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It feels like it's the vibe done it coming into Sowoll into sy in summer, coming into summer.

But boy, it's good anyway.

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I'll be here till midnight tonight, so feel free to join me throughout the next three hours fifty two minutes.

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So you have Friday Free for a free for all, non curated talk.

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Welcome.

My name is Marcus hadl twelve o'clock tonight.

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Keep those texts coming nine two nine two if you want to email Marcus at newstalk ZB dot co dot m Z, anything else you want to talk about left to say, I'll tell what I wouldn't mind starting about tonight A parking tickets.

I was reading in the Wakato Times about someone that went to a concert.

Right they went to see the Hamilton Gospel Choir, an excellent two hour concert put on by the Hamilton Gospel Choir at Clarence Street Theater.

There were no empty parking spaces on Clarence Street itself, so I drove to the Peck and Save car park and parked outside the designated costume hire shop attached to the back of the theater.

What day are the weeks is?

What day of the week is?

September fourteen, Saturday night, two weeks tota.

I was a parking fine for eighty five dollars for exceeding the two hour free parking limit by sixty by sixteen minutes.

I appealed to the Auckland based company Smart Compliant Management issue the fine studying I parked outside the costume hire shop and not in the general pack and savi area, but they wouldn't accept this and increase the fine to one hundred and five for late payment.

I also spoke to Pack and Save Stavers who they make no money from these fines.

It was on their hands.

Not very good pr especially since all of Hamilton's CBD has free parking on Sundays.

I imagine concert nights at the theater are windfall for Smart Compliance Management, raking in many thousands of dollars for each two hour concert.

Robin Boom Hamilton.

So what do you want to say about that?

I mean, it's always sketchy when you use Pack and Save car parks to go somewhere else.

What I'd do is buy Kitcat.

But if you've experiences, particularly in Hamilton, or got some tale of parking woe, that you want to It was a Sunday, the fourteenth, so there we go.

Was a Sunday and every all parking is free in Hamilton.

Goodness.

You might want to comment on that.

I want it to Marcus, welcome.

Today, Marcus, Hey, I want to put a question out there to anybody listening, anybody in the know, why we've got a I'm a sports fan and I like the cricket, and I don't like the twenty twenty but I do suffer it.

But why we've got a team touring and we have international cricket on a Wednesday and Thursday late at night at seven o'clock at night, and then we have nothing in the weekends, and then again we have Sunday and Monday.

I'd just like to know what the theory is behind that sort of timing for kids and family to go and watch the cricket Eden Park or Lenk or whatever.

Ohen where d news?

Yep, there was no one there.

I know, too late.

So but who does this?

Well, why aren't we Who does this?

I want to know who does this?

Where are we to come from?

I think it started late because it's on TV one and they have to get the news out of the way.

Oh god, that's that's terrific.

Yeah, absolutely, it's about quarters to eleven o'clock at night for sure.

Or from Canterbury or like me in the country, you're going to get home at midnight and you've got a kid with your you ain't going you ain't going to happen.

You want somebody.

Where are you?

You sound sensible?

Where are you Commandarfield?

Of course you are, okay?

Is it late?

Is it?

Are there two matches Friday?

Well, of course Sunday is the week you just said there's nothing in the weekend.

But Sunday is the weekend, Sunday night, night night.

Yeah, so nothing, we got nothing?

Is it Lancaster Park or Hegley Park?

No, excuse me, Nelson, it's it's here, and it's Sunday and Monday.

We've got two games Sunday Monday.

Well, what's going on?

What's said about it?

Is in the afternoon though?

Yeah, oh well that might make up for the other five days.

But that was a good things last night, but it was far too late.

There's no one there.

Absolutely absolutely, Dear Foy, take your kids to the game.

No way, you're not taking your kids of the game.

You don't.

Cricket need to kick up the ass, mate and refocus on what they're doing, you know.

Good on ye and straight shooter, I'm liking that shoot straight out on.

My name is Marcus Welkome.

What have you got parking?

Who's got some parking tickets tee that they've got some wraught on.

I like those like who's going to pack and say?

And then gone to a concert?

And what if you stayed two hours but you actually bought something from Peck and save?

And what about charging people on a Sunday at Peck and say?

This is Hamilton.

I think Hamilton's quite bad for parking text if you've got them nine to nine.

If there's other stuff that's happening in your world, let us know, might be some good fireworks tonight people have saved them over a but that's fine.

No one's got work in the morning.

You'll be right.

I got an eighty five dollars fine and a car park for been six minutes late.

I've been at a school concert at the Michael Fowler said on the concert round a few minutes.

Then it's Meldon with another text, but thank you?

What a shame.

The best show on TV, The One Percent Club or Unique Dusty Exhibition of Ousie Human Sextual Tests, has been pushed aside to enable the garbage currently on TV three to screen see people are clearly handling everything well tonight, aren't they?

What have you got parking and the cricket, anything else you've got to gripe about, although Friday is not really gripe.

Note, I'd love to hear from you, oh eight hundred.

You know the rest mark is till twelve cheapest.

She's all on people.

Get in touch.

Whatever you got, We're up for you.

You might have some interesting breaking news where you are tonight.

There might be some interesting things that are happening.

I'd love to hear you talk about that.

No new measle cases today.

That's a good news story, by the way too, with the black Caps and the Windys.

It's one one so it's tired, so at least it's interesting.

I'm excited about that, just putting that out there.

But oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine nine to detext if you want to get involved, I want to talk about car parking and parking tickets.

If you've been unfairly pinged, Where was that?

How was that?

Because what happens it seems like it's hard to get any redress.

That woman complain they're up to charge seems almost trumpion with a negotiation like that.

There'll be other stuff happening night Monday night through fifty years since the recor of the Edmund Fitzgerald when the November Wins came early.

Get Chigumi so well, we played that song centirety on Monday, maybe even twice.

But back at your Headle twelve.

By name is Marcus Welcome?

What do you got to give it your best shot?

Eight hundred and eighty.

I want to talk parking.

I've never talked car parking.

I never get tickets.

Why is that they never stopped for long enough?

Evening, Greg?

This is Marcus welcome.

Yeah, morning, Sorry evening Marcus.

Always a good start in morning, Greg.

A couple of things just on.

I just want to ever quit morning.

First, pogon at the parking.

About the the the they're showing on TV on Prime on Saturday.

They're showing the woman's Phoenix game.

And I've had no problem with women's sport at all, but they're not showing any of the Warnington versus Auckland Derby, which is what I mean.

You can get it on Sky, but they've got Sky and so none of the country see the derby, which I'm sure everyone would rather see than the women's game.

I hope they didn't come across as sex us.

There's a bit to unpicked there.

I don't know what the answer is.

I guess, I guess, I guess.

Sky have paid big money for the rights to the football and it's a big thing.

So yeah, whereas with women's they're trying to build it up and kind of get the followings going for it.

There'll be my understanding.

Oh you'll enjoy that, Greg, you'll enjoy the women's Phoenix.

Oh they showed them the last last year they showed the did they the year the local derbies?

You sure they're Yeah.

I watched both games because I'm steering on them, steering on Warrington and I'm not actually really a soccer persons there.

You watch both games.

You watch both both games because you want.

You know, I was annoyed because Wellington lost for both of them.

Okay, okay again, yeah Greg, thanks, we'll look at that.

Eighteen past day.

Hold your horses, people be with you soon.

Yes, powers out and messy they're on it, by the way, from two minutes to go.

Keep you updated with that.

We've got reconnection times, Dug.

It's Marcus.

Good evening, Oh, good evening, Marcus.

I live on the Cavity coast and I sent a birthday card to my granddaughter who lives in Wellington, and it took three weeks and two days to get to her.

Now, I was talking to another friend of mine and she sent a birthday card to her son from the Cavity Coast to Hamilton and it took nine weeks to get that card.

There's obviously something wrong with the Postick.

What did you say granddaughter?

Was she in Wellington?

Did you say, yeah, my granddaughter.

Yeah, from Cavity Coast to Gondala in Wellington.

Three weeks and two days to get No.

One's that organized to get birthdays at far in advance.

That's crazy.

Yeah.

Well I did send it that and and it arrived after a birthday, of course, but I thought at least two weeks beforehand would be all right.

I could have walked there in the time.

You could have been You could have, but you could You could have done slower things than walked.

You could have crawled or been one of those moon bouncers.

That's a long time, Doug.

That's mental, I reckon it is.

Yeah.

I think nowadays I think people just send things by courier because it arrives much much quicker.

Is there a male depot where you are on the carpety coast or something else going on.

No, we go to paper Plus and it's a post shop.

I wondered they're sitting into Parmestan to be sorted there or some crazy go round.

Well, I think so, but you know the I like to try and get it to them in the mail because it's it's nicer, the kids looking forward to it, and it doesn't arrive and you think, well, it.

Doesn't give you much confidence for next time, does it.

No, it doesn't, it doesn't.

Marcus.

No, I'm sorry to hear that, Doug.

Peter Marcus welcome.

Yeah, Peter, he ring remember tell that person that they've got their ticket to take you to the council and slept on the me's desk.

He's a man that God didn't said packing was going to get cheaper.

He cam backed on it.

It's a good point, although it was in the private space of Peck and save.

Of the cap back where she will pack and over its.

Three hundred and eve undredth day.

Okay, and appreciate that, Peter, Thank you.

Calvin Govinda Marcus welcome.

Yeah, Marc.

You've got a great memory for an old duggery.

Anyway, good on your Marcus from memory.

My name, my Indian name.

Hey, if I've got time, very briefly as an outro on it to tell you briefly about a movie Saw Tuesday, but with us parking.

I lived just a few houses along when I was a teenager in Clarence Street.

Cross road was the Hamilton gas works.

Up the road was the Hamilton Courthouse.

Two beautiful tars heel hill slopes for out steel wheel trolleys to crash down.

But that car park we're packing saviors.

Now, I wait a few times on the jury thew on courthouse, and on the bottom of the letter it said that you could legitimately park in the car park if you're going to the court jury.

Yeah, it had a especially written on it that you could use the car park if you're on the jury.

So that was all okay.

But that that Pack and Save, Yeah, that's between the courthouse and the Hamilton Lake Lake Road row right, yeah, yeah, anyway, so that's all I can say about the park.

I just got to look up Pack and Save Hamilton because I did not know the lake was.

It was right next so the lake it's kind of invisible.

That Lake sometimes when you're there.

Oh yeah, look at there there you go, well, look at that.

Well there's a hill there, yah, hills, a hillside with a bigger water thing, getting new one going to be built beside the is one.

Where have they been seeing the choir?

Where have that been at?

Oh?

The on Clarence Street, on the on the flat hill, on the flat land part of Clarence Street.

It goes up about halfway up Clarence Street.

Let's called them, not the Medial theater, the Clarence Street theater.

Copy that I understand, Yeah, Clarence Street.

Looking at it anyway, Yeah, it's good.

I've been a couple of times that theater and that anyway.

The movie I saw Tuesday, I thought I'd go along just for historical purposes, to see how it was, you know, and all the people who were here and there and hither and thither around at the time.

In the movie.

It was a documentary all about Dame Leslie Lawson.

Is that name ring a belle with you?

Yes, I'll tell her her real name, Twiggy, Oh yeah, goodness, And I thought, oh yeah, twigger, yeah, slim, skinny, blond with googly eyes.

Not much more.

I have to know about her.

But in the documentary I would thoroughly recommend to be one of the best movies I've seen this year.

And she can not only does she look good as a model you know from those days, but she can dance proper dancing, not holding hands and looking at each other, dancing properly and singing a fantastic singing voice for music if you like that.

And even showed her live singing with Bing Crosby live doing a record, and he always used to do his singing right through the record, no stopping and redoing it, and this and that and the other thing.

So it shows who but in the documentary it shows Marilyn Monroe and David Bowie and all sorts of people.

It was absolutely fantastic and it's sort of finishing now, but there is coming on.

General release, so it's some sort of festival there.

Calvenator.

Yeah, I think it may have been on well now, it was on the what is it called here?

I got the book about it, the British and.

Film for a Year.

That's a bit of a from the Bretze and they bring those out, don't they.

Yeah, But supposedly the jerker Nigel and manager there.

He knows me.

Everyone knows me, and the tron here he said, you'd probably get it back.

Again and Joy needs to Yeah, you should.

You should be on the post of saying Kelvin's is it one of the best documentaries of the year.

Yeah, if ever you want to send me any money, which I don't need, Marcus, But if ever you want to send me any money, just put an ENVELOAB addresser to Calvin or the tron.

You're ready to get to you.

Oh, yeah, it'll get to me.

Yeah, I might tested did you see Pike River?

No, but I read all the headlines at the time when it all happened.

I know how to end it.

It's still going on ongoing.

I think it's a Kelvin.

I think it's a film you'd appreciate.

Yeah, well sort of.

Yeah, I probably definitely more us.

You know, we'll see it.

It's a it's a crime scene, isn't it.

Yeah it is.

Yeah, they're still investigating it.

That's right, that's right.

But look, i'm modern mind seeing twigging himself.

So because there'll be some good old footage of super eight film footage and stuff.

Nice colors would be good, good looking stuff.

Nice to hear from your Calvin.

I to keep it going through if you want to talk.

Here'll twelve eight hundred and eighty to Peter Marcus.

