Traffic Warden camera - conviction

[sheddy]

Sorry if posted elsewhere - Salford news video here

http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?go=homepage&scope=all&q=traffic+warden+camera

 

[BentMikey]

I saw this, and thought it was an excellent idea. It's about time these bloody people got convicted for the abuse they hand out to traffic wardens.

 

[ufkacbln]

No-one else spotted that it was a cyclist doing the abusing??

 

[BentMikey]

I saw his bike, that did surprise me!

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

If you look at some of the internet comment pages, you will see that some posters regard this as entirely typical behaviour from cyclists.

 

[tdr1nka]

I found this news item rather troubling as the only stock footage available from the Wardens shows an altercation with an apparently recognised offender who happens to be riding a bike.

I wonder if the man with the bike, I hesitate to call him a cyclist, is on a driving ban perhaps? Otherwise wouldn't an altercation with a motorist make more sense or even have greater impact using the Vidcam facility to expose the behaviours it was brought in to reduce.

Very strange messages.

 

[Tynan]

starting on someone just doing their job is stupid and wants punishing

 

[Perry]

starting on someone just doing their job is stupid and wants punishing

I agree, I wonder how many of the people who abuse Traffic Wardens complain about the Yob Culture and Anti-Social behaviour?