The Parking Ticket Awards

The Parking Ticket Awards
Author: Barrie Segal
Publisher: Anova Books
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2007-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781906032029

This book is enough to drive you parking mad. It's bad enough to return to your parked car to find a ticket stuck on your car windscreen. But what if you've still got an hour left on your permit, but the traffic warden decides to pre-emptively strike, as he thinks you'll go over? Or if your car is sat there because it has broken down? Or if your car isn't a car at all, but a bus, a rabbit hutch or a dead cow? Barrie Segal is 'the UK's leading parking ticket expert' according to Top Gear's Richard Hammond. In 'The Parking Ticket Awards', he has trawled through his vast collection of parking ticket stories to reveal the worst and weirdest traffic warden behaviour. The stories include - the dead cows ticketed as 'unattended vehicles'; the stolen car that was left as a burnt out wreck, and ticketed; the National Blood Service van that was ticketed as people donated blood inside; the bus that picked up both passengers...and a ticket; the van driver who threw his parking ticket on the pavement in disgust...only to be fined for littering; and, how even celebs like Madonna, Jude Law and Kate Middleton found themselves on the wrong side of the law. So park yourself down and indulge yourself in this hilarious compendium of traffic warden tales - it will be just the ticket.

Barmy Britain - Bizarre and True Stories From Across the Nation

Barmy Britain - Bizarre and True Stories From Across the Nation
Author: Jack Crossley
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2008-11-03
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1857829247

A hilarious compendium of all that's weird and wonderful about life in the British Isles - the eccentric, bizarre bureaucracy and outright oddity reported over the last year by the nation's newspapers, including: Guardian headline, 'Man with false leg hit with toilet lid.'; The Astrological Magazine, 'announces that it is to cease due to unforeseen circumstances.' Jack Crossley spent some 40 years in Fleet Street and has compiled this laugh-out-loud collection of anecdotes and strange goings-on which sound so outlandish you certainly couldn't make them up.

Bondage: Campus Parking Ticket Roundup 2

Bondage: Campus Parking Ticket Roundup 2
Author: Felix Dartmouth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2018-02-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781980403272

The Bondage Campus Parking Ticket Roundup series continues with Book #2 on amazon.com Kindle program!There was a continued crisis at the small Texas teacher's college - millions of dollars of unpaid parking tickets had gone unpaid! As the newly hired Deputy of Police faced the Board of Directors, it was clear that he must develop and execute a plan which would bring these much-needed funds into the school coffers.In a student body of well-to-do young women, he realized the sensitivity of the matter. In big cities, the formula for collecting fines was to arrest and jail the scofflaws, and upon payment of the fines, the offender would be released. Surely, he voiced to the Board, this would not be appropriate for these future Texas teachers.The editor of the campus newspaper took notice of the circulation increase possibilities of images of the arrests of the beautiful young collegiate appearing on his front page and the corresponding advertising revenue. He was delighted when young Juana, a Hispanic beauty-content winner and one of his best reports volunteered to go undercover as a bound inmate! Will her sacrifice in submitting to prison yield her the increase in reputation that she desires?The Board of Directors at the school approves a purchase of ball-gags, transport belts, and additional modular jail cells to house the young women under arrest. Will their plans to keep arresting the young women of the college bring in the additional revenues they need?Billy Marks and a handsome young deputy is assigned to transport 4 chained women up to the State Prison for women. Can he keep these for troublesome female prisoners chained and gagged until they are safely locked behind bars?And, let's not forget the lovely virgin, Erica Barton. She is about to marry her long-time love Tom, who is now having an affair with her slutty maid-of-honor Lisa. Will Erica lose her virginity in a forced conjugal visit with her unfaithful husband?All these adventures and much more are yours for the reading in "Campus Parking Ticket 2"!Yours,Felix Dartmouth

The Motorist's Guide to Parking Tickets

The Motorist's Guide to Parking Tickets
Author: John Squires
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2004
Genre: Automobile parking
ISBN: 1904744214

Written by an ex-local government officer with over 25 years experience in traffic management and parking, this guide is designed to help motorists avoid parking tickets and how to challenge any that have been incorrectly or unfairly issued.

Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner)

Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner)
Author: Yu Miri
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2021-06-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593187520

WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo. Kazu's life in the city began and ended in that park; he arrived there to work as a laborer in the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and ended his days living in the vast homeless village in the park, traumatized by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and shattered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics. Through Kazu's eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him and learn the intimate details of his personal story, how loss and society's inequalities and constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty and grace just out of reach. A powerful masterwork from one of Japan's most brilliant outsider writers, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times and a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis.

A Dictionary of Cinema Quotations from Filmmakers and Critics

A Dictionary of Cinema Quotations from Filmmakers and Critics
Author: Stephen M. Ringler
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2008-05-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786437634

"The cinema isn't a slice of life, it's a slice of cake"--Alfred Hitchcock. "If you make a popular movie, you start to think where have I failed?"--Woody Allen. "A film is the world in an hour and a half"--Jean-Luc Godard. "I think you have to be slightly psychopathic to make movies"--David Cronenberg. This compendium contains more than 3,400 quotations from filmmakers and critics discussing their craft. About 1,850 film people are included--Bunuel, Capra, Chaplin, Disney, Fellini, Fitzgerald, Griffith, Kael, Kurasawa, Pathe, Sarris, Schwarzenegger, Spielberg, Waters and Welles among them. The quotations are arranged under 31 topics such as acting, animation, audience, budget, casting, critics, costume design, directing, locations, reviews, screenwriting, special effects and stardom. Indexing by filmmakers (or critics), by film titles and by narrow subjects provides a rich array of points of access.

The Crazy Parking Ticket Awards

The Crazy Parking Ticket Awards
Author: Barrie Segal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2017-12-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781973487630

This book is enough to drive you parking mad. It's bad enough to return to your parked car to find a ticket stuck on your car windscreen. But what if you've still got an hour left on your permit, but the traffic warden decides to pre-emptively strike, as he thinks you'll go over? Or if your car is sat there because it has broken down? Or if your car isn't a car at all, but a bus, a rabbit hutch or a dead cow? Barrie Segal is 'the UK's leading parking ticket expert' according to Top Gear's Richard Hammond. In 'The Parking Ticket Awards', he has trawled through his vast collection of parking ticket stories to reveal the worst and weirdest traffic warden behaviour. The stories include - the dead cows ticketed as 'unattended vehicles'; the stolen car that was left as a burnt out wreck, and ticketed; the National Blood Service van that was ticketed as people donated blood inside; the bus that picked up both passengers...and a ticket; the van driver who threw his parking ticket on the pavement in disgust...only to be fined for littering; and, how even celebrities like Madonna, Jude Law and Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge found themselves on the wrong side of the law. So park yourself down and indulge yourself in this hilarious compendium of traffic warden tales - it will be just the ticket.

Bolivar

Bolivar
Author: Sean Rubin
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1613987951

Going extinct isn't for everyone. Sybil knows that there is something off about her next door neighbor, but she can't seem to get anyone to believe her. Everyone is so busy going about their days in the busy streets of New York City that they don't notice Bolivar. They don't notice his odd height, his tiny arms, or his long tail. No one but Sybil sees that Bolivar is a dinosaur. When an unlikely parking ticket pulls Bolivar into an adventure from City Hall to New York's Natural History Museum, he must finally make a choice: continue to live unnoticed, or let the city see who he really is.