Welcome, Yeah today, Yeah, Vegas.

The that's quite appropriate.

I've got to talk about slow mail delivery.

And now when the Calvin from the tron when he's hit just yeah postem.

Well, I'm not sure when he'll get it.

No, it's a very good point.

It's a very good point.

Yeah.

Now my thing is I'm a new Plumouth.

Now I don't seem to have a problem with New Zealand Post.

But the other crowd, which is that d Excel, they do the mail deliveries too.

It's taking forever to deliver any mail, Like like my last power bill, I got it.

It was due to be paid on the tenth of the month and I got it delivered from that crowd on the seventeenth.

Wow.

Nice to talk to you, Peter.

Thanks so much for that.

Parking, parking, parking.

And Twiggy.

Did I know Twiggy was a singer?

I don't think that I did.

She did movies, she's in the Blues Brothers.

Yep, that's a fact.

I didn't know.

She sung, But yeah, I mean that's a big praise from Calvin about that.

Be in touch if you've got anything to air.

Dave Marcus welcome.

How much did in the Cargo City council refund all those parking tickets was a two hundred and thousand and what happened.

With that someone?

Was it illegal?

As someone sort of they.

Went illegal, so the bye law wasn't correctly, so therefore technically the tickets weren't correct so therefore they refunded them all.

Did only just gone from that old system with the old parking meters which I liked, and to that system.

So yeah, that's interesting.

In September twenty two, I drove into Auckland to have lunch for the colleague.

September twenty two.

Yep, yeah, twenty twenty two.

I was having a chill day.

I saw a parking spot.

I parked in the parking spot.

I looked around whereas the meter, can't find a meter, can't see any signs, go and have my lunch.

Then I get a parking ticket, so I write in how do I know I've got to pay the parking?

So I go roaring in there and I take all the photographs all the way around, not a single parking sign inside, and Auckland Transports say, no, you're getting the ticket still forty dollars.

We're going to prosecute you.

Now.

Back then, I don't know.

I just one step at a time.

So it took two year years and then in May twenty four they withdrew the ticket.

Why did you take photos?

Did you go backprove?

Did you go?

I can't understand yeap copy that.

So on the day I parked, then I got the ticket and I went what So I went back and this is like ten days later, took all the photographs standing in the spot to show I wasn't lying.

They said, no, we're going to prosecute you.

Anyway.

I did a Google search on it this year and a journalist for Consumer New Zealand had exactly the same thing.

So he wrote an article going, how come I parked in a marked parking spot there's not a single parking sign inside, yet I get a parking ticket.

So I emailed him what happened with that ticket?

He said, I just paid it.

Where was the spot you parked?

Dave Ponsonby Road, right in the middle of Ponsonby Road, whereabouts one three seven is outside a fruit and veggie market or something.

In the middle Barner brothers, is it?

No, I don't know the area I'm from, essentially out of town.

Oh g your country bumpkin up on the big smoke.

What were you there for?

Yeah, well, pocka Coey Pokaey of Auckland.

We we would take a pack, lunch and a passport when we go into the city.

Yeah, yeah, be terrified, don't know what's going to happen.

Well, I was a bit unhappy about Auckland Transport not really following the law like in the Cargo City Council.

So I brought a claim against Auckland Transport for militia's prosecution.

Great, and that's coming up in March.

Now, do you want to know a heck how to get off the pack and safe ticket?

Yes?

Please, because you sound and you sound like you're not a not what a bush lawyer?

But yeah, anyway, yes bush lawyer.

So the the parking in private land works on contract, whereas parking on the road is regulation.

You know.

So so everyone's not allowed to speed because you're on the road.

But as soon as you go into a fish and chip shop or a pack and save you're in private land.

So they put a sign at the entry going, if you come into this land, you agree to pay the parking or not to overstay more than an hour, and if you breach it, you agree to whatever penalty we choose to send you.

And that's the contract between you and the parking enforcement.

Sure, but that the right who is the driver?

Big part the counsel that the private parking company with the contract doesn't have the right to ask the registered owner who was the driver.

So if you park on a public road, they give the ticket to the registered owner and the registered owner's got to pay unless the registered owner says I wasn't driving, it was my wife driving, and then she's.

Got to pay.

But in the Pack and Save they've got no right.

So the hack is the registered owner of I was driving that day and I'm not part party of your contract, so I don't have to pay the phone Okay, I'm not sure if I got that fundamental enough.

What's the difference the your phone was glitching about?

What's the difference between packing on the street with a council ticket and a ticket for peck and Save?

Why can one on?

Yeah, on, everyone who's in a public space, walking on the footpath, driving on the road is subject to New Zealand laws.

And if there is a law that says you can't park there and you do, you get a ticket.

If you want to defend it or argue it, all the councils, all the police have the right to ask who was the driver at the time, because they can formally ask the registered owner.

But the legal thing has got that you have to answer honestly.

Yeah, And the pack and say haven't got the rights to ask that.

Yeah, And so the hackers, I'm not pro I'm not party to your contract.

So whoever the driver was that drove into the car park in your car, they're party to the contract because the sign said if you enter this parking area you're bound by our contract.

And they can't prove who the driver was.

Does it worked for you.

I've never done it because I wouldn't get packing tickets like you, Marcus.

I haven't got a parking ticket.

This is a person in Hamilton.

This is not me.

No, no like you you.

Okay, yeah, to be two sensitive.

No, I'm not in the habit of getting parking tickets.

So on the day my way and I tried to pay the but there was not a meter in sight.

And I now know they've got these things called paid parking areas that go for several kilometers blah blah blah.

But no, no, I fully intended to pay my way.

I didn't want any trouble.

Good stuff, Dave, thanks so much for that.

Twenty three away from nine.

This is Todd Marcus.

Welcome, Okay Marcus, New Plymouth.

I was parking it was Father's Day.

Went into town to pick up some takeaway.

My wife was in the passion steat.

Went into this car park, which is smart compliance.

Now they are private parking sharks.

When this alleyway that goes through a private car park that kind of links around, dropped their off so she could go in and get the takeaway.

They were really busy.

Took ten minutes, so I was parked atually wasn't in the car park.

I was in the alleyway waiting in the driveway.

Didn't think much about it.

Came along two weeks later, got a parking ticket for being in the park for thirteen minutes.

Because they had the cameras when you go in and then the cameras when you go out.

So I went okay, I'll play you at your own game, because it's all probably AI driven drop the ticket into AI asked him to write a legal response and explain my position where I was, where I actually wasn't in the car park.

I was just parked in the alleyway.

And they came back and just said no, when you entered the car park, you enter into their contract and therefore you will had no right to be there.

So you still had to pay you eighty five bucks, and if you didn't pay it within the twenty one days, then they made it one hundred and five bucks.

So just yeah, the smart compliance had those private car parks all over the place.

They just a bunch of ripoffs.

So it's the same company that the letter for it was from.

And where was the where's the takeaway?

Just so I could look at it?

Whereabouts New Plymouth?

Is it?

It's off Devon Street, it was, Oh, it's just there was something like fifty six Devons Street West, which is cafe to you, good family favorite, and it's only got like about eight car parks around the back, and it's it comes off you enter it off Brown Street and you come back around onto Devon Street.

I can see why it's called Cafe two Cooise.

Yeah, we must be bad for so you you came in from Devon Street, did you No?

I came in from Bryn Street, the coming Brown Street and you come around down around the corner.

It's right next to the old.

Mayfair Theater, which is I was calling an old theater there.

You go in there, yep.

Yeah, And I was parked in the driveway and like, I just sat there and it took a while and then got the sicket.

But they said no, and they send me a little you send a smart compliance sending these little pictures of your bumper going in and I'll get number plate when you go out.

And it's just like but when I when I wrote the letter back, they even send me a response on an email and it said, I know we've got all these signs, you know, and these the signs that you enter into the contract and all this stuff.

It's just I just paid for one and let you move on.

I like the whole idea of the MAI.

I thought that was good, Tod.

I thought you're gonna have a good outcome there.

But thank you.

Seventeen to nine Steve Marcus, welcome.

Thing, Marcus.

How you doing good, Steve.

I'm going to completely agree with my fellow Pooka ky resident Dave.

From a couple of calls back, all the smart so about parking seem to be coming out of pooker Kelly.

That'll be because we have a really really rogue car park in Pooka Keey, and I'm sure anyone in Pooker Kee listening as I mentioned the Columbus Coffee car park will definitely agree with me.

It's also run by the same parking company as your previous caller there Fuddly but car parking one oh one, And I know this has been mentioned on your show relating to other aspects as well.

The preemptive strike to get rid of this is to go to Land Transport and opt out of the registry so that your name and your car park and your yoursent sorry, your name and your registration plates are no longer public domain because they, as Dave said, the regulatory side of this, which is Land Transport, they can access it and the police can access it all your details from your number plate because they are legal, they are law, they are part.

Of the government.

But all of these private car parking contractors, if they don't know if they can get your number plate, but they can't find who you are, they can't send you anything.

So if you had no very well that you have opted out on land Transport's website, and you get a ticket on your car, you can quite happily take that ticket and throw it in the bin because they're never going to be able to find you and you're never going to get a reminder.

I'm seeing the big site on Columbus now at the front of there.

Hey, what grounds can you get?

Go top secret?

You don't need any Basically, it's your own personal wish to have your car or your name registered on the public register or not.

So you go to land Transport's website and you can opt out.

You can do six vehicles at a time.

If you've got multiple cars, you just put the number plates in there.

You have your license ready to prove it to you.

You turn around and opt out.

That means that private contractors can now no longer access the information from the database, so they put your number plate in and they can't find you.

So therefore you've only ever had the ticket on your car.

They can't send you a reminder, they can't pursue you.

They can't chase you and if that's the preempt to strike of course, and the other one, I've personally been caught at the McDonald's and Nelson Whiles still on holiday down there, I had a rental car.

Rental car company sent me a ticket and said, oh, you've got a ticket while you were down here.

I sent them a lovely little letter and they did have me on record parking for seventy minutes rather than the sixty minutes.

I most definitely was a McDonald's client, and I sent them a copy of my screenshott at bank statement showing me at McDonald's on that particular day, and the ticket disappeared.

They turned around and acknowledged that they weren't there to persecute clients of that they were employed by, and that would be the way to get rid of the pack and save one in Hamilton as well.

What was it if you visited?

They didn't.

They didn't.

They went to a concert.

Why does that, for sise exists that you can actually go on the download with your tickets, that with your license?

Why does that exist?

Don't know why it exists, okay, but it definitely does.

Steve clear concise, Thank you what we want Ford in to nine, Hold your horses with you soon twelve to nine.

Hello Helen, Oh.

Yeah, brilliant.

Last call.

You know, this happened quite a few years ago.

Sorry.

I needed some urgent, urgent cattle cattle tags delivered to me.

I was going to go into dark They came to the Rights and Rights and Store in dark Ball and I rang.

They rang me and said that they've arrived.

So I said, I will come in and get them, and he said, oh, don't worry, I'll send them out on the on the r D and you'll should get them tomorrow.

Anyway, ten days later, they still hadn't turned up, and I wondering, what the hell's going on with these tags?

And I'm thinking, well, they must have been stolen.

But anyway, what I learned was that the the Dargaville rule delivery that that they've got they'd closed down the mail sort at Dargaville.

This is what I was told.

And so what what happened was that the tags then got posts, they booked, they posted them at Dargaville, and they went down to Palmston, north of wherever they were, and then they went back to Dargabill and came out on the r D and anyway, so since then they also abolished the mail sorting at fanga Ay.

And so I've been told what happens now that the posting to just the rural delivery drives to Waipu at five o'clock in the morning and sorts it all out and comes drives back to Northland and delivers the mail.

So it's been going on quite a long time.

I've been cutting, gradually cutting, cutting all these centers about you know, first of all, is dark bulb in Frinday.

There's clearly no mail.

There's no money in mail though, is there?

It's all in curious there's no money in the other.

But that's what happened to me.

And it was quite a few years ago.

And yeah, interesting, thanks for.

That, Helen.

Seven away from nine back up, hold your horses, Mark with your soon hit till twelve nine o'clock news not far away.

It's eight to nine.

Hello Mark, this is Marcus Welcome.

Yeah, hi mircaust.

I got a ticure parking tict pack and say Clarence Street on the tenth of October.

So Clarence Street.

Has got quite a number of small.

Medical clinics.

Up up the street, up the hill.

And I had to I had to have a small procedure done, which was supposed to take about an hour, and then after that we decided with park at Pack and Save and then do our shopping.

So I parked there and I parked quite around the corner which was away from the main entrance, and went and had this medical procedure which ended up taking about two and a half hours, and then after that we went into our shopping at Pack and Shave and Clarence Street and that was fine.

And then about ten days later got a I got a company vehicle.

So the company received a eighty dollars parking ticket in the mail.

So I thought, okay, so there was an appeal, an appeal you could email too, So I sent them an email and I said, look, I'm I'm not disputing the time that I took, but I did, and I said, I did have a small medical procedure which took a lot longer than it was supposed to and afterwards I did do my shopping at Pack and Save.

So I sent in a screenshot of my credit card and which proved that I'd done my shopping that day.

And I said to that, look, I shop at Pack and Save every week, and I spend between two hundred and fifty and three hundred dollars a week, and that's about twelve to fourteen K a year.

