no compassion on victoria st.
Good morning listeners....
Honest dave sympathise with the lovely Meter Maids this morning. A meter maid employed by the hamilton city council had a shocker in the main street of hamiltron. Queen Victoria her self would have rolled in her royal grave, rolling in sheer disgust at the absence of victorian manners shown to this parking enforcement officer who lay collapsed on Victoria st.
yes..... the waikato times says that for at least 30 seconds a collapsed officer of the parking meter, lay unattended on our street. 30 seconds.
Now we all know what victoria st is like on a tuesday. It's pedestrian mayhem. It's like new york just without the yellow taxis, hispanics, african americans, red indiansand decent bagels . Its like tokyo with out neon. Its like the que at the bottom of the eiffiel tower on a sunny french day in june... it's pedestrian mayhem.and to be definitive the waikato times said.. and i quote... 'there were people around'
honest dave this morning will attempt to calulate how many hamiltonians could have possibly passed the parking officer... and to reenact the collapse on the footpath ..something not too dramatic bit i will definetly lly horizontal with heavy breathing on the street.....right outside the casino entrance, .. sam will check his watch for 30 seconds and we will ascertain the number of pedestrians that could have, that COULD have, that had the POTENTIAL to aid the fallen officer on the pavement of victoria st on tuesday. Righto. Im gone....
(at this point sam the gen dj narrates from studio window as the 'non-action' unfolds)
(post note... 5 people walked past me.... even a woman walking behind me, even though i collapsed in front of her!! it took a minute before a council garden worker came to my aid)
there could be several reasons why nobody came to the aid of the meter maid.
1.Maybe its because people associate meter maids with food. Parking enforcers seem so hungry to deliver tickets and people are normally stung with a ticket after parking for a coffee that after 10 seconds of lying on the pavement most people knew that the parking officer would be inedible and unhygenic. Let me remind you hamiltonians that parking officers are not food. The 10 second rule does not apply to them. They may be picked up after 10 seconds.
2 maybe people thought it was some new tactic by the HCC for increased parking meter revenue. Agressive, proactive meter taxation. Maybe some thought it was a plan to distract and to deploy citizens from feeding the meter. The theory is this - coupled with 2 way radio, the fallen metermaid is told to collapse just as another warden stakes out a citizen in that pivotal posture where the right hand plonks in the pocket hoping for the chinking of suitable coinage. People who watch too much television late at night may have thought the collapsed meter maid was in deed a decoy.
3.Perhaps people thought they were on hood st, not victoria st. There are lots of hoods on hood st and a some citizens may not have wished to be hoodwinked into aiding a potential robber dressed as a meter maid.
4.Maybe they thought that because meter maids own the pavement and the parking meters and the road next to the pavement, they want to have a small smoko break-slash-collapse on the pavement.. then so be it.
5.Maybe people thought that, through the harsh lessons of experience, the only way to relate to a meter maid was to write a letter. Maybe all those that saw the fallen mater maid hurried to whitcoulls and began to write letters of sympathy not forgetting to explain the 4 reasons why they were unable to assist on this occasion and it wont happen again, yours faithfully, hamilton citizen.
6.maybe people had flashbacks of hamiltons very own commonwealth walker who suffered dehydration near the finish.....and remember the turmoil of les mill, standing right beside him - If he touched him, our NZ walker would be disqualified. This is an unlikely scenario though as meter maids always carry water on their person.
Honest dave apologises on behalf of all by standers on tuesday knowing that to bystand without byhelping when somebody is bycollapsing even when someone is emplyed by the HCC, to enforce parking bylaws and even if you are bi or hetro, there is no excuse to belie her grace queen victoria and all that she stands for on victoria st. word.
we finish this rant with the NZ musician most likely to collapse indeed on any street, not neccesarily victoria st, with Jordan Luck singing 'victoria'...
you've been listening to honest dave on the generator....89 fm...
