Council CuntsStallion Explosion writes "I was in a record shop in Melbourne, flicking through the vinyl, when I found a record entitled 'Hackney Council Are A Bunch Of Cunts'"
We agree.
Have you been trapped in the relentless petty minded bureaucracy of your local council?
Why does it require 3 forms of ID to get a parking permit when the car in question is busy receiving a parking ticket right outside the parking office?
Or do you work for Hackney Council?
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chthonic, Thu 26 Jul 2007, 10:51)
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Dig those utilities....I mentioned in another reply that my folks had a house built for them a while back, this was at the end of a small cul-de-sac.
As the house was on unused land there were no utilities to the plot and in turn they had to be supplied.
SO, electricity supplier turn up. Dig a trench for 50ft up the road, takes them about 5 days. Then they fill it in, tarmac it and are done.
A week later British Telecom come out, decide due to a corner they cannot string the phone cable from another house or put in a telegraph pole. So they dig another trench up the road, sometime overlapping the one dug by the electric company. Again a week later they're done and tarmac it and away they go.
Later still the water company decide they need to connect up the drains built into the new house and connect the water. Evidently the old Victorian cast iron one wasn't up to the job of one more family of turds flushing down it, so they too dig up the road!
Luckily we were not bothering with gas, however by now the road was looking somewhat battered. Not in the best condition to start with it now had 3 different bodge jobs by lowest quote contractors and a series of tarmac snakes up and down the road.
Que the council coming along and literally saying "OMG! This HAS to be resurfaced, we'll put it on the priority road surfacing list".
Now that is interesting, as it turns out the money is allocated kind of by postcode or grid square of the town. Sadly about 150m from the house is a main road with one way system on it that is the main route into Watford from Harrow and has railway bridge/station etc etc.
Turns out that whenever they have money to spend in "our" gridsquare they go "Right, what roads are the priority here then? Ah, the main one way system has been torn up by buses for another year, lets resurface that first". Then the road budget is all gone and our road doesn't get done. You just can't argue with a council that will resurface the same piece of road EVERY year but leave another one indefinately....
After 15 years mum & dad moved out last year, the road still hadn't been resurfaced. It has however had 15 years to develop some more pot holes and of course by now the gas board have attacked it too for one of the neighbours!
(, Fri 27 Jul 2007, 11:49, Reply)
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