And I said, it's probably a small fry in the grand scheme of things, but I said that may continue depending on the outcome of this appeal.

And the next day I actually got an email back and said, on this occasion, since you did do your shopping at pack and say, we'll waiver the fine.

Okay, So.

It does work sometimes.

Yeah.

Yeah, it sounds like the story of two Way.

It sounds dodges all get out.

Yeah.

Yeah, Well I made the point of saying that, you know, I shopped there every week, and I spend x amount a week, and which adds up to this amount a year, and that may continue.

So maybe that was the catalyst that swung.

But yeah, it was a good outcome in the hich.

Doesn't look like it doesn't like a workst Well for peck and Saved, I guess I don't want people taking the mickey just using their pack.

Well, well, the parking is one hundred and twenty minutes two hours in the procedure, I had was only supposed to take an hour, and I thought, oh, well that's fine, we've got plenty of time.

But it took it longer than it was supposed to.

So yeah, it was a good outcome in the inso yeah, sometimes it does.

With appreciate that mark.

Thank you, Kenn.

It's Marcus, welcome, Hi King.

Oh I'm going to query in theory if you're starting the car in a parking spot, you're not really parked.

No, you're not.

You're not you're not packed, You've just stopped exactly.

So therefore, so how would one get on.

Well, they've got these cars now, with all these cameras on the route.

They drive down the road and get your number plate, but they're not going to know if you're sitting in the car or they're not, so then they give you a ticket, and then how are you going to prove that you were.

You were in the car.

I don't know the answer this unless that's assumption that most people make that you can't get a ticket if you're in the car, But maybe you can.

Yeah, I don't know.

I take people with a modical the appointments and sometimes I park outside in the road up the road from middlemore.

That's for an.

Hour and just sitting in the car.

Of course of that camera that car came past.

He's ready to get my mother, like wouldn't they.

We'll seving five more about that after the news.

Can we are talking car parking?

That's right, Friday car parking.

It's gone good, long way this last back after the news with more having them a chance to get the texts being too busy, busy busy, Oh eight hundred eight.

If you want to come through nine to nine to text, here goes here to the end.

If you want to talk, that's what we're about tonight.

I'm be in touch if you want to be a part of it.

Yes, don't know much about card and break shafts, but to talk about those, don't really know what they are, but there are.

They're not safe CSB card and shaft parking breaks.

We are talking parking tickets, crazy reasons you've got parking tickets and great reasons you got off parking tickets.

Everyone likes to get off a parking ticket.

What's yours?

Let us know, oh, eight hundred eighty, ten eighty and nineteen nine two text if you got off one.

That's what we're about.

Tonight parking parking.

But I don't never hear this new crowd in town.

They sound they sound full on systems analysis or whatever they're called.

Terrible.

Oh well, a lot of texts about this, A lot of texts jumping.

If you want to talk, he tell twelve oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two nine two to text be good to hear from you.

Caller is out of date.

Even if you revoke authority for third parties to access information on LTSA governor has caved and allowed Wilsons and Smart Parking access to info under the China Free Trade Agreement.

Marcus that information, but opting out of the motor vehicle register is not correct.

You should read this link as parking companies can still get information.

Often say.

The first casualty of talkback is the truth.

People make stuff up.

Marcus.

I live in Pukakhi and I have got ticket in Columbus coffee car parks so annoying.

Marcus.

I went to a concert Western Springs back in the nineties and parked on the medium of Saint Luke's Road.

Rulled the cars that we ticket for parking.

I found a park and took the ticket from the car park beside me and put on my windscreen.

When I returned after the concert, the car I had taken the ticket from had another one.

I put the original ticket I had taken and put it back on the windscreen and drove home.

That's a good one.

Marcus Twiggy, released in Alvin seventy six, won an award Benny Winston's pricking up his ease for another vote winner for his base slow mail delivery.

Oh that's right in his base.

Many years ago, I got a fine and countdown supermarket car park for my car registration be out of date only by two weeks.

The ticket was issued by a district council warden.

I was not happy at all about my one fifty tickets, so I contacted the count and supermarket to see if it was a council and car park or owned by the supermarket.

It was owned by the supermarket or the council.

So I contacted the council about the ticket was issued in the car park private car park.

The council dropped the fine.

Warden's parking wardens have no right to issue tickets on private parking.

Herea is such a supermarket?

What's proper dancing waltz or tango Marcus.

All the mail is now sorted in Auckland after New Zealand Post closed down the one of two mail sorting facilities.

Love the show, Jason read the mail going astray, taking too long to be delivered?

Are they using the correct postcode?

Power cut?

Messy?

Thank you, get in touch on talk about all these topics.

All the lines now are free.

I've been waiting to get through and get on.

Let's hear from you.

There's other stuff, but this is good.

This is good stuff.

Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

Oh wait eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine to de text any news.

I'll bring that too.

But let's here, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go about this.

Yep ah, by the way, messy power cut.

If you want to know about that, a vehicle has hit a power pole or either equipment.

The power will be out until tomorrow morning.

How widespread is it down?

I'll just check.

Oh you'll know if you know.

But messy.

Okay, half half the suburb down to the morning padam decent check of the old dom Buck.

Interesting character parking tickets about tonight and getting off them.

Easy to get them, hard to get off them.

That's the kind of go around tonight.

Steffanie, this is Marcus.

Welcome.

I guess those handbrakes you were talking about just before the news, Yes, they can be a problem.

They work normally on the drow shaft, not on the wheels.

Oh yeah, so on the fen not a problem.

You're back on a hill and it's fading in so this it allows one wheel to spin cord and the other ones go backwards and will move down the hill.

Not good.

Okay, yep.

Are they on cars or are they on cars or trucks or both?

As far as I know, they are definitely on racks on some of the lighter ones and some machinery I believe.

But when they come into the country you are thirty odd years ago, they become a real problem because they were trucks backing on hills on grass and does take off down the hill because it's not locking the wheels, it's just locked the right shaft.

Okay, inside your different because of the ways its wonder spinfour.

And where you go.

So it's been a problem for while.

This is not a new problem.

Right, Yeah, it's not a new problem.

It's been around for a long time.

Nice to hear from you, Stephanie.

Thank you, Kate, This is Marcus.

Good evening.

Hi.

It's a different little topic on an angle, but my first one is New Zealand career Post.

I did it.

I bought a Karen Walker Neetclace, really beautiful and I got it.

I decided I'd get a career from you know.

It got cured from.

Hypoo post shops, two Albany Post shops that were safe at the counter.

It's a good guy.

It's got missing wow.

And in the missing of that, I found out that when you track it, which I tracked everything in Signature Post doesn't track your name.

So when it came to be a concern, a complaints department or whatever they call it an investigation team the guy that was on the name at this moment to look at the file and investigate Whypoo, investigate the courier guy, investigate Albany.

Pretty much, he didn't know my name, so when they scan it in and track it Signature Posts, they don't know my name.

They just I'm a number.

It's post.

I'm just a number.

We're all a number.

That's what I found out.

So the result of that was I asked for an OIA Privacy Act.

Can you please just give me the notes of what this guy did to investigate those three people, the.

Courier, the.

White poo and the young thing.

And three times I went to customer service and no one knew what the privacyet was.

No one knew anything, and pretty much, no one's done anything.

And Karen walking neckcliff, my beautiful necklace.

The girl has gone and my money's gone, and no I a respected under a pointy winess and professional and private.

Yet so why why why was the OIA request not honored?

I did it to test the waters of their professional standards of investigating.

How did a career, post signature, post career go missing?

And I wanted to see what he had done to investigate because I wanted to see his notes, that's all.

Because so they hadn't done anything.

No one came back to me, and I did it.

I've done it three times and no one's come back to me at all.

And then now New Zealand Post has sold us out.

I don't mean this, I'm not meaning anything racial.

I've sold the New Zealand to the Philippines.

So the Philippines told me, now the computer system has now changed, so they're in the Philippines so that they don't really know what to do either because they don't know about Privacy Act or Information OIA.

So with that, I'm just going to do one more, maybe in the next week or so, one more and really put it forward because I want to see what the investigated.

That that's all I want to do.

No, I don't want to stress about losing it.

What then, what I want to do is present it to New Zealand his CEO and stay to protect the New zealem post for a caurier for Christmas time, if my pastor went missing from ypoop, did you max different colored gift spot at the counter?

The New zealm career guy comes, drives up back, he doesn't scan it until band there's no pemis at the back, and there's no scanning that identifies his scan any of our passes into I said to these guys, the managers, both managers of white Wood and Albany, that is so irresponsible to actually allow someone that could be a non resident or a person that is uneducated, and that you don't see when you're in a job.

I'm not saying anyone has, but the risk factor of all of us, and I'm certain minus this is not an isolated cases systemics.

So right now I haven't.

Heard of anything.

Right now I'm going to do something.

The oria is all I'm doing.

I'm not worrying about these many clips.

It's the point that come Christmas, this has happened before.

And I bet if you've heard so many New Zealanders they have had.

What's the value of that?

What's the value of the necklace?

I don't know, Richally, I got it.

I got it on Marketplace to tell you, Richly the mession of back to Terra Walkham buy it.

I really wanted it some humanists and I love the girls.

I love your design.

And so the point is right now I want to see what they come back with and then I'm there presented to the see as you're going to post this behavior.

Good thanks Kate seventeen past nine, twenty past nine, Hitle twelve, jurremy good evening.

You good any market.

I'm bringing up about the Cardinal breakshop, but just quickly about the lady that lives on the phone about career.

Your caurier passes.

Number one.

It's not new zealing.

Caurier posts is his zealand couriers and the courier posts.

Okay yep.

To any company that carries good how and carries them under the kindy.

The carrier is good that and that person.

And if they lose your pastor was the title up to fifteen hundred dollars in contemplation?

No more so.

If you happen to send an item by caurier for twenty thousand dollars, then you don't ensure yourself and against listening, they'll pay you fifteen hundred to a sheet in time to fifteen hundred.

Dollars, right, okay.

And the handbrakes.

Handbrake yep.

Well known in the industry.

There's less and less.

Of them around because they're on older trucks.

It is the NZTA requirement that they are serviced every month.

And if there's a sticker on the window or on the camp in the camp somewhere on the vehicle to identify that it's the cart and shaft because they do roll away.

If you imagine your car at home and you keep pulling up the handbrake and it gets a little bit longer and a little bit longer.

When that does it that the last caller is right as the drive shaft can turn the truck and roll.

So it has to be serviced every month.

Direct by lawyer.

That cardon the handbrake has to be serviced every month, and it has Every truck has to have a label, insider.

I've got three of them in our fleet and we are by by the Rucerus.

We have had one roll away a long time ago.

I think clearly no one's making them anymore, is that right?

Yeah?

No, not my understanding of it.

No, no, you can't.

You can't even get you can't bring them in the company.

The dangerous to be honest, dangerous.

And whose services?

Who's got a service?

And that is that a mechanic that does it?

Yeah?

Yeah, yeah, local mechanics.

You know you know iak mechanic yet because obviously I guess what it does is prove you've got a service record to show you aren't doing it.

Rolls away Yeah, okay, I'm liking that, Jeremy, thank you gosh.

But a background noise there isn't it?

Parking tickets getting off them or the weird places you've got them.

That's kind of what the show is about so far.

Tonight, be in touch here till twelve if you want to be a part of it, Marcus till midnight, Come on, they us know what's happening.

Oh wait a tondred eighty ten eighty got a lot of parking stuff in it for good, very good, very good.

Anything else you want to mention, also, we can hand I can handle that.

You can handle that.

We can handle that.

But be in touch if you want to talk Marcus till twelve, I say, oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine nine two text anything different you want to mention, I'm up for it, and keep those texts.

Kate's call was largely inaudible.

I thought that if Kate brought a necklace from Marketplace, is she sure it was posted in the first place.

That's a good point.

That's pretty scammy, a scammy scale.

I've never put anything of Marketplace.

I've locked never if anything worth buying Marcus.

James Bond had the solution of parking fines with his revolving number plates.

Not if you get a James Bond mentioned so early on in the show.

Oh time for a breathe that was pretty full on talkback.

What all those calls and those breaks?

Wow, be a part of you want to be a part of it, as you hear.

I am here till twelve o'clock tonight, so i'd be nice to hear from you tonight if you want to be a part of it.

Oh, eight hundred eight eighty and nine two to text, mainly right about parking.

Other stuff's kind of been mentioned.

I can't remember what the other topics in there.

It's forgotten what it was.

But eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.

By the way, no complaints about fireworks.

That's a good thing.

Sometimes I do go to the weekend, but not the shear.

But yep, be in touch.

If you want to be any other breaking news, I'll bring that to you.

And it does say that the Headliner's safety campaign has called for a band on on put of vehicles with a card and the chef for that guys said that already happened.

Six people have died since twenty ten because of these breaks.

Yeah, it's kind of like a historic judgment from old facts.

Twenty five past nine and the way we go, Good evening, Carl, this is Marcus, welcome.

How are you Marcus?

Good, Carl, How are you Carl?

Ah?

Yeah, pretty good mate.

I'm just listening to your guys feedback and I'd just like to offer a little bit of a different point of view, right Okay, Now I've listened to you talk back over a certain amount of time, and the Queenstown things says, oh, well, you know, we pay the rates and the rest of it.

