, to to their job. ACT govt is invited to issue parking tickets in the parliamentary precinct by the presiding officers (sgt at arms and president of the senate).

RadioVK7:41 pm 19 Nov 12

dph said :

Deref said :

dph said :

How much money would we like to wager that this ute belongs to a tradie?

Exactly. They’re allowed to park there. Or anywhere else.

They don’t even have to indicate or stay inside their own lane.
Giving way at an intersection? Forget about it. Obeying road rules? Get faarrkked.
When you’re tradie, you don’t bother with such nonsense.

The same could be said for a lot of drivers on the roads who aren’t tradies as well. Tradies just tend to stand out more.

Bad driving is hardly confined to a few demographics, we believe in equal opportunity here in Canberra you know.

dph5:28 pm 19 Nov 12

Deref said :

dph said :

How much money would we like to wager that this ute belongs to a tradie?

Exactly. They’re allowed to park there. Or anywhere else.

They don’t even have to indicate or stay inside their own lane.
Giving way at an intersection? Forget about it. Obeying road rules? Get faarrkked.
When you’re tradie, you don’t bother with such nonsense.

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