Honest dave sympathise with the lovely Meter Maids this morning. A meter maid employed by the hamilton city council had a shocker in the main street of hamiltron. Queen Victoria her self would have rolled in her royal grave, rolling in sheer disgust at the absence of victorian manners shown to this parking enforcement officer who lay collapsed on Victoria st.
yes..... the waikato times says that for at least 30 seconds a collapsed officer of the parking meter, lay unattended on our street. 30 seconds.
Now we all know what victoria st is like on a tuesday. It's pedestrian mayhem. It's like new york just without the yellow taxis, hispanics, african americans, red indiansand decent bagels . Its like tokyo with out neon. Its like the que at the bottom of the eiffiel tower on a sunny french day in june... it's pedestrian mayhem.and to be definitive the waikato times said.. and i quote... 'there were people around'
honest dave this morning will attempt to calulate how many hamiltonians could have possibly passed the parking officer... and to reenact the collapse on the footpath ..something not too dramatic bit i will definetly lly horizontal with heavy breathing on the street.....right outside the casino entrance, .. sam will check his watch for 30 seconds and we will ascertain the number of pedestrians that could have, that COULD have, that had the POTENTIAL to aid the fallen officer on the pavement of victoria st on tuesday. Righto. Im gone....
(at this point sam the gen dj narrates from studio window as the 'non-action' unfolds)
(post note... 5 people walked past me.... even a woman walking behind me, even though i collapsed in front of her!! it took a minute before a council garden worker came to my aid)
there could be several reasons why nobody came to the aid of the meter maid.
1.Maybe its because people associate meter maids with food. Parking enforcers seem so hungry to deliver tickets and people are normally stung with a ticket after parking for a coffee that after 10 seconds of lying on the pavement most people knew that the parking officer would be inedible and unhygenic. Let me remind you hamiltonians that parking officers are not food. The 10 second rule does not apply to them. They may be picked up after 10 seconds.
2 maybe people thought it was some new tactic by the HCC for increased parking meter revenue. Agressive, proactive meter taxation. Maybe some thought it was a plan to distract and to deploy citizens from feeding the meter. The theory is this - coupled with 2 way radio, the fallen metermaid is told to collapse just as another warden stakes out a citizen in that pivotal posture where the right hand plonks in the pocket hoping for the chinking of suitable coinage. People who watch too much television late at night may have thought the collapsed meter maid was in deed a decoy.
3.Perhaps people thought they were on hood st, not victoria st. There are lots of hoods on hood st and a some citizens may not have wished to be hoodwinked into aiding a potential robber dressed as a meter maid.
4.Maybe they thought that because meter maids own the pavement and the parking meters and the road next to the pavement, they want to have a small smoko break-slash-collapse on the pavement.. then so be it.
5.Maybe people thought that, through the harsh lessons of experience, the only way to relate to a meter maid was to write a letter. Maybe all those that saw the fallen mater maid hurried to whitcoulls and began to write letters of sympathy not forgetting to explain the 4 reasons why they were unable to assist on this occasion and it wont happen again, yours faithfully, hamilton citizen.
6.maybe people had flashbacks of hamiltons very own commonwealth walker who suffered dehydration near the finish.....and remember the turmoil of les mill, standing right beside him - If he touched him, our NZ walker would be disqualified. This is an unlikely scenario though as meter maids always carry water on their person.
Honest dave apologises on behalf of all by standers on tuesday knowing that to bystand without byhelping when somebody is bycollapsing even when someone is emplyed by the HCC, to enforce parking bylaws and even if you are bi or hetro, there is no excuse to belie her grace queen victoria and all that she stands for on victoria st. word.
we finish this rant with the NZ musician most likely to collapse indeed on any street, not neccesarily victoria st, with Jordan Luck singing 'victoria'...
you've been listening to honest dave on the generator....89 fm...
posted by Honest Dave at 9:10 am
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