But what I will say, in the last ten years that I've traveled this country through working and stuff like that, it's like, once upon a time used to be a place where we could all go and park up and have a good time, spend the day on the beach.

And what I'm seeing now and in Papama and Queenstown and places like that around the country, the council land that used to be open to the public is now privately owned.

And where there used to be open parking for families to come down to the beach.

Now we look at Papama, now we look at now we look at various places around what was that one?

Oh you copy that?

Ye ye, yeah, yeah, you know what I mean.

Whereas there used to be the place that we could take a family and I'm using I'm going to use Papa mar as a example.

Well, there's about three times how many people in the Condemy's a lot more demand, isn't there.

Yeah, but there isn't the public access and it's I see it as once upon a time.

But you don't know, you don't want, you don't want your big beaches to be taken up with big high rise car parks.

It's it's a balancing act, isn't it.

No, it's a balance.

And what I'm getting at is, you know we used to be able to bring our kids, not because we you know, you cut to the chase and park up four or five probably ten places with limited parking and there is no parking until your four streets back.

And how do you take your kids to the beach when you've got a family and you have to park four streets back and walk fifteen The solution.

Car is not I mean you look at those Sydney beaches.

It's all got car parking and stuff like that, and it's always enforced.

You've got to be organized because you can't have huge car packs to the beach.

It doesn't work.

I'm getting okay.

I've also lived in the UK.

And I was down I went down to Bournemouth, which.

You break the town bregger.

Yeah, I went.

I went down to Bournemouth Beach, which was because you okay, and it was fifteen pounds.

I was actually ten pounds or fifteen minutes to park your car to be able to take your kids down to the beach.

Yep, you know.

And it's okay, I get it.

Resources facilities need to be maintained.

But the point I'm getting here is like, well, hang on, is this what used to be the Queen's chain where we all had access to it?

Is it now user pays?

Now I'm kind of I'm.

Going to move on from your car because it's kind of hard we're getting anything out of you.

Well, that's say use the pace.

Yeah oh yeah, so what about the rest of.

Us use the pays Queen's chain.

Off you go, thanks Carl.

I couldn't quite.

Yeah, I mean, what do you do at beaches?

It's going to be and hopefully if it's car park then people turn over a bit more.

But yeah, there's that, there's those places, huge demand.

There's North City beaches.

Look at the car parking.

That's why Kranella is the place to go because you get the train there perfect or Bondie be a part of it's going to be a part of the show.

Hittle towp o'clock tonight, looking forward to what you've got to say, Oh, eight hundred and eighty eight nineteen nine to the text, not much sport on tonight.

Nothing is anything on then, Julie Marcus, Welcome Marcus.

I don't think a lot of people realize how illegal it is to park your campra van or any vehicle on your grass Burm.

It's actually illegal to park there.

You'll go up the street and you'll see these people with all their fancy camper vans all parked outside their homes.

And also it's illegal to park more than when week on the roadside.

No goodness, did you not know that you actually.

You can't park outside your house for a week.

Yeah, even if you know, well, even if you own that birm for Burm, you're not allowed to use it as a permanent park spot to store your campra van.

And you're not allowed to store your car for longer than a week on the roadside.

And if you look, if you look that up on the Bibles, you'll find that, Yeah, the covenants on a lot of them places.

But people without garages and they've always got their cars packed on the side of the road.

They can park it on the side of the road, but if they take it on and off all the time, like you know, you go off to work, then you come back on brom.

If you go up some streets, you'll see people that have bought these big camper buses and they have them parked there all the time.

Only use them when they use them, you know, and the grass is growing underneath.

But it is illegal.

If you read it.

You read it, Marcus, how come you're into this well?

Because when I bought into the street that I live in, Okay, we had a big list of covenants and we were given these caveninants that you cannot leave your caravan or your campra van or anything on your grass berm, or you can't put a shed or anything on it.

And that's the covenant.

Now you'll see the lower parts of the streets now are filled up with all these jolly camper vans.

But the upper part of the street be snobbish now is all tidy or cut grass cut nice, and you know nothing there.

But you have to look if you read it up as to what the legality of parking on your berm is.

Appreciate that, Judy, thank you twenty seven to ten to ten to ten, Ah packing the nuanceers of parking.

It's packing Friday.

Yeah it all could have got creepy cars at drive around and give your tickets.

It's weird, isn't it.

Well?

I guess it frees the parking people from doing that job.

But that'd be a good job or a bad job.

The pens Oh wow, look at that, Ah texts a lot of them.

Plenty of fireworks going off on the beach in Gisbon that either signed OL or signed AI.

I work at them all.

I've got to park it forty five dollars because one space to the left of the staff park.

I appealed and they said I should have asked my boss for more detailed staff parking instructions.

We also do new zum post vide place of work and people never fill in the proper details and complain we are them to fill it in.

Absolutely fed up with fireworks still going strong for the sixth night.

Not bad for a town with high unemployment.

Bournemouth beach haa might even be a thing.

Bournemouth Beach ha ha ha.

What the hell is he on about?

There is so much parking the length of Papoma Beach.

It's a joke.

He's nuts four streets back.

He's delusional.

Why is Bournemouth beach funny?

Is that not even the thing?

Or it's called Bournemouth?

You're extorted before you set foot on Stuart Island?

Jeep is.

There's some self sent entitled Parker is out there?

I e.

Cal you seen him playing whales at the World Bowls up eight zero first set sky four.

Yes, as predicted.

There are more fireworks being set off tonight in why Holer than on Guy Fawkes night, Marcus.

Another thing people don't know is you can't park your car backwards when parking on the other side of the road.

That's right, you can't.

Vanessa had a ticket for that.

We don't really have parking wardens and bluff.

I don't know what that was about, Marcus.

So did vote from your top of little I tried looking online but got lost by forty something year old neighbor buy his old cars, do them up for drifting.

His latest purchase was a statesman today.

I overheard him saying he's cutting the shocks.

What does this do to the car chairs?

Marga Marcus.

I'm a heavy vehicle mechanic and owner and living me to bust with a card and shaft parking brake.

There is no legal requirement to service them every month, only they must be maintained as per the manufacturer's recommendation.

However, generally the rest of the callers and for tonight has been correct.

Mine has never let me down.

I regularly park it on a gradient, but if the road surface is lacking tractions such as grass, I chop the wheels.

Great show tonight, Thanks Tim.

I like the word chock.

Where does that come from?

What nextionality do you reckon?

That is chock?

Chock a widge or block for steadying a body the old French shock choque meaning block or log.

We've learned something twenty three away from from ten here till midnight.

My name is Marcus.

Good evening.

What about parking tickets?

Do you feel aggrieved?

What bad thing happened to you?

On?

People joining?

If you want to be in touch?

Hittle twelve evening, triffic, Good evening, Marcus, Welcome here you going good trip?

I got an interesting one.

I got a couple of years back.

I got a letter in the post saying that I owed eighty bucks for a parking fine, and.

I thought she it was for my daughter's car.

So I googled where the hang this camera was and it was at Mount Monu and it was behind the shops, and so I had a look behind the shops and it was a it was a message parlor.

So my daughter was overseas, so I said, hey, what's what's the deal.

You got this parking ticket around the back and she says, oh, mom said, I've got to get two jobs.

But actually she had actually just joking.

She actually parked around the back and ran around the front to get some stuff for a friend of hers, and then went back around the back, and they had these jolly cameras and there's nothing on the building saying oh, I don't park here, you get fined, but eighty bucks for just parked there for five minutes.

But it was quite a bit.

Of a joke actually, so I actually rung the I wrung the lady at the message parlor just for a bit of a giggle.

And yeah, she said, no, no, that's it's got nothing to do with us.

They just patrol that area.

But here's another crack up for you.

I was back in tearing again and I had a tandem trailer on.

So I decided that I'll had some motor bikes on the back, and I had to pull into a motorbike shop.

So there must have been about fifteen spare car parks.

I parallel parked along the took up two car parks.

And then I get another fine on the past for another eighty bucks.

And I was illegally parked and I wasn't parked between the lines, and I thought she I had a tandem trailer on.

I was like a park between the line to keep the trailer out on the road.

They'll be a bit.

Dangerous, wasn't it exactly?

But yeah, so there was.

A common sense one.

And then then my last one.

My son was over in terror again.

The terrant was a good place with these, you know, years you think you'd encourage people to go to town and park.

But he was had an appointment at four o'clock, left school about half past three and was sitting in his car and he got and I got another fine for eighty bucks, and I said, what happened?

Then he says, I put my coins in the money machine, So he was actually sitting in the car for fifteen minutes while the other car drove past.

Clicked him that he was still sitting there, and yeah, did he challenge that come back with it?

Yeah, I have.

I'm not sure what's happening on that one, but and Terran, I've adjusted the rules from ten minutes to twenty minutes leeway sort of on it flexi, but I was in the ten minutes sign so when I took them on it was changed to the twenty minutes.

So I'm not sure what's happening.

There is a meer moved to town yet, oh who would know why?

Of course the rain evening hike, Marcus, I thought you might be interested in.

We were heading through christ Church about lunchtime today, just after twelve o'clock, and the traffic just all came to a halt.

There was a car with the bonnet on fire, so flames were coming out of the bonnet up near where the windscreen is and they were clear flames, no smoke or anything, but obviously in a bad way.

And I wondered if it was the batteries that they now have, Oh yeah, for the cars that because you know our paper in the last week has been full of houses that have burnt down because someone's been recharging a scooter or using batteries in around the house that have caught fire.

And so I just thought must be, might be it caused a hell of an over hold up with traffic and things like everyone just stopped.

All the streets were jammed and it's a very busy time of the of the day.

Just off Ricketton Road at Ricketton.

So where are the batteries, because it was where are the batteries of electric carrot at the front of the back?

Yeah, mine, mine's underneath the bonnet exactly if you got lyric.

Yeah, I've got a hybrid.

But there's a small accilliary battery that's there that runs all the little radios and air conditioning and things like that.

And then there's the main battery, which is on mine.

It's about the middle of the car, the middle of the bonnet, but down deeper.

So yeah, what we're doing in town?

What we're doing in town when your Christmas shopping?

No, No, I was.

I was in a village bus.

We were heading across to lunch at Wegram and we're up at Redwood or Parkland's up on that side of town, so we're going right through the town to get over to Wigram.

Would you have lunch at.

A really wonderful restaurant called My Home?

Funny, I know it might have been a home, but it's right in the Wigram shopping center and the meal was just lovely.

So it's who was close to forty of us?

Wow, a really wonderful day.

But they don't see a car on fire very often.

Yeah, yeah, can imagine that all the talk on the bus, wouldn't it.

Yeah, well, nobody has far extinguishers or anything in them.

I noticed that a truck, a fairly big truck, had stopped just back from the car and was holding all the traffic up, nodding, letting them through or even close to the car.

So that was good of him, because you know, they're a lot of time these days.

Nice here from Lorraine Marcus.

The only change to the parking and audio in the last forty years if they created more parks on the roadside.

All other parks are still the same.

About fifty years ago, I was convicted of for having a vehicle on the side of the road, not for the bona fide purpose of travel.

It was there for just over a week.

Back at you.

Just for those in messy.

Your power will be out right until tomorrow morning.

So yeah, cars hit your substation, so it's going to be a while toll.

You'll fix their people, so you might be in for a long night.

Go enjoy the fireworks.

There'll be a solution twelve away from ten.

We are talking parking tickets, the ones you've got off, all the weird ones that you've got.

We're on about tonight to come through.

If you want to talk about that.

The number is you know the number of the numbers.

You know the number eight hundred and eighty, ten eighty anything else around that or anything else you want to mention tonight.

That would be great to hear from your people.

All in love to have your input tonight.

Marcus.

There was a car parked out front of us in the street for two months.

We didn't know whose it was.

One of the neighbors running the council.

Now there's a turnd on a parking fint on Elleslie.

Marcus, it's the good Home.

Try to look at where is it?

Because I've been to Wigram.

I tried to google Good Home Wigram and it showed me teps.

No surprise, is there?

Is there?

It's a funny old name for a suburb, isn't it.

It's Wigram, not Wigwam.

Oh sorry about the hack cup Wigram the good Home.

Oh yeah, looked like a guest rope pub or something fair ext on it's got Guestro pub.

I reckon if you're in a village that'st'd like a guestro pub.

One what she got?

Let's have a look at them menu, the Wigram one hundred, the one way Wigram Skies menu paid to a roast on a Friday for the village.

I'm pretty interested in this now.

Lunch menu Nashville Chicken Sandwich, Caesar salad, beef Nitzel, garlic, prawns, seafood chowder, steak, eggs and chips seems quite reasonably prized.

Actually, fish and chips twenty two bucks, buttered chicken carry twenty three and the pizzas are named after planes because it's the old base Harvard Course here spitfire, Hawker, Ryan, the Runway, TGH Mustang or Skyhawk ten nine away, nine away from ten, Hold your horses, people with you soon, Hello bullets, Marcus good evening.

Yeah, cured the Marcus just over a couple of years ago.

Also as I did a week job from a daughter and they gave me a nineteen ninety seven Toyota Cordeena which had been packed up there for a couple of years.

Nothing wrong with it, just needed the battery.

So I gave it to my cousin to get back road worthy for a warrant.

Now, he went down and registered it under a for because thirteen dollars for a month's registration.

