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Traffic Wardens
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Traffic wardens are civilian staff employed by the police to enforce parking laws. Their handiwork can be seen if you ever park in a prohibited area or let your meter run out for just one... damn... second! The name "traffic warden" is most common in the United Kingdom. In America, the typical disparaging term is "meter maid" (used for either gender), though their official name in their municipality might be something like "parking enforcement officer." Since the job is entirely limited to handing out tickets for breaking minor laws that most people feel immune to, they've acquired a reputation for being burdensome, petty and obnoxious, providing little benefit to society and generally just making things worse for everyone. Because of the hate, they're typically portrayed negatively. Of course, this is often shown to create a Vicious Cycle, where traffic wardens quickly become aggressive and mean because of the way they're treated by the public. If a traffic warden shows up in media, expect tempers to be lost and arguments to follow. Contrast with Meddlesome Patrolman. |
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Parking Wars is an A&E Reality Show about parking enforcement, which shows their side of the story. | |
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Mister Rogers once got ticketed because a traffic cop showed up while he was getting change for the meter. He then turned it into an episode where he went to traffic court. | |
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Harry and Paul features Parking Pataweyo, a cross between Postman Pat and a traffic warden, who lies in wait to issue people with tickets the second their parking permit runs out. In Pataweyo's last sketch his colleague gives him a parking ticket on his day off. | |
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In The World Is Not Enough, James Bond splashes two wardens (played by those featured in Clampers) in a tight turn with the Q-Boat. Many cinema audiences in the UK cheered at this scene. Amusingly, the wardens were not told just how wet they were going to get (a small reservoir worth of water soaks them). | |
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When Sergeant Colon and Corporal Nobbs found themselves in charge of the Discworld-equivalent of this department ("A chance to be 'self-financing' and not be shot at"), the over-zealous clamping policy went so far as to include buildings as targets, including the Opera House and the Patrician's Palace. It could be argued that buildings do impede the flow of traffic somewhat.... Of course, Colon is a reasonable man and recognizes that Vetinari was parked on business. He's also willing to overlook the offense if the accused presents credible evidence of a free pint, a free meal, and/or information. Possibly the best trick they pulled (subsequently busted by Vetinari) was for Nobby to disguise himself as an old woman and cross the road extremely slowly in front of oncoming traffic, getting people to stop long enough that Colon could ticket them. | |
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One sketch on The Benny Hill Show features a war between the traffic wardens and the street sweepers. Hill's character is a sweeper who is winning the war for his side when he notices that one of the wardens is a pretty girl, so he negotiates a truce. | |
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Red Dwarf: In the episode "Camille", Lister tries to break Kryten's programming and teach him to lie. Succeeding, Kryten describes a banana as a "small, off-duty Czechoslovakian traffic warden", which was changed to Tasmanian in the Czech dub, perhaps because that country does not have them. In the episode "Back to Reality", the crew wake up to find that Red Dwarf was a virtual reality program. Kryten's real identity turns out to be "Agent Jack Bullit of cybernautics". He assumes that he must be a Cowboy Cop, but Rimmer counters that maybe he's just a traffic warden with a ridiculously macho name. The latter option is later confirmed when they run into a real cop (of the fascist police state they're in). |
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George Roper from George & Mildred was employed as a traffic warden for a time (in keeping with his Butt-Monkey status). | |
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This is Judy Hopps' first posting as a police officer in Zootopia. Being a rabbit, she uses her naturally sharp hearing to ticket vehicles within seconds of their meter expiring. Unfortunately, Surprisingly Realistic Outcome takes hold and by the the next day, Judy finds herself swamped with complaints from the citizenry for her zealousness in ticketing them. | |
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One episode of Candid Camera featured a car with a loose windscreen, which fell in and smashed when the traffic warden tried to attach a ticket. | |
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London's Burning: A traffic warden is unwise enough to wheel-clamp a vehicle driven by three tough-guy types, who don't take it very well and leave him chained to some nearby railings with three of his own clamps, as well as clamping his van and throwing the keys down a nearby drain for good measure. Neither the men of Blue Watch nor the police officer who initially responded bother to hide their amusement. | |
