Copper Revenge!
I lived in a terrace street 4 miles outside Newcastle, we bought it 1997 as repossession for next to nowt. Victorian flats on narrow streets, you could only park on 1 side of the road with a permit (which they issued 4 times as many permits as there was spaces) House up both sides, all flats - as you can guess, lots of cars fighting for spaces. Anyway, Once all the spaces were filled we'd all bounce up the kerb on the opposite side, single yellow line yes - but we lived there, we had a permit and everyone did it. Occasionally, on a morning, we'd come out to see EVERY car with a parking ticket usually time stamped 5:30am or something daft. The not-so-busy boys in blue had been out early making some extra funds for the mayor of North Tyneside.

Fast forward 3 or 4 years, we're selling the flat. Some nice chap agrees to buy it. "Perfect buy-to-let" he tells me. He continues.. "I see parking is still rough, i'll tell you a funny story. I'm based at the local Police station, one morning we came up this street and ticketed every car - for a laugh as we were bored on night shift" he chuckled to himself, blissfully unaware that I might have been one of those residents with permits for our street - and infact I WAS!

Fast forward 6 months, he buys the flat, can't get any tenants and the housing market falls on it's arse. I'd sold it at the almost perfect time when it was at it's peak over-inflated value.

Small Victory? hell yes.
(TheManofScience, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 16:53, 13 replies)

So he was stung by the never before reported housing crash of 2001
Qotw lies again I see
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 17:35, closed)

at what point...
Did I say "precisely 4 years after 1997" ?

I/we bought it in 1997 then over the following years the street would 'occasionally' get tickets even up till the year i moved out. 'Occasionally' means more than once. I didn't even have to include dates TBH


Thanks for taking your time to point out unfunny, non-existent flaws. Another Cub Scout badge for your sleeve.
(TheManofScience, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 17:58, closed)

I'll admit I didn't exercise myself in taking any real interest in your tall tale, but the timeframe of 1997 + 3/4 years comes across to the disinterested reader
you stupid fucking cunt
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 18:14, closed)

Easy, tiger.
You're talking to a tyneside property magnate. Over those timescales with a terraced house he could have made a profit of at least fifty or sixty pence.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 19:13, closed)

For goodness sake Rory, he said "fast forward 3 or 4 years".

Could quite easily have been the massive housing crash in 2000......
(jono_h, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 19:50, closed)

Ohh Swearing!
Is this cyber bullying? How quaint and unexpected on the internet!
(TheManofScience, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 9:49, closed)

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Wed 16 Feb 2011, 20:49, closed)

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( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 22:09, closed)

In fairness
he said he bought the flat in 97. The fast forward was from some point after the ticketing incidents rather than the time he specified as having bought the house.
(gherkinator, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 22:56, closed)

ahhhhhh
I see someone has already alluded to this and made excellent use of a diagram.
(gherkinator, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 22:58, closed)

I would call it a pyrrhic victory personally. But I don't have a diagram to illustrate my point.
(hairybuddha, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 23:52, closed)

I might make a joke about a phallic victory, but I'd rather not as the diagram is a bit distasteful..
(mr ruffles, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 9:03, closed)

Is it
a bell end curve?
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 12:21, closed)