And when the car was finally buck the scratch, I put it through for a warrant, got the warrant for this.

Now when I went I changed my personalized plates onto it, and when I went to register, it was under forty dollars, and I thought that's pretty good.

So it wasn't until I was talking to a mate and he told me that it's registered under the farm vehicle.

So I said, oh god, that's that's so.

Anyway, I got away with it for a year, reregistered it after a year of for some like forty five dollars, and about four or five months ago I had it parked and diopoy here and baking me day has got a ticket for two hundred and fifty dollars for having a vehicle under that registration and you know, like on the main street.

So I shot over to the post office reads it under its normal thing, cost me another one hundred and nine dollars or something, and then sat down and wrote a letter to the council, put a believer it a you know, made up story in there, saying that the only time it was in town was when I ordered them to get serviced, and that I couldn't get an appointment for a service or or on a fitness out in the country where where it was supposed to be.

And three weeks later I got a letter say that the white fine, but now I've got it under reads, under the pro under the proper scheme.

So I got away with it for a couple of years.

It wasn't my intention to, you know, to rip them off, but I thought, well, you know, I've got away with for two years.

I was quite happy.

So yeah, so they're not all councs are not all bad.

No, that's a good story.

But like all of that.

Thank you, Hello, Dave, I'll get you in before the news.

It's Marcus.

Welcome him, Margus.

I just give it to give you an update.

I've got nothing on cards and some of that, But you did say talk about anything team close.

I'm doing a show that tomorrow night.

And and why just drops missus off at the friend's place and strapped and I'm driving.

I'm just to be able to pass Inglewood getting back to White.

I'm doing to show that tomorrow night.

There'll be no team who clos It's all on team tomorrow night.

What is that?

What?

Why?

No team?

So I could bring you and to say I'm not wearing team for a change, just just just just for a change, just just.

What's the what's the what's the crowd?

Oh, I'm hoping for it to crowd tomorrow night because I've been pumping the advertising on this and I've got a good following down and tearing neck.

In fact, I did an album a few years ago and I there's a there's a girl down here that sings.

I flew up to Autord and she's she's on my album and she's pretty well known down here and her family is So.

What David, what's the place you're playing White at?

An RSA one of my favorite places.

White.

I love it, I just love it.

Yes, Mad it's a real it's got a real feel to the town.

I love it.

It's something quite special about that.

Yep, I'm a big fan.

Hey oh yeah, what were your clothes with?

What will your close with tomorrow night?

Oh?

I'm pretty kind of pretty.

I've done the down of it, just just black jeans, black casual shirt and the black waistcoast Yeah.

Will you do waggon wheel?

Yeah, there's a the follow I've seen in a few country music festivals down here, so that that's the crowd that kind of know me so.

And there's a strong line aunts and community and rock and roll, so there'll be a lot of rock and roll, lot of a lot of country, a lot of line dancing sort of stuff here.

Definitely, wagon will.

I listened to it myself during the news day.

Thank you.

It's a feen line time they listened to the Wreck of the Erwin Fitzgerald.

What a song fifty years on Monday when the November winds came early.

Just so you know, I don't know what we're doing on Monday.

We'll see how we go.

We might speak to some maritime types.

The evening all all about parking, tickets and parking.

Tonight that's right.

That's what it's mainly always been about.

What we peop before the news about parking, parking, driving, yarns and the restaurant Rigram called the home place guestropub or guest drop up as it looks like anyway, how are you going, pet?

What's happening?

If we want to talk on air, that's the plan tonight as we cruise till midnight, get in touch Marcus.

More fireworks tomorrow night, Paradise Valley Raceway, stock cars meeting.

My house is joined the neighbors by a garage.

They have a three year old and a one and a half year old and right now they're sitting on fireworks still and the little girl screaming in the light.

Wish to take little ones to bed and stop now or earthquake potatadoo, oh thank you for that.

To the drums.

We've got a quake, guys.

It's quaky weather.

Eq in z eq in z.

I'm on it, oh, jeepers, creepers, look at that.

It was a while ago, was it?

Ninety three three point four twenty k's north of Tokaaa widely felt it's calling it weak.

You're week.

So it's been felt in Auckland.

Anyone else, Phelik, give us a holler.

It's been felt right round Hamilton the wor right across the toteng up, not as far as but up the coast towards Wayhee.

So yeah, someone and someone in Cambridge felt it as violent, very strong extreme.

Yeah, so there we go.

That's a situation there.

So there has just been a quake.

Other texts they come through at the time earthquake, pat big shake just north just now and talking.

I didn't see that, so I should have seen that when I was looking at it for the driver of for the drivers of tour coach is Queenstown has the most aggressive parking enforcement.

We bring in the lifeblood of Queenstown's economy.

But I'm not allowed to park there even the dessertand over like.

Parking requires moving on before the shops open.

Now, come on, h you'awn as you answer the cryptic anyway, do get in touch at ten past ten people, I'd like to hear from you.

We're talking parking, but we'll push the boat out of it tonight.

These other stuff you want to mention tonight.

In the final go around, the flurry, the flurry that's final love to hear from you.

Love to get you on the airwaves tonight.

Yep, talking about parking.

And oh, by the way, Queen Quantas are going to do a non stop flight from Sydney to London.

It's got a specially configured plane, the A three fifty one thousand ULR.

So this is a big unit.

They've ordered a dozen planes for Project Sunrise twenty two hours, cut four hours off the travel time.

So it's you compete to the one stop services.

It's a freaky looking plane.

Say how many on it?

Would it be?

Five hundred?

Quote?

We're in the article that sees how anyar on it?

No, I can't see.

Someone tell me the capacity of those planes.

But I don't people like planes.

But yes, we're welcoming your calls tonight.

If you want to talk at eleven past ten.

There's something different you've got you want to mention.

That would be good.

A big article on how you should let your children learn to cook, A very important that children cook.

You might you might have some story about cooking as a child.

You might have been something that started cooking free young and the great things you made.

We nice to talk to you about that too.

Come on be in touch.

You want to be a part of the show.

My name is Marcus, welcome and anything else you've got them up for it.

Yep yep, ybly yep, yep, yep, yep yep.

So that's what we're right about tonight.

Yeah, good on you be good to hear from you.

Keep those texts coming through too, if you might have felt that earthquake.

Also Jim steading along from twelve Marcus Tonight's topic.

Tonight's topic would be interesting how many stories went wrong with marketplace.

It's a good point.

I think most things go wrong with marketplace.

Just from listening to the show.

Most people have recommend that I don't partake.

No one gets paid.

I don't know if it's like that in other countries, but yeah, it seems to be a shamozzle here, not good at all to trade in.

So yeah, I'm warning you about that.

And the items don't seem that well presented either.

It's no trade me, but that might be something that you want to talk about.

Also, get in touch if you want to.

And parking is the name number one topic tonight.

I don't thin you've ever done.

We've never done car packing, have we?

Dan It feels new, doesn't it?

No, I wonder why because low hanging Froit.

We should have done it most weeks Richard, this is Marcus Welcome.

Yeah.

Well, actually I've got a chief things on.

But I was talking, I'll ring it.

What's the fireworks?

Wow thing?

But I'm parked in a campground in the in the South Island town and the fireworks started, and it's like an international campground.

And there's some people when expensive rental homes and they freaked.

They got out of their cars and fans and they were looking around and what's this?

What's this?

And they saw the backs in the sky and realized.

That it was fireworks and so not have it where they're from.

Maybe, but they didn't realize it was going on tonight.

Yeah, and a couple of girls in their vehicle left and yeah, so I'm and of course I've had a dog with me for a few years and she freaked, she's shaking, and I have to be with her when five weeks ago off?

So what do you mean by an international campground?

What's that?

It's called Penny, So I'm sure then are we looking it up?

But it's called Penny and you buy a card and you leave them.

It's in the South Island.

I don't want to go in to that.

And all of a sudden people started to see sitting off fireworks about half an hour ago, you know when it gets dark.

And I noticed that the big girl with expensive mode homes that pull up.

They they were the you know, because of their agent.

And I've not got a problem with the tourists thing.

But they were got ahead of these vehicles and was looking and around, and there's a bunch of them and then they realized that it was fireworks, and oh yeah, and they're talking to each other and they got back in their vehicles.

But it's like the dog freaks out.

And I used to live in a place close to you.

As soon as the national well queen's down and the farmers these tell me they wouldn't see deer look like the deers, but be for three weeks after that.

Is it a good thing or a bad thing?

Uh?

This?

Yeah, now they're.

They're they're rogue.

But they used to run off into the hills for three weeks.

And what's the what's the cameravan you get got?

Oh look, you know, I'm just gonna and the who years it's not to Yeah, yeah, I've we've been in touch a few times over the years, but I haven't called lately.

But I just thought the five weeks thing, what are you talking about?

What did you talk about the past?

Oh twoenty sixteen, I mentioned that there was a drone hovering over Lincoln.

Oh, yeah, I remember that.

If you asked me if I had any footage, and I haven't got the foliage but today, but I did have yeah, and today, so today the drones everywhere.

Well, I was a Panakaki recently.

You know, they've kind of banned the drones over over the pancake rocks.

I wonder why.

Well, the thing is, I've researched the laws and drones and essentially quite competitive, and you can't fly drone over anyone else's property.

So if yeah, if they a drone over the rocks themselves, I believe that would be legal.

But if they put them out to sea, they worried.

I wonderf they're worried about.

Yea.

I don't know what that's about anyway, Richard, Okay, yeah, as far, I haven't heard any far works while you've been on the phone.

They're still going now, no.

No, no, no, no, no, had to settle the dog down and these people actually the girls drove away and came back, so it must have gone down to see the fireworks.

Could well have done.

Thanks Richard.

There we go eighteen past ten.

Live it up, people, Come on, do your duty, do your talk back.

Jourdy jumping move the old topic along.

Don't know why.

I think he's in Blenheim.

Never heard of these pennies campground.

Oh four hundred and eighty seats on that plane a maximum four eighty as few as two three eight fireworks update Marcus was doing fireworks with the family.

Had a Roman candle type thing and all night that'd been inconsistent between four to seven shots.

Was holding one to four shots, then stopped, thought it was done after huge today, was putting it down and then shot one more went through my hand back with hit me in the groin rather than hysterics.

Not ideal but decent impact.

Cheers Jordan.

On your Jordan, I've got a parking ticket in the white Katta for my classic nameplates car when or was in my garage at home.

I suggest that the Meta may need her eyes getting tested.

Marcus Queenstown under COVID Queenstown was Assoli got two tickets for dropping my wife off, would pick her up at a Texas stand near the restaurant.

We were going to great welcome from the council.

John, Yep, that's what we're about.

Nineteen past ten.

Here'll twelve be a part of it.

If you want to come in and join the merry men with their talking discussions tonight didn't make much sense, but you know, you get the drill.

Text and emails they are all good.

Anything else that's good too.

If you want a text or talk, we can handle it.

Oha eight, one hundred and eighty ten eighty Come on, Oh, how's the meteor shower fizzer?

Eh?

Here we did anything about it?

Maybe it's next week.

But there was a quake, and talk it over there.

It's just happened about a quarter of an hour ago.

Legend lives on twenty two past ten.

Parking tickets and the bad ones you've got and how you got out of them, now, that's one of the things we've talked about tonight.

It's pretty much only been that actually, So if you want to do a bit of a pivot learning to cook when you were young, that's of interest.

Marcus.

Lots of bioluminescence in stan Moore Bay, hc Hibiscus Coast, and enjoy your night.

I love the bio illuminescence.

Imagine it's just there too, the full moon out there at the peninsula.

Brilliant text.

If you've got them emails, if you can, by the way, Massy in west Auckland, you've lost power.

You'll know that if you have, it won't be on till the morning, so don't stay up for it.

I just go to bed, hit the hay, or go do some burnouts.

I'm joke, and go do what you do out there.

I don't know what you do, but yes you normally you got to be in a car when there's a power cut to charge your phone, don't you.

Yes, I just think where it's going to get you going.

Oh.

The other thing we're too about is how slow postage has become three weeks and eight weeks for the lessons said around New Zealand.

I'm sure the British postal service is still working.

Well would you think you'd imagine so, wouldn't you?

So?

Anyway, get in touch with your any of these things.

At twenty five past ten, the topic bar is not hard tonight but there might be something else you just want to have a bit of a bang on about.

That's fine.

You might just want a bit of a chit chat about something, but low key.

I can handle that.

We could all handle that.

But be a part of you want to talk as I say, oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty, you've got something different you want to talk about.

Find of a problem with that by or I don't know if I want to talk about bioluminescence.

Not much you could say about that.

There'd be some reason for it.

But do come through if you want to be a part of the show and rugby League on Sunday.

He's in well looks at most of his in team could claim to be some mo into which is pretty interesting.

Certainly they will one day be the number one rugby league team in the world, I would believe, if not already, which is exciting.

But yes, be a part of If you want to be a part of the show, give us a call.

Hi, Pauline, Hello Marcus, Marcus, you have access to Google, don't you?

Maybe?

Okay?

The sheriffs in the High Court in New Zealand, what exactly is their job?

Okay?

Where what are you thinking, Pauline, where are we going with this?

Well, if our police individuals have been up to no good and they go to court, isn't it ironic that there might be a sheriff that has something to do with their sentencing.

