Gangsta Traffic Wardens
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brix said:
Yes. I always ask people I encounter where they are from. I fınd ıt helps break the ıce, whıch ıs especıally useful when ıt comes to traffıc wardens. Furthermore, at least two of them were Yoruba. Now, does anyone have any more questıons or can I take my çay break?
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
sorry, i read that as gay break.
brix said:Oh God, yeah, thanks Toggle. completely forgot that Phil was ALL KNOWING for a minute there!
Look, ıf you really want to dıspute the fact that at *least* 50% of London's traffıc wardens are of Yoruba stock, the matter ıs easıly settled. Why don't you, Poggle and Tootle toddle off down the road, *ask* a few of the blıghters, and report back to us? Wıll that satısfy you?
toggle said:
Oh alrıght then:
'in London about 60 per cent of traffic wardens are from west Africa'
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200307/ai_n9243052
Let that be a lesson to you: *never* questıon my wısdom agaın.
Structaural
in Chatsubo
RushcroftRoader said:I wonder what the collective noun for a group of traffic wardens might be?
A "shit" of traffic wardens perhaps? Suggestions on a postcard please.
Anyway, at the end of their shift, a whole gaggle of them sit on the wall outsite my flat. I am always sure to ask them if they have a permit for parking there.
Less traffic wardens, more bobbies please.
An impatience of Traffic Wardens?
(don't mind 'em myself - don't drive, don't care about drivers)
Can someone, anyone, explain why it matters where they come from??
Apart from the fact that (whether you agree with Lambeth's parking practices or not) it must be a shit job, badly paid and with constant aggro and abuse for policies which they didn't decree, and only get paid if they implement?
Apart from the fact that (whether you agree with Lambeth's parking practices or not) it must be a shit job, badly paid and with constant aggro and abuse for policies which they didn't decree, and only get paid if they implement?
flipping 'eck! Didn't realise it was gonna open such a big can of writhing worms.
My comment about "a kingpin in Nigeria" was not meant to be taken seriously.
I'm sure there are a lot of countries being proudly represented by our fine upstanding Lambeth traffic wardens!
Back to my original question - is there a conspiracy to leave the rest of Brixton awash with all the illegal parked cars who moved away from risking a ticket on saltoun and surrounding roads?
is it just because they're gonna catch more cars that way? (brixton market shoppers parked there for 5 minutes while they buy a loaf of bread? I've seen it so many times!!)
My comment about "a kingpin in Nigeria" was not meant to be taken seriously.
I'm sure there are a lot of countries being proudly represented by our fine upstanding Lambeth traffic wardens!
Back to my original question - is there a conspiracy to leave the rest of Brixton awash with all the illegal parked cars who moved away from risking a ticket on saltoun and surrounding roads?
is it just because they're gonna catch more cars that way? (brixton market shoppers parked there for 5 minutes while they buy a loaf of bread? I've seen it so many times!!)
BrixiSteve
Reluctant Human
Fuck, you're all so touchy today.
I think most people in here would realise that the Nigerian remark was nothing but a bit of light humour. BUT, while we are at it I have to say that both my driving instructors were from Nigeria and BOTH constantly joked about the fact that most of the wardens around here are Nigerian.
Now, don't waste your time having a go at me for this because genral humourless 'up-tightness' bores the tits off me.
There is a difference between being racist and being racially aware.
I think most people in here would realise that the Nigerian remark was nothing but a bit of light humour. BUT, while we are at it I have to say that both my driving instructors were from Nigeria and BOTH constantly joked about the fact that most of the wardens around here are Nigerian.
Now, don't waste your time having a go at me for this because genral humourless 'up-tightness' bores the tits off me.
There is a difference between being racist and being racially aware.
I thought the idea was to raise as much cash as possible by being as ruthless a warden as possible then fucking off back to Nigeria to live the rest of yer life in luxury. Nice work if you can get it . . .
