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ORPINGTON: Cop car parks in disabled space
11:01am Monday 27th September 2010 in News
ORPINGTON: Cop car parks in disabled space
AT FOUR in the morning there are lots of parking spaces available at the Tesco shop in Orpington.
But, as this picture shows, police officers in a patrol car still decided to use a disabled space when visiting the store’s security office.
The vehicle was snapped by a nightshift worker while on his break who says he saw one of the officers walking leisurely through the supermarket.
A Bromley police spokesman says the officers had been called to reports of vehicle tampering in Orpington High Street and were in the store to see if the CCTV showed anything useful.
He added: “Under normal circumstances police vehicles would not park in disabled parking spaces.
“There are, however, occasions when police officers need to park quickly and safely to attend an incident or to speak to someone.
“No offence was being committed, as the parking bay is on private property and not a public highway.”
Comments(28)
Orp Boy
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11:45am Mon 27 Sep 10
Locked and Loaded
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11:50am Mon 27 Sep 10
Best wishes Simon from me.
Laura Norder
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11:57am Mon 27 Sep 10
Excalibur
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12:00pm Mon 27 Sep 10
Locked and Loaded
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12:28pm Mon 27 Sep 10
Excalibur
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1:11pm Mon 27 Sep 10
It's Me again !
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1:12pm Mon 27 Sep 10
As for this story .......
BORING !!!
Excalibur
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1:12pm Mon 27 Sep 10
Big Will Johnson
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1:26pm Mon 27 Sep 10
Only_me!!
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1:47pm Mon 27 Sep 10
jca111
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2:24pm Mon 27 Sep 10
BUT it was 4am etc, and plenty of spaces, and they were there on official business.
So whilst the Police should learn, if just for a PR exercise, to park in the proper bays on non-emergencies, its hardly worth being in NS
The standards have definately fallen.
Tom Next
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2:34pm Mon 27 Sep 10
Tom Next
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2:55pm Mon 27 Sep 10
A Bromley high street shop is believed to have been the scene of a major crime after a sharp eyed assistant noticed a fly was missing in the window. The shocked employee, who wished to remain anonymous, said “One minute it was there – buzzing around happily with its mates - and the next it was gone”. Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was seen decamping from the scene, armed with a fly swatter and a can of insect spray.
geoffrey204
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3:15pm Mon 27 Sep 10
jennijen
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3:36pm Mon 27 Sep 10
StopTheSpin
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3:46pm Mon 27 Sep 10
Orp Boy
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3:51pm Mon 27 Sep 10
jennijen wrote:The question of respect is we should respect the fact it was 4 in the morning and they was on duty and there where 20 empty disabled bays next to the entrance. To be honest if I was poping to tescos at 4 in the morning i would park in the mother and toddler bit next to the entrance as i would assume anyone walking there toddler round a suppermarket at 4 in the morning has less respect than me for parking in one of the empty 20 bays
re cop in disabled driver bay at Tesco-it's a question of respect. If other drivers see this happening they will think it's ok for anyone to use such spaces. I had to ask a policeman to move out of the last space in the disabled car park in Orpington as his sidekick had gone to the bank! He asked me 'Oh do you need it then?' I wouldn't be asking was my reply. He moved with a grumpy manner
Big Will Johnson
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3:52pm Mon 27 Sep 10
jennijen wrote:I bet you then legged it into the shop faster than Linford Christie............
re cop in disabled driver bay at Tesco-it's a question of respect. If other drivers see this happening they will think it's ok for anyone to use such spaces. I had to ask a policeman to move out of the last space in the disabled car park in Orpington as his sidekick had gone to the bank! He asked me 'Oh do you need it then?' I wouldn't be asking was my reply. He moved with a grumpy manner
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HayesMum
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6:55am Wed 29 Sep 10
Like living in the country where the local news is all about a new cow someone has and other trivia.
Gooner1976
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10:59am Wed 29 Sep 10
porkpie
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12:49pm Wed 29 Sep 10
Gooner1976 wrote:Being disabled is not a life style choice, having kids is.
Very rare i agree with certain people on here but 100% on this one! Any of the vast amount of disabled drivers doing a 4am shop would have been disgusted having to park in one of the 200 other empty disabled bays! If you want to touch the subject, better looking at the people using the disabled bays! How many are actually disabled? 1 in 50? My particular favourite, when my wife used to take our children shopping when babies, blue badge holders(mainly old duffers) used to park in the mother and baby bays whilst there was a whole line of empty disabled bays opposite!
Big Will Johnson
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1:40pm Wed 29 Sep 10
porkpie
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3:24pm Wed 29 Sep 10
Big Will Johnson wrote:Yeah at 4am !
No, but taking the p*ss as 95% of blue badge holders do is.
porkpie
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3:28pm Wed 29 Sep 10
Big Will Johnson wrote:Why are they taken the pee ? Maybe all the spaces were taken and that lifestyle space was the only one left. Were you there did you see it happen ? Can I ask were you got the number of 95 % did you conduct the survey ?
No, but taking the p*ss as 95% of blue badge holders do is.
Gooner1976
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3:54pm Wed 29 Sep 10
porkpie wrote:This really didn't deserve a response but seriously, what a Pillock you really are! Parking in the 1 Mother and Baby parking space instead of the 30 empty Disabled spaces! For retards like you i will explain, it isn't the walking a little further with 6 month old twins and a shopping trolley that is the problem. Getting them and the shopping into the car safely is another matter! As you are obviously of very low intelligence i will also make this very clear, the main point here is the vast majority of people who have blue badges don't need them! If you got out a little more rather than spending your days leaving silly comments, you may see this for yourself!!!!
Gooner1976 wrote: Very rare i agree with certain people on here but 100% on this one! Any of the vast amount of disabled drivers doing a 4am shop would have been disgusted having to park in one of the 200 other empty disabled bays! If you want to touch the subject, better looking at the people using the disabled bays! How many are actually disabled? 1 in 50? My particular favourite, when my wife used to take our children shopping when babies, blue badge holders(mainly old duffers) used to park in the mother and baby bays whilst there was a whole line of empty disabled bays opposite!Being disabled is not a life style choice, having kids is.
Gooner1976
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4:10pm Wed 29 Sep 10
Unibod
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3:14pm Fri 1 Oct 10
geoffrey204 wrote:This ^^. If there are many disabled spaces when I shop late at night, then yes I park in one. They can stick a fine on my car, but there is no law that requires me too pay!
On a more serious note, "disabled bays" and "mother and baby bays" have no legal standing on private property, so anyone can park in them. "Disabled bays" on public roads are only enforceable if there is a pole with a sign adjacent to the bay. Those without legal signs are unenforceable, and merely a courtesy for a nearby disabled driver.
Excalibur says...
11:36am Mon 27 Sep 10
. Another idiotic and nonsensical story, a total waste of news space! Why are you giving time and space to these publicity seeking freaks, News Shopper?
So far we’ve had non-stories from a variety of weirdos about bugs in a lettuce, a child with a tiny scratch courtesy of a pigeon, a squirrel stuck in a drainpipe, people scared of foxes in their gardens, and now some freak who goes around car parks at night time photographing parked cars. In other words people who have no lives or just want some attention in their pathetic, empty lives. Tin foil hats on everyone!
Stop giving these attention seeking, publicity seeking idiots their 15 minutes. Get back to decent cutting edge journalism. The paper’s reputation is suffering – it’s turning into a sad joke.
STOP IT NEWSSHOPPER, NOW!