Sherif's got anything to do with sentencing?

I don't know what they do.

What have you been listening to?

I read it.

On Google.

Nope, in the newspaper and the christ to its press in the section where they have the liquidations and the estate information, that sort of thing.

Sheriff's in his inner officers for the superior courts and function as the executive arm of these courts.

They are responsible for serving court processes like summons and subpoenas in the same ways that bailiffs serve the court process in the district court.

Thank you, Marcus, thank you very much.

They are forbid of com acting as Barista's listeners are barristers, not baristas.

Sisters are acting as an agent of the law while employed in the role of sheriff.

That doesn't mean much to me.

Does it mean anything to you?

Uh?

It just means I've never heard it before for and it's more an American term as far as I'm on you.

And yeah, sheriffs in New Zealand.

There a sheriff of Nottingham.

Yeah, well that's England.

Yeah, that's England, UK.

There you go, got on your paulabe.

Good to see someone store reading the press, old school speaking about post his career.

As they turned up with a parcel for us and wanted me to sign the electronic bed.

I was were in gardening gloves, so it wouldn't work.

He said, don't worry, I'll side up for you.

Good on them.

That's what we want.

No nonsense, carrier, It's exactly what you want.

What you take your gardening gloves off?

Should I be doing?

Just roll them off, slide them off.

You know the thing you do is they sort of unravel.

Steve, it's Marcus welcome.

Yeah, I've had four parking tickets for this year.

What fur double parking on a yellow line in the main street of Invercargo really red Masda and I have a Blue Master and I live in ten Wow.

And what had happened is this vehicle it was registered in two thousand and mine is only three years old.

The first three letters of the same pg Y it's a one down an in the cargo.

The mine's a seven mind blue and the one down there's red.

I've had four this year.

I go just go down to the courthouse and I showed the lady the picture of my car and she said, oh, we'll sort that out a couple of months later.

Another one, this is the red master two down there?

Have they altered the one to make it look like a seven mast two?

Yeah, I haven't got a picture of it, but there apparently have been an eagerly packed four times this year in the main street of in Vocago.

And they must have done the dodge.

They must have dodged up the number plate.

Yours is the one and these is the seven.

Right, mine's the seven done there one was registered in two thousand and the idea of the Correa said, oh she checked it.

She said, ah, it's a red one.

I said, well, mine's blue.

How does a blue one get down?

Never been to in Vocagole, but anyway, so I haven't had to pay anything, but it's just inconvenience getting this.

A leader from the Transport department saying, I've been double packed on a yellow line.

In the main street.

You think they'll be onto it now if it's havened three times.

Well, yeah, I said to the lady at the court house, I said, look if I ignored that, what would happen?

She said, you probably find that the courts that come after you for.

Am paid fine.

Oh, I said, oh, well I should show you this.

He said, no, you've done the right thing.

I'll sort it out.

But it hasn't been sorted out.

Well, I guess you guys must enjoy something like this because they give you something to do with your day, doesn't You're down the court and have a good jet to them.

It's all good, doesn't it.

Yeah, well, the guys said, I worked well, I used to work for a security firm and I have always show them my security license that I've got.

I've got more qualifications of these guys that are at the door.

And they said, oh you again.

They remember me all the time.

I don't know what the money for and a half.

I'm a little fellow.

What security work did you do?

Oh for amagad for number of years?

I am mainly just doing things like broken windows and banks and suspicious things going on, doing observations, a bits and pieces A yeah, you know it was.

It was an interesting job.

But yeah, I'm too old now of seventy, too old to be doing that sort of thing.

You just still do a part time job, couldn't you.

Well, yeah, I have got a friend through through the security firm that's works at the bank and Hamas and Denny Burke and he's a bank he's the bank security.

He's just in seventy and he said, well, when I retired the bank closers because they have to have a guard.

Yeah, but it's just the young ones the day.

They just don't want to do that sort of work it right, not because it's a low paid or anything.

You know, I've got a reasonable h It's boring a lot of the works, boring stuff, you know, but somebody's got to do it.

You haven't done banks.

You haven't done standing outside the banks, have you.

I've done to work at night where they've been getting tradesmen and doing work in the bank.

They have to have a guard.

There, Yep.

While while they've got while the door is insecure, even if everything's under time, block guard's got to be there with the workers just in case anybody comes in and tries to interfere with anything.

Well that was at four foot there would be a bat.

You could do were there or you got you've got skills.

No, what all I do is I'm I'm in contact with the base or the time half.

I've got to ring back and tell them everything's okay.

You know, I've got to have a welfare checking me down.

And one place there they put a mural on the wall inside looks really nice.

Wow.

But the guys worked there for four hours putting this mural up.

Orthough just sit there and read a book.

There was nothing much I could do.

But yeah, I'll say if the young ones that want to do do work of that sort of nature, it's not that difficult.

Nice to hear from Steve.

Thank you, evening, Jessica.

This is Marcus.

Welcome.

Hi Marcus.

How are you?

Oh good, Jessica, thank you.

You have to excuse me, I'm a little bit nervous.

Wow, listen to you.

Yep.

I was just bringing up of that parking.

This was the worst parking check out I think I've ever had.

My husband and I were doing a fertility treatment John and Dunedin, and if you're familiar with Dunedin, it's near the Octagone.

The no parking.

We managed to get a park and we were quite lucky.

But obviously the treatment went a little bit longer than expected and we had to move the car.

So the husband moved the car.

There was no where to park by the Countdown car park, which is about a two minute walk away.

Oh, yes, you're I'm familiar with it.

I know the geography, yes.

Yes, So he whipped down there part of the car.

Thought quick, I'll go pick up the wife and we'll walk down and we'll move the car.

So we did that.

Orrie had probably gone about five minutes.

But by the time we got back there we were getting teck ated.

Me being days to us just had a sly little surgery.

We kind of said to the lady like, come on, man, like, you know, we've had no where to park.

You know, I've got the little rest, you know, take it on my rest, saying I've been in hospital, blah blah blah blah.

Can't get less.

So we got the ticket.

We went off after the husband said a few two rough words and I thought, well, I'll ride away, so the nex to say, I thought right onto the ticket and ride away.

So like it was this twenty four hour parking ticket to ride away on.

So we ended up just having to pay it.

What's it?

What's it about?

Twenty four hour?

Tell me how that works?

Well, somehow on a couple of the parking tickets, if you think they're unfear, you're allowed to sort of ride away, like you please find you could ride away on EF you feel like it was it was unfear, but it was only ahead that it was only twenty four hours that you're entitled to ride away, so we do it.

I couldn't do it.

It was like case closed, Sorry, you have to pay the ticket.

And I was like, well, yeah, I'm quite cushat about that.

I thought it was really really rude.

That makes no sense.

We have to write back that soon.

No one's the organized yeah you.

Think, yeah, but yeah, by twenty four hours to write back, but I didn't write back in time.

It was pretty days confused, slightly under yeah, some sedation drugs, But yeah, I couldn't ride away and they wouldn't let me because they didn't do it with the twenty four hours and had to pay the barking ticket.

So don't park in the Countdown car park in Doneda.

Did you buy anything from there?

No?

No, it was the mistake.

But they watched you leave the car park.

They're pretty much dear watching either.

They wouldn't know if you've shopped, if you shop park, would they know if you'd shopped or not.

We haven't gone into the shop.

I don't know.

Yeah, it seems funny.

I've a lot of people talk about the Dunedin Countdown car park and as if you leave your car and you don't even walk into the supermarket you're instantly getting ticket.

It that they're watching you.

Yeah, I have used that car park just and gone and shopped and stuff, but.

I wouldn't use it now enough.

I wouldn't.

I would not.

I'd advise Jessica, thanks very much.

That twenty to eleven, Hndle twelve, eighteen to eleven and I'm here till twelve Jim Steedden from Midnight get in touch with talking when you've been hard done by parking, those stories and when you've tried to actually protest and also the bad start of U z in and mail.

I posted one card to oz one card with his in the oscard got there before the zen one arrived.

I've got a parking ticket at the City Doctors and Parmeson North for the regio.

Been out, got out of the ticket as they sent me the wrong infringement number containing someone else's information.

They waved the ticket due to breach of privacy.

Marcus got off a spreading ticket back in the day instant four ninety dollars.

Infringement went to part and there was no record of it.

After studying this ticket, I noticed he hadn't circled the day of the week.

Still have it to this day, Marcus.

I've had a few parking tickets in christ Chuch at Wilson's car park because I've forgotten to pay on the app when rushing to work.

Everyone was waved because I used a different excuse than before.

When contesting it, they even said we've not waived a parking ticket for this reason before eighty dollars a daylight robbery.

I've had a few parking tickets that oh yes, oh now, as if by magic.

At the crucial moment, times stood still.

One of the ramps had come up hard against defense post straight away.

I thought, never ceases to a maze.

But anyway, yeah, the damn carbon shaft handbrake used chocks.

After that, I'd yelled the customer chocks away, chaps, and my best high English astidy excit not like I thought a colleague was killed after the transporter he was driving random over as he walked to get a machine chocks away.

Sixteen to eleven Here till twelve.

It's all about parking or if you have something interesting you want to talk about.

God, yep, I don't know what it is for the final hour of this final hour and ten hour and fifteen might have some interesting plans for the weekend.

You might be out and about.

You might have been to a shower, to a movie.

I think people always say that the cities are quite quiet at night because most people work from home on a Friday, which is killed Friday nights out.

Is that true?

Just put it out there.

Yeah, fifteen to eleven, so twelve from eleven we take my headphones off.

It's been a long night with the headphones on without to give my ease a bit of arrest as I get to the end, and how are you people?

Now?

Let me just have ari of a look at what's what's going on in the world tonight that we want to talk about.

Besides part well, I've enjoyed parking tickets extra as a topic are now there is the Auckland FC versus Wellington Phoenix.

Now is that on this weekend?

I haven't got my headphones on down Is that on this weekend?

Yes, it was on.

I don't know when that's on.

Why are they hyping that today?

No, I can't see that.

By the way, we're playing Scotland.

That's for a terrible time.

That's ten past four in the morning.

I watched that after that appalling Irish game that was just unwatchable.

Some of you will be watching it.

Got a ticket once for displaying my prepaid ticket.

It on the deashboard on my car the wrong way, Marcus.

I went to the shops, came up stor I had a ticket for no REJO, so I cared on walking to the post office, brought my ridho as quickly as possible.

Write letters saying I was lining up to get my ridghow.

When I got the ticket, they let me off.

That is smart.

I love how people get the tickets that they go get the red show.

That's great.

It is easy to forget when your jo's out, though, isn't it.

I've experienced that.

What I don't like a lot of people are going to doctors and stuff when you kind of panicked anyway, and you kind of panic to get a park.

Don't like those stories.

But there's no solution ready for parking.

I don't know what.

I don't know what the solution is.

I think the retailers like parking that's enforced because it tunes the people over.

That's what they want.

They want more people coming to the shops.

I suppose what about that guy about the car park at Papa Moa.

Apparently there's heaps of it.

Anyway, Now let me just get all my Oh, by the way, there's been an earthquake too, and talkaro and three point five.

I'll just check on that on the eq in said.

Yeah.

The equin said just to actually haven't been any more after quakes.

It was a three point four was shallow five k's.

It wasn't long ago.

It was an hour ago, ten from eleven.

Good evening, Jan Marcus, welcome.

I bet Marcus.

I have three things I want to say.

The first thing about the earthquake.

I used to live in Toku, and I don't ever remember having an earthquake there before.

And you said it was felt up in Auckland, And as far as I know, there's never been an earthquake North of edgecum so the feeling it in Auckland and that's pretty unusual too, And I'm sure I felt it while I was sitting watching Billy and the table that's beside my cheir removed and I thought, what's going on there?

It's normally the cat jumping on it.

And they kept looking around and the cat wasn't there, and the table seemed to be moving on its own.

Just at that moment, I thought maybe we felt it here too.

I thought you'd be more lucky to thought Jen, I thought you'd be more likely to feel the one yesterday that was quite a big a lot of people.

I know he felt yesterday's one.

Yeah, I'm well, I heard it early in the morning from God that was going to be an earthquake, but I didn't know where, and I didn't feel it.

How does how does it communicate that stuff to you?

Jen?

Sorry?

What how does God communicate that kind of stuff to you?

Well, it's a far away little whisper.

And you hear it or do you feel it?

No, it's like telepathy.

Yeah, you don't hear it with your eats, so it's a far away sort of whisper, just like telepathy.

Do you know what that is.

No, tell me more.

Oh, well, that's what animals use as telepathy.

And you know, if you've had someone close to you, like a wife or partner, often people who are close can communicate telepathectly without talking.

You know, they just look at each other and they know what each other is thinking.

That sort of thing.

Have you always had that?

Yeah, since I was a child.

And you can communicate with animals that way through picturing.

You know what you're doing or where you're going, if you're taking a dog for a walk, tuning in to telepathectly to your mind and what you're thinking and viewing in a picture for Yeah, a lot of people do it.

You probably do it.

Are you communicating with your cat tonight?

Not right now?

But if I if I want them to come in, like with the fireworks going off, I can call them tele perfectly and they'll come.

Have you got a cat door, You've got to open the door.

No, they come through the cat door with Yeah, I've got three of them.

