Over the last several weeks, it seems Lincolnshire County Council has been conducting traffic surveys and census's.
I have noticed that people in high visibilty jackets have been sitting in their cars, parked just off the road with their clip boards, marking down things and keeping notes, watching the citizens as they go about their law abiding day. In one car park there were 4 cars with traffic survey men in them. I wonder how much its has cost? No doubt once all this data has been collected, and bundled into statistics and demographics, they will come up with some kind of scheme (read tax) to squeeze the motorist even further.
Also, there have been several traffic census's. I have personally been canvassed 5 times. They hand out these stupid questionaires at rush hour times and ask all kinds of impersonal questions. What has it got to do with them where I started my journey, or what was my reason for being there.
Smacks of Big Brother to me.
Anyway, Spunk Monkey came up with the perfect antidote (see above, click on the image to see the questions). He posted it off, so some sad government spy will have the pleasure of opening up this :-D Also, if they tally up the reference number in the corner with the car registration, thats ok, cos its not my survey sheet!
Question 10 refers to household income. Quite frankly they can f*ck right off. How will they use this data? Is Lincoln about to get its own 'congestion charge' I wonder
14 comments:
oh mark you have disappointed me, i have always thought we had very similar minds when it came to creating mischief, but you havent even done the one thing that could have really pissed them off. were you not always taught to read the small print at the bottom, if you had you would have seen the bit where it said tear in half and return to the freepost address, why the hell didnt you follow the simple instructions.lol. that would have been priceless.
Well, it was sent back to them, so I reckon thats good enough :-)
but if you had torn it in half first, you would have felt so much better to know you had done it properly, were you not always taught if a jobs worth doing its worth doing well. lol.
Well Im sure there will be others, if I get one by Sunday, I'll let you post it off :-)
great, cant wait to tear it up.
now your just been silly.........................i love it
Heh heh, Id prefer just to tell them to suck my stump :-D
Maybe the fantastic optical zoom on a modern day satelitte will be able to find your stump. Failing that try an electron microscope.
And maybe one day, modern science will be able to give you a personality, you must be rubbing your hands with glee about the new face transplant technolgy, come to think of it, so must Rob :-D
i was eating when i read that last comment, i have just spat all my dinner over my keyboard and nearly died from choking, stop it you two. i dont think it was funny at all mark.lol. ;0)
Until Angela can hold a civil tongue, her comments wont be published on this blog. This is not a mud slinging contest Angela. I hope you're more diplomatic in your dealings with people in the real world.
tut tut angela, you have upset him, you should learn how to act civil, me and evo will give you lessons, we are the most polite people you could ever meet, we never argue, slag each other off or upset anyone.
I sometimes worry that we are repressing our innermost feelings though Phil, perhaps we should learn to be more direct.
maybe we should, skinny.
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