Strange Parking Rules

[Caran]

OH went out for an old rugby reunion. The pub they had lunch at made you put your car registration into a website at the bar or you would have to pay £100 fine.
This was not a city centre pub but one out in the countryside.
Is this a new trend?

[-SharonA-]

That landlord is having a laugh!!!

[Buenchico]

Do they offer accommodation? (It's fairly common with hotel chains).

[Caran]

No accommodation at all, just a local type pub.

[Caran]

Not even an. Adventurous menu, fish and chips, ham egg and chips etc.

[johnny.5]

it might bee a loop hole in the law to allow instant removal of traveller types

[Jackdaw33]

Never hear of this before. How odd.

[Buenchico]

I don't believe.

No pub has "fish and chips" on the menu these days.

However plenty offer "cod fillet, carefully hand-battered in our special beer batter, annointed with lemon juice, served with triple-cooked fries and crusty bread from a local craft bakery". (It's remarkably similar to "fish and chips" but three times the price!)

[Davemano]

If they made them put the registration into a website or face a fine, why did nobody ask for the reason behind it

[Jackdaw33]

LOL. My pet hate is the term 'pan-fried'. How do you fry something without a pan?

[Buenchico]

Much as I also hate the term 'pan-fried', Jack, the answer to your question is "on a griddle".

You're obviously too posh to visit burger vans or you would have known that ;-)

[Jackdaw33]

...and another thing, what is the alternative to being hand-battered?

[Malachite]

Looks like a dodgy "contract" to me, I hope you didn't sign up.
Parking scams are rife.

[Mamyalynne]

Being run over by a steam roller Jack - I think.

[gness]

Bit like the Aldi near our hospital.....two hour limit or a fine to stop folk using Aldi's free car park to avoid hospital car park charges?

[DarceyK123]

We have to do that at our local Medical Centre, it's just to stop people who are not going there from parking there as spaces are limited (so they say)

[Cloverjo]

I don't know about the parking rules, but 'pan-fried' means the food was cooked in a shallow pan with a minimal amount of oil. As opposed to 'fried' which could include deep fat frying.
Hope that's sorted :)

[Malachite]

...dont forget, folks: private clamping is now illegal.

[Jackdaw33]

I disagree. In that case why not say shallow-fried or deep-fried? Either way you'll need a pan or, as the poncy folk down Suffolk way would have it, a griddle, doncha know!

[Davemano]

This has strayed off track a bit. It is about a country pub and not like supermarket or health centre car parking.

[Buenchico]

>>> private clamping is now illegal

I know. It takes all the fun out of things!

One of the best parts of my job running a railway station was getting the money out of people who'd parked in the wrong place before I reached for the keys to unlock the wheel clamps ;-)

(If they got awkward about it I'd simply quote the railway bye-laws, under which unauthorised parking on railway property is an offence which can result in a criminal record and a £1000 fine. I told them that they were getting off light by just paying a civil penalty).