The other thing you know about these fireworks, You know, people kill all these animals like hedgehogs and possums and cats and all that because they want to save the birds.

But you know, I have lots of birds here, every sort of birdcha just about heaps of them, and you can hardly think for the noise of it.

But what all of these guide hawks that bonds are going off at night?

The birds are flowing and I'm so worried because they have nests in the trees with their babies and them, and have they flowing away because of it?

So frightened.

I'm worried for the babies in the nests being at them.

And it's quite the critical, isn't it.

And what's your third point?

Jan Oh, I can't think you had three.

I think we started with the I can't remember your first point.

What's your first point?

The first point was the earthquakes?

Oh, yes, and then you went on to cats.

Oh was it?

One was earthquakes?

Two telepathy?

And three the birds of the trees.

No, there was some other topic and I've forgotten it now.

Oh Christmas, Yes, getting ready for Christmas, starting to think about Kristin, you know, and getting ready.

People started early and get organized.

I thought this year I might give everyone cookery books.

Well, I have lots of them, and of course I can't read them anymore, so they're no use to me.

And I've given many box loads of books to the Red Cross Bookshop, and I just thought, now I've got all these cookery books and I think i might send them off to you guys.

Oh no, oh no, that's lovely, But we can't handle old books because we'd have to How would we give them away?

Get them away away?

Why would you say them to us a Christmas present?

Okay?

Yes?

What meant first aid books and gardening books and the whole sorts of wonderful cookery books.

What was your favorite cook What was your favorite cookery book?

Jen?

Well, the one I was looking at today sorting through them, a fabulous one on how to make ice cream and a recipe for ice cream.

I thought that would make a nice guest for someone.

Whose book was that.

What was it called?

Did you reader the title making ice Cream?

I don't know the author making ice Cream?

Okay, there gen nice to talk to you.

Thank you for that.

There we are.

The eleven o'clock news is not far away.

I'll be with you till midnight.

That's my promise to you.

We'll kick it alonger.

But the next I think we'll need to give it some energy.

I need some energy for the final hour.

Yep, now, but be in touch.

I won't get your time before the news, but will certainly talk to you afterwards if you want to be a part of it.

Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.

Keep those texts going through the news time if you've got those, so you to send us all of our books there for a while, or the cheapest creepers.

Back in the day, we had a big earthquake between Mutter and Mutter and Morrinsville also felt the earthquake a few months ago here in the Bay of Plenty.

Good on you on the fifty complaints on the KFC Hecker it's about finger licking.

Good not about finger tapping prudes.

I thought it was quite creepy, but good on.

Then they need to change the image KFC.

They need to freshen up I think the Yeah, I don't know what they need.

Welcome people.

It's the final hour for me tonight for my week.

So yeah, yeah, ye, Pio, she's been a long week.

Have you got anything you want to say on air tonight for the final bit?

There will be good.

There might be something entirely different you want to talk about tonight.

I want to tell me how excited you are about the test against the Scottish or how unexcited you are.

What else about you want to mention tonight?

I don't know, but if you want to talk, we've been talking parking tickets and getting off parking tickets.

I only tried getting off a ticket once and it was for going too fast to fifty k speeds though, and I still to this day always think the sign was obscured by the railway sign.

So actually I thought probably I had right for that one, but they yeah, I should have tried harder.

Actually, every time I drive past that era, I get reminded how injust that ticket was.

But I have moved on the other thing too.

We haven't talked much about Ballantine, the shop in christ Church they reckon that's in real trouble.

Looking at the articles the last couple of days, is that the impression you have got for those people in christ Church?

Does it look like it's best days are behind it.

It's facing a squeeze from a difficult retail environment.

It's managers calling it a severe recession.

So that's that you got to take layoff staff.

But I wonder what the vibe is because christ Church I thought was doing quite well from a retail point of view.

I mean, there's a lot of good stories coming out about christ Church.

Maybe the inner city has never recovered a maybe everyone's out there at the suburbs shopping.

You might want to mention that too, that you want to talk about tonight.

I'm up for that.

But anything goes to the final hour loose like a goose.

Be in touch, Jim, this is Marcus.

Welcome and good evening.

Oh thanks you.

H'm Marcus.

That's a fine story for you.

A few years ago and tell I don't know make cool days.

He was well into his eighties and he got a parking fine for parking across the service lane or in front of the service lane.

So I said to him, look, Dave, we'll go into the town city council and we'll see if we can get you off your fine.

And he had a bad knee and could only walk for the walking speck.

So we go into the council chambers and he pronounced the sort of injury, you know, walks of the huge limp to get a bit of sympathy from the two receptions of the staighties, and they were absolutely brilliant.

He said to them, look, I'm a pension and I can't afford to pay eighty dollars.

And they were so good to him.

They said, look, we can't make a decision, but we've got a colleague here that reviews all parking fines.

And they did that, and the upshot was a week later he got a letter in the mail saying they'd whap the fine.

But it was absolutely classic.

I was fitting a few meters, almost boost their laughing, you know something, you know, looking up to the counter to get sympathy.

But it worked.

He really milked it, did he?

Oh?

Absolutely, you know, like a Hollywood sort of award winning act.

He put on for about five minutes.

Well he probably should have.

He's probably been around for long enough to know we should be parking across the service lane.

Yeah, oh, just one of those things.

Yeah, and he probably and he probably didn't do it again, did would he?

He probably would his lesson.

No, Well, that's a side story that he A short time later, he decided he better not drive.

You know, he wasn't confident driving because he's well into his eighties.

So he did the right thing, you know, he saw the scan and then brought a mobility scooter instead.

Brilliant.

Good on you, Jim, thank you for that.

Sue's Marcus, good evening.

Hi is it yes?

Hi, Sue?

Hi nichis Yeah.

I wanted to talk about cooking with my children when they were growing up.

It's a highlight of my parenting.

Is a sol appearent.

Wow.

And we used to.

Set up and go through the cooking book and get more complicated recipes that had you get the dry ingredients, you do the wet ingredients you talk to And what we used to do was the table would be in the middle of the room and on top of our fridge, a tall fridge, there was the microwave and the microwave was the TV camera and we were going to explain to the people out in the TV world what we were doing.

Wow.

And so we used to have a lot of fun doing it.

And you know, for anybody who'd ever considered cooking with their kids, I know people are busy, but if on the weekend they get an opportunity.

It's a bit of background.

My children had a very rough childhood.

They were.

Being through some very raw, frightening experiences.

They're left and traumatized and this created an avenue for me as a solo.

Parents spent time with them to build their confidence, to distract them from what it has been had mean to give them the joy of having completed a task.

I don't record them doing the dishes a lot, but we certainly enjoyed the fruitage of that and created some wonderful memories.

My daughter grew up.

She then taught her kids, her two boys, to cook, and every night every week they would have a night each where they would prepare food for the family, and again when they came to visit me and I just you know, these days when families aunts united, we don't have much time together.

I couldn't afford to go out and take them out anywhere very much.

But this was the thing that bonded us and gave us so much joy, in addition to giving them a skillful when they left time.

So I hope people can try and get back into it, because I think it gives us so much.

What was the most successful stuff that you cooked?

Oh, we won't rate it on successes, but I do remember as my oldest daughter got a bit more confidence and she would tackle recipes on her own.

I remember just going out the back door from the kitchen, so I could see her through the through the glass, and I turned my back for a while, and she came running out to me, and she'd been doing one of those sort of slices where you put all the dry ingredients together and sort of melt the butter on the stove sort of thing.

Well, she'd obviously decided to do it her way, because she came running out to me and said, Mum, the plastic bowl of melting.

So I said, oh, well, you know, we all make mistakes.

It was all fine, but it was it was just it wasn't about success all that.

My grandkids, you know, they made a roast meal for us, and we did a lot of experimenting.

We'd go out in the garden and make me traffic traffic like traffic like juices, and we do the green with the silver beets and the carriage juice, the beat through and try that.

And they knew I was a bit wacky, you know.

At times we survived.

One was making the roast dinner.

He was a bit older.

And then I said to my other grandson, or let's let some invent are pudding, and so what have we gotten in the cupboards?

So we got some dates and some kidney beans.

They mustard all together and added some chocks.

We put some chocolate into it.

You'll put some chocolate, and we made ourselves quite a healthy budge slice for after this roast dinner and things like that.

Was absolutely I think about the thing about cooking, so it is very forgiving.

I mean it's remarkably how cooking with the kids, how successful it normally is.

I mean, it always goes well.

You can't lose when you when you when you're reaping joy.

That's absolutely right.

Yeah, Okay, nice to hear from you, So I appreciate that.

Sixteen past eleven.

If you want to talk cooking with children and parking tickets, there are two of the things we are talking about tonight.

But that is not the limit.

You might be driving tonight.

You might have some conditions on the road or some road reports.

You might have been doing some thinking as you're driving.

What was that thinking about?

Marcus the Valentine's shop in the Unity of christ Church.

It's really expensive, and maybe the client tell us to stop there, maybe tightly their purses and shopping around other options which are slightly cheaper.

Yes, I would think so they themselves might be on Timu Marcus, I had seventeen thousand worth of parking fines, didn't do community service to get them down, paid them all off.

Wow.

Hi, David's Marcus welcome.

Hey Marcus here are you?

Goodness?

Dave?

Yeah, I'm looking forward to the Lead Test, the Samoa final of a Cup, whatever it is.

The Samoa Test for the Kiwis, That's what I'm looking forward to.

As for the Scotland Test, I couldn't give a toup.

That's really You wouldn't be upset if some one that either would you?

No, No, if they deserve to and they play well enough, and they'll have to play well enough American motions to win it, No, I wouldn't be upset at all.

I had given me a I've given their juices now, Valentine.

Hang on, Dave, I'll just say what I saw interesting.

I saw a post in one of the Australian League things.

I think probably about ten of the Kiwis could have qualified for Samoa, so it seems like, yeah, which is pretty interesting.

It seems like they're dominating both teams, so that was azzy anyway.

Valentine's Yeah, I was going to say just quietly not surprising.

I'm not surprised by that at all.

Now, Valentine's look markets, the central of the city here in christych is largely inaccessible for traffic.

It's only really for traffic and cycles.

And then you know, the last time I walked past Valentine's was a lot of homeless, many homeless, sleeping on barbull boxes.

And it wasn't a good look.

And that was just for the COVID I updated.

I have to go into the central city to update my passport, and I saw that and I thought to myself, Man, that place has gone down, you know.

But who who shops in the central city of christ Chitch anymore?

So the central city is just not what it was and it's a shame.

But even the strip of christ Chats, you know, So, Dave.

Dave, you'd never go You wouldn't go in there at all.

No, okay, No?

And is it because it was ground zero for the quake?

No, not there at all.

It's just okay, it was ground zero.

And look, I spent a lot of time in the central city.

I used to do a bit of door work in there, Mickey Finns and what have you.

But look, Marcus, how do I say, it's just not inviting.

There's nothing for me to go in therefore, and I would suggest the only thing keeping the Valentine's open and training is online.

But online you've got the Tamo.

Now, of course, why shop Balentins.

It costs very expensive and okay, the quality is there, I'll give you that, but is it worth so much warm Well, I'm not so sure.

I also thinks someone that realis that goes probably once a year for two weeks to christ Church.

We normally stay summer in.

We normally stay somewhere in town.

But yes, you've got that where the cathedral is all boarded off.

That kind of creates a bit of a dead zone.

That kind of it's still you don't feel as good wandering around the city because you've got to go past that whole boarded up area.

It's not kind of it's not quite fixed as it.

No, And Marcus is at the moment, well, the last several months that I have driven up Barbados Street and the area around there is mostly unpleasant because of the building and construction that's going on with the new Lancaster Park replacement.

It's an unpresent place to be and I don't know that there's going to be any better.

Goodness me, the congestion in town during a big festival or something on that park is going to be most unpleasant to be around.

I think I think it's built the wrong spot myself.

Oh Dave, look, I'm so heartened that you've said that.

Not that I should be hardened because it's there for good now, but yeah, big stadiums and studies they create kind of a deed zone around them.

Because yeah, it was completely wrong, but there was no telling people.

People who bought the call aid that it's going to revive the city, but you know, I mean one day a week it might.

But anyway, and Mark, unfortunately, I've got to say the same for the new swimming pool.

It's more house there.

The parking issues and what have you.

Like, you know, I'm a member of the council Gyms and Pools, swimming pools that applies to all of them.

But the parking issues, because of course the congestion for the hospital christ Church Public Hospital and what have you, we've got to apparently pay for parking with us.

I'm going to go there once and that will be it.

That's a new, big swimming pool in the central of the city.

It's going that was well as could have been a better place built somewhere different or somewhere else to be for accessibility and parking, et cetera.

There should have been, you know, there should have been a lot more consultational thought.

Should have been a lot more thought, and that's going into both both of those big projects.

Marcus.

Shame really nice to hear, Dave.

You've kept it everything very well.

Twenty five past eleven, Marcus, I've got off a parking ticket because the parking want to write my region number wrong on the ticket.

Marcus, how does zbe?

This has fit about the Chinese Commonist Party have an excess to parking history and private address and identifies via Smart Parking Services and Wilson's Parking Marcus.

One inspirational call with Sue.

I'd be a start to watch your cookery show.

Jake here, love your show.

Just want to say well done, Sue.

Cooking and bonding with the children through hard times.