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Gaston Lagaffe: Gaston's (who interprets No Parking Allowed signs as parking spots no-one ever occupies) longtime foe Longtarin, who while an actual cop, seemingly lives only to give parking tickets. Their rivalry sometimes reaches escalating prank war proportions. A one-panel gag shows Gaston having crashed his car into a parking meter... and putting a coin in it anyway, under Longtarin's glare. One strip has Gaston deploy a robot with a buzzsaw that starts cutting down the meter. When Longtarin confiscates it, Gaston retaliates with a dog-shaped robot that pees on the meter. Revolted by its sheer tastelessness, Longtarin turns his back on it, so he doesn't see the dog is little more than a four-legged reservoir of concentrated acid. One strip has Longtarin lying in wait for the meter to expire with seconds left to go... then Gaston's gull flaps down with a coin in its beak, inserts it, and flies off, reducing Longtarin to tears. Longtarin has a Catchphrase: "Is that a traffic sign or a giant lollipop?" Naturally, Gaston uses it against him. Gaston leaves a gas reservoir in his car but forgets to close it. Longtarin approaches to write it up... and the car lifts off in front of him, driving him a to a nervous breakdown. Gaston parks under a tree in front of a No Parking sign, right under Longtarin's nose. As the patrolman readies his notebook, Gaston reassures him, hooks the car's roof to a chain dangling from the tree, then hauls it straight up, revealing he'd installed a pulley system on the tree. Longtarin once set up a parking meter on a No Parking sign, hitting Gaston with two tickets at once. |
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In Ms. Tree, the title character originally worked as a parking attendant who met her future husband when she ticketed him. Furthermore, she was frustrated enough being relegated to that position that she accepted his offer to work for him instead. | |
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The Outlaws IS Coming!: As part of the Anachronism Stew, the Wild West town of Caspar, Wyoming has parking limits. A meter maid in a buggy passes by, marking all of the wagon wheels and legs of the horses parked along the street. As soon as she is gone, all of the cowboys run out of the saloon and wiped the paint of their horses' legs. | |
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In Good Omens the angel and demon protagonists both come upon a traffic warden writing a ticket, and both assume traffic wardens were created by the other's faction. | |
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One of Denis Norden's monologues on My Word! has him meeting an old girlfriend who is now "walking the streets", by which he turns out to mean she's a traffic warden. The reveal that he still carries a packet of the Curiously Strong Peppermints that were a part of their courtship encourages her to overlook that he's overrun his parking meter. He doesn't tell her that he's been feeding them into the meter, because they happen to be the same size as a 10p coin. | |
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The appropriately-named Meter Maid, one of the playable drivers in Twisted Metal 4. In her ending, she doesn't claim her wish from Sweet Tooth, but reveals that she entered the tournament just so she could issue him the fine for the massive amount of damage the Twisted Metal competition has caused. | |
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In the 2000 film version of Bedazzled, the Devil, in a Evil Is Petty moment, used her powers to make some parking meters expire early and then, as a meter maid, gave the cars tickets. | |
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The BBC nuclear holocaust drama Threads famously used a picture of an armed and injured traffic warden◊ for its publicity stills to suitably chilling effect. | |
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The film Murder Party stars Chris Hawley, a lonely loser and Extreme Doormat who admits (under Truth Serum) that he works as a traffic warden, makes less than $30,000 a year, and spends each day making people's days worse. | |
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One sketch/bit on Trigger Happy TV featured a prank where the actor disguised as a Traffic Warden approaches a man either stopped at a red light or stop sign to tell him he can't park there. When the driver insists he's just stopped and not parked, the warden warns him not to get belligerent and starts writing up a fake ticket. | |
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Parodied in The Chaser's War On Everything, where Julian Morrow, as the "Citizen's Infringement Officer" went around giving tickets for things such as stupid baby names instead. | |
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One sidequest in The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero has the main characters (who are cops) checking parking registrations and ticketing illegally parked vehicles. | |
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In Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson takes a lot of shots at them. | |
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Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels has a traffic warden held prisoner by the criminals and beaten up, then recovered by the heroes — who can't resist beating him up themselves. | |
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The Tomorrow People (1973) story The Doomsday Men featured a traffic warden as a Running Gag. In his first appearance, he tries to put a parking ticket on a van belonging to a friend of the TPs, only for the van to teleport away before he has a chance. He later gets fired after trying to prove to his boss that there is a disappearing van, and in his final appearance, he jumps in a river. | |
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In the season three opener of Primeval, a traffic warden gets killed. | |
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