Stobart Stopper
Well-Known Member
Wrong!phildwyer said:
The ones we have here in Redbridge are mostly white, I think I have only ever seen about 2 black guys doing the job here.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Erm ... regardless of phildwyer's abrasive qualities, over 80% of traffic wardens in INNER London ARE, in fact, from West Africa.
They are indeed mostly, but not exclusively, [southern] Nigerian; there are large subgroups of Sierra Leoneans and Liberians as well. There was a great Radio 4 programme on last year called Lovely Rita, transmitted on the 19th of August, presented by a bloke called Ade Daramy, which looked into why it has become such a common occupation for West Africans and how/why they take a jub which inspires such hatred, abuse and violence from the public.
However: it's also true that in central Brixton they are running rampant and that dodgy dealings (ticketing moving vehicles, vehicles which have been invovled in accidents, correctly-parked vehicles, vehicles which have been stationary for less than the legally-allowed 2 minutes, etc) are extremely common. basically the streets of central brixton are very tightly controlled, they're near the wardens' home base, and they're also full of a high traffic of people who love to park appallingly and illegally. All of this adds up to £££££££ for the revenue enforcement teams of Lambeth Parking.
A comic moment: walking to work last week, just behind Morleys, I saw a roiling crowd (well a crowdlet - about 30 people, men women and children) milling about muttering away angrily in Yoruba (I know it was Yoruba because I speak a bit of it - so there ). In the middle of the group stood a sole parking warden who was obviously the focus of their bad feeling - I only caught bits of the dispute but it seemed to be about his ticketing the car of a woman with small children who had then been clamped.
She was weeping and wailing, the warden was shouting, the rest of the crowd seemed ready to get a bit physical, so I was walking swiftly away ... when around the corner sped a large white van, driven by a 40something Caribbean Rastafarian man, who stuck his head out of the window and (not very helpfully) shouted STRING 'IM UP!!!!
only in brixton...
They are indeed mostly, but not exclusively, [southern] Nigerian; there are large subgroups of Sierra Leoneans and Liberians as well. There was a great Radio 4 programme on last year called Lovely Rita, transmitted on the 19th of August, presented by a bloke called Ade Daramy, which looked into why it has become such a common occupation for West Africans and how/why they take a jub which inspires such hatred, abuse and violence from the public.
However: it's also true that in central Brixton they are running rampant and that dodgy dealings (ticketing moving vehicles, vehicles which have been invovled in accidents, correctly-parked vehicles, vehicles which have been stationary for less than the legally-allowed 2 minutes, etc) are extremely common. basically the streets of central brixton are very tightly controlled, they're near the wardens' home base, and they're also full of a high traffic of people who love to park appallingly and illegally. All of this adds up to £££££££ for the revenue enforcement teams of Lambeth Parking.
A comic moment: walking to work last week, just behind Morleys, I saw a roiling crowd (well a crowdlet - about 30 people, men women and children) milling about muttering away angrily in Yoruba (I know it was Yoruba because I speak a bit of it - so there
). In the middle of the group stood a sole parking warden who was obviously the focus of their bad feeling - I only caught bits of the dispute but it seemed to be about his ticketing the car of a woman with small children who had then been clamped.She was weeping and wailing, the warden was shouting, the rest of the crowd seemed ready to get a bit physical, so I was walking swiftly away ... when around the corner sped a large white van, driven by a 40something Caribbean Rastafarian man, who stuck his head out of the window and (not very helpfully) shouted STRING 'IM UP!!!!
only in brixton...
trabuquera said:only in brixton...
Indeed. Off-topic, but does anyone know what that place is opposite the back of Morleys there, and whether the urban myth that the house where Bowie grew up used to be there is true? Is it a drop in centre or a church or what? Walk past it every day but can't figure it out.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
gabi said:
afaik it is a privately-funded buddhist centre. surprised you haven't been tipped off by the rather loud droning chanting amnyohorengekyo (x infinity) that emerges from there. I think they also do some sort of 'training courses' and 'counselling' - don't know how state-funded and/or how culty they are though.
Clearly the vibes are not that effective or they'd have calmed down the Nigerian lynch-mob-in-waiting, which was only yards outside ....