Valentine's is the only place you can buy Ralph Loreena New Zealand and some other brands, which attracts me.

I don't know about Ralph Lauren, what do you reckon about Ralph Lauren?

It's one of the concerts on tonight.

Is Jelly Roll performing tonight?

Like he's touring?

Is he?

I don't know what Normally about this time people say I've been such and such a concert.

Don't mind those calls either.

Tonight people, I was singing Western Springs tomorrow.

Wow, jelly Roll, that's what's happening.

It's been a while since there's been a big concert there hasn't there.

I don't know how many tickets they've sold.

I had no idea people are still doing Western Springs.

Would he be bigger than Teddy Swims?

Is performing the outer Field at Western Springs on Saturday.

I wonder how many tickets are available.

I wouldn't go.

I don't I'm not a Jelly Rolls guy.

It's called the outer Field.

I don't know how many would go for that.

So if you know anything about that, that's of interest.

I think he's probably one of those sorts of people that people who are into a well into.

I'm looking to try to see what the tickets are, although I really want to see a map of the field.

I don't really know where the outer Field at Western Springs is Actually I just try to see what would it be twenty thousand?

Would it be more like five thousand?

Oh yeah, so at Stadium Road Bullock Track general admission seating.

I kind of can't quite have to go to Google Maps to see where infect the field is.

I don't think it's the big venue.

Let me just have a bit of a look at this so I can compare that to the that's a bit complicated to work out.

Actually, Stadium Road, Bullock Track.

Oh yeah, let me just look at that and Google Earth so I get the vibe of how many I think it's on the It's on that outdoor field, the one that's by the Great North Road I presume, and the Bullock Track and Stadium Road.

Yeah, it's a different kind of an area.

I don't know what they normally have there in that area, but that's interesting that it's there.

They've actually had venues, oh yes, I don't even know they head content there in the past.

So it's it's not the major area.

It's the ground adjacent to Great North Road, half past eleven exactly, Philip.

It's Marcus, good evening.

Good evening, Marcus.

Look, I would just like to say how much I always enjoy going into Valentine's Great The thing I have found over the years, it is not necessarily the price that has worried me.

It has been more the quality of the goods that I have got from them, like my clothes and everything that have lasted for years and still do.

And I think that that's been one of the things that they have succeeded with over the years.

It is not just priced, it is quality and attracting their customers back all the time, and I think that's been ultimately what people like mister Richard Valentine, who you used to see before he retired, around the store, going around saying hello to customers and everything.

He always made sure that he kept in contact with both people and staff on the floor of the shop.

Have you been there recently, Philip, Oh, yes, I am a I go.

In quite regularly, and I always enjoy anything I do and get in there because of what I feel is a balance of charity and prime.

Would you acknowledge that things haven't seen quite as upbeat dear of recent times, because I've certainly noticed that.

Well, yes, that that may be so, but you had a lot of redevelopment done since the earthquake, and you've had a lot of redevelopment done like that to make it better for people in this modern day.

And you are.

Fighting against to appoint certain levels of trade like you've just seen, for instance, Marcus Smith's city disappeared.

That was one hundred and seven years old.

But ask yourself what has made Valentines live for one hundred and seventy one years plus?

And it is always the one thing that you hear around the world in places like Harold's and places like Valentine's here they keep their customers happy.

Nice to hear from you, Philip, Thanks so much there twenty eight to twelve.

Cliff Richard live two weeks in christ Does it mean he's here in two weeks?

Marcus want to shame Valentine's is the lovely store?

Was the only one that closed there is was the one that closed down your way.

The only apartment store have lifted is in Soon will be Farmers.

One of think Farmers that the original Farmers is not the now.

It's just kind of well.

Swift and Carries is gone, Milns has gone, Milon Choice is gone.

The one rem Widow What was that called?

It was the apartment store that has gone.

I called Milns as well, Caucaldi and ste Aims, and christ Church's gone.

H and Jays, Oh, I don't say H's like that.

Chi and Jays and Vert Cargo's gone.

I think the one in Dunedin has gone, so there aren't many left now.

So yes, so they keep that going.

That would be against world trends, even those ones in Australia.

You know, you go to your David Jones, they're a shadow of themselves, so I think that's where the writing is.

But you know, good on them.

But after awhile, I guess just probably start hemorrhaging money?

Do you.

And then what do you do?

You need a side pivot.

I think the people down in Vert Cargo had the ancient Jays.

They were okay because they had the They all said, might a ten so which would be the busiest store in the busiest store in Southland, I would imagine.

So they had the right pivot.

So they've got that and I think they've got the mighty ten and Queenstown as well, so they certainly had a B plan.

That's what you need because those hardware mega stores there, I mean, they're they're the one that right that wiped out the barbecue factoring all those stores.

I mean they are giants.

Yeah, Pete, this is Marcus welcome.

I can see about the parking.

I reckon.

The government's got to step in here somehow.

Now how these so called companies are just blatant, the taking the mickey out of what they're doing the people.

They have to make a lore in that after from a certain period of time when there's ten minutes or whatever.

You don't it seems like.

It seems people have been really barely hitting Hamilton.

Yeah, that's it's it's actually two years ago.

I went to that rock Vesta that year.

They normally have a woody anger, so they had the Hamilton Hamiltons do two years ago.

Yeah, what happened?

I came across the same thing at Burger King there.

You tell me, tell me the story.

So what I was doing was I thought I would Yeah, I thought I'd just go and get some breakfast here, you see.

And I thought had just stayed the night there.

Yeah, yeah, so I thought I'll I'll go and get some breakfast, you know.

And when I'm when I'm out, and about what I do is I like to utilize the time.

The other other day.

Otherwise, what's the point of sleeping.

You're not seeing much in your sleep.

So you're on holidays, so you get up early, not waste the day, say up at six.

Yeah.

So I was there and then what happened was I was there and I thought, I'll go, I'm going to get some burger king there.

And I've got there.

It's about do you like do you like?

Do you like burger king?

Yes?

Bad?

Yeah?

Yeah, okay, yep, And I thought okay, And I thought I thought they would have been open about that time and just before nine o'clock and I thought I was nobody there.

It's weird.

So well, I was, I will go and find a map, as I'm from the old school, like the old physical.

Match, you know, I like you can touch and look at and fold.

Yeah.

So the bus the bus depot was just across the other side of the street pretty much.

It's a big came up there and that part of Hamilton there, So I thought I'll walk there and I'll go and go to the bus station and with the information center there they might have a just basic street map of Hamilton.

You know, which most cities do you go in for Maten center?

I thought, I'll go to the most busty post.

It's quite a big main bustypoty in Hamilton there and in the cities go there and their own buses go there.

And I thought I'll go there, and fair enough I went there, and then I got the hold of a map there and then I was looking around you as you do your door, all around, you know, and have look us a nice bus station, you know, And I'll be wander back and get a bit of bricker, you know, the my laptop there and then i'll just get there three WiFi and I'll just go there and hidden back.

And I saw the skies.

It was quite a long drive there.

It's actually a private sort of a drive before those came out then, and the way I was walking back and I saw the sky looking for the walk through the door if on the outside on these parking orders.

By the time I walked there must have been about fifty eighty meters from where he was the time I walked back to my car, well, he's obviously had shot through.

He'd got done and done a goner.

And then I thought, then I.

Had a lot at my can.

There's a bloody parking ticket on there what the hell?

So how long had you gone to look for the map?

For fifteen minutes?

Oh, it might have been roughly.

Yeah, And then you're then and then you're in.

You're in burger King, having a burger, having it.

You'd purchase stuff in burger King.

There's what happened.

I walked back.

Then they were open, dony thing about it when I got back there open, so I must I left it before nine o'clock.

Lie, while they must be not closed.

They thought that whatever it was not open.

So thought, I'll go and get a map and maybe they will be open.

And I didn't actually locked.

I should have gone on the door and see what they are ours or opening and opening ours?

Where for an hour?

Back?

And I walked up.

They got me med and I came back and I was a little bit annoyed.

And then I thought, I just saw him walking around the corner and I looked at the ticket and I ran around the corner where he was.

He's like, he was like, go gone to guard us.

He was gone.

He couldn't it not to be seen anywhere.

And the next one I walked around and next so what was it?

What was a ticket for?

Because I had every right to be there.

Well it was.

Now it's one of those twenty four hour parking places.

But what happened was, I thought, no, I'm not happy with this because I was gonna get I was going to get a feed, I said.

So I was partly to get a feed there, get a feed there.

So I wasn't happy.

Next minute, I was walking up this out this that there's a right next to her.

They got all these signs and that.

I read the sign, and I read the sign and I thought, no, my attentions were to get a feed.

The next minute there's another one and the next one.

I won't be rased.

I won't making any any racial comment to you.

Next minute, another guy comes around, not that other guy, and now that goes taller than another guy was quite short.

That's the taller guy.

And he comes out there, and he said, what are you doing?

I tried to find the guy I was walking around there.

I started walking in the car park.

I said, well, I'm trying to find the guy who gave my ticket.

And he said, i'll be monitors.

I said, he this is a twenty four hour parking place here, and I said, I'm not happy.

I said, open now, I'm going.

To go have a feed in there.

I'm hoping you're going to let me off for what I'm going to do.

So cut along.

Story short was, they said, oh no, the tickets being issued now, sorry, you're going to pay it.

I said, I'm not happy with this.

They get along a short I walked away and I went in and got a feed in there.

Then it was quite funny.

I was.

Then I told the situation is.

I said, I came here to get a feed.

You were in open.

I came back.

I told him my story.

That's about the map.

I came back and you were open.

I'm still going to get my food, which I which my attention was.

And then the lady said here, I know that it's not really fee I know, but she is only behind the counter.

And I said, there's any manager here at all on deck, you know, fair enough?

I was just coincident.

Was the area the area manager of Burger king right?

And I said, I told my story.

I said, it's not doing your your customer.

Is any good that what they've just.

Done to me?

I said, it's bad.

I won't come back here again because if I can't know if you're going to ping me for parking and I've come me to buy and food from you, and you're scaring me off.

I won't come back here again.

And she said, I excuse me, said, oh, let you off this ticket.

So like you see they go earlier tonight, I heard a lot of people getting off.

You go back to the momber fighter.

I stood up, cheered at.

She was quite good.

You took my details, took the photocopy of my photo of the of the tickets, and then she said, oh, you'll hear it back from me or ring me.

She gave me.

She says, really nice, really helpful lady she was.

And then she said, if you'll probably get let off, but if you don't hear from them, I'll tell your story to them.

And then fair enough, they actually gave me.

They actually gave me a letter back and said you be leed off with that ticket, and you wouldn't believe it when you go up there, you go there up that lane.

This seeby's a big there on this other side of the building where the kmart and that burger king, and they've got a big these tinted windows that they're sitting there like more porks.

They're blatantly stealing from people at their Marcus.

It's I don't know how they could do.

A job like that.

Yeah, I can't work it out.

It's horrible.

You know, I said to these people you want people, I've a ount of town.

I'm going to spread this around.

Now, be wary of Hamilton where you park, because I like more porks are sitting.

It's almost like sitting on the pop on the top of the building.

When you leave, they'll jump on your bonnet almost.

They'll know what they're doing.

And as soon as Joe the Limonal should be there, they sting.

With those fifteen minutes you were there before before the booger king opened, right, had you know?

Had you is that how long you were there for?

Read about fifty minutes by the time I walked for an It must.

Have before.

You're supposed to put money and meters are you're supposed to tapping out?

Says sort of like free parking there, you know, I said three ninety minutes park And I was looking at that sign when I actually went to go to get my map.

And I'll be I'll be fine.

I thought, three three ninety minute parking, that'll be I'll be, I'll be fine.

Stall I got back and it wasn't at all.

I mean you colong story short was, yeah, that was and I's but basically what as I said, it's not on I said, and she said, I said, I'm gonna buy I'm gonna buy some food here, which I did.

I got the receipt for that, so she I took a photo shot of that, and she took a photo shot of as well, so that basically blew them out of the door.

I think they got a smack on their hand.

I think basically saying be a bit more lean on how you chy was not doing us any good.

Good story, Pete, thanks so much.

Ten away from twelve.

I fell asleep.

Did you hear that?

Yeah that's bad, isn't it?

Yeah?

Yeah, sorry Pete, but yeah, good thing you came was troubled the funk at the well for us.

I'm asleep.

Oh boy, love your show.

Marcus with a talk time about the department stores closed down and just reminded me of how special it felt the eighties to shop and these doors of special and Aukleer as a child doing our special Christmas shopping trip the old Farmer's store on Hobson Street in the Smith and Goey's also and the area You've been served series.

I'm sure a lot of listeners would have loved too, as we did have a great weekend.

Sam Pete deserves a ticket for being a planker.

Blah blah, Oh my god, that guys tell that through before I talk back to the rerun.

You know what I've heard it.

I stidn't understand it fully way got the ticket or didn't get the ticket that when he diagrams or an animated version of it, Marcus, the parking pilarva is a real thing.

This isn't Hamilton.

They sit in their cars waiting, then spring out and back in their cars before you can find them.

They work in pears and most of offshore and cannot enforce the find Just ignore it.

The offshore one goes away outter six months.

The old Burger King I like it where you so?

I need an old physical map.

Heeds are physical map.

It's a bit I like.

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