HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-11-02, Page 7Parking Tikkal's
British Verso
Visitors from ov..recas will
recognize London's parking me-
ters but if they expect a parking
ricket to follow the borne pattern
they will get a surprise. ;For the
British parking ticket is a typical
compromise with American and
continental methods. It is not a
notification that a fine has been
incurred, It is, to use the word-
ing on the ticket, a "Notice of
opportunity to pay a fixed penal-
ty." It is an invitation to accept
a penalty of £2. Those accus-
tomed to rougher justice --seeing
that the alternative is police
prosecution—might assume that
22 is the minimum fine and that
to delay payment would incur
the certain risk, failing a corn-
plete defense, of a higher penal-
ty. This however ,is not the
British way.
"Fines on the spot" for traffic
offenses have never appealed to
the British judicial system. It
was only after long enquiry and
debate that even the present
procedure for "punishment with-
out prosecution" was passed by
Parliament, So many safeguards
are now built into the system
that only where enforcement, by
"ticket" is accepted as being en-
tirely fair and reasonable has it
worked with any' success,
Wholesale enforcement of traf-
fic violations has long been ac-
cepted as impossible, but the
strict penalty ticket is its near-
est approach. With parked vehi-
cles it has been found to work
only where the registered owner
of the vehicle can be held finally
responsible. The difficulties and
delay in tracing drivers would
snake obstruction too easy. And
yet the British parking • ticket,
with its mild offer to settle with-
in 21 days and liability limited
to the driver only (if he can be
found), does work.
The efficiency test of the park-
ing ticket is the rate of voluntary
compliance. In Britain the sys-
,. . tern is at present being tried in
London and in two cities in the
North and Midlands—Blackpool
and Leicester. The London
scheme began just 12 months ago
—on September 19, 1960. Official
figures for the first eight months
of the scheme showed that only
some 60 per cent of the offenders
who received tickets complied
with them. Some 15 per cent
were excused payment and pro-
secutions were necessary in the
remainder.
But in Leicester things have
. been very different. There the
rate of compliance was 90 per
Cent and less than 8 per cent re-
quired prosecution. Why this big
difference? Shortly, it is that
tickets in London enforce meter
gone regulations — mainly for
waiting in restricted streets. A
high proportion of offenders con-
sider the ticket was "unfair," no
adequate warning of the restric-
tion being given in the streets
themselves. Leicester, •however,
has no meters and relies on "No
Waiting" and "Unilateral Wait-
ing" restrictions, fully advertised
by traffic signs. Motorists have
little excuse for illegal parking
and they accept the £2 penalty
without argument.
One ofthe exasperating things
about inflation is :that, even
though the price of • haircuts
keeps going up, they don't last
any longer,
If at first you don't succeed
you're like most other people.
MILKMAN—This is Ralph Thomas'
normal way of delivering milk
to the doors of his customers in
Poole, Dorset, England. The 27 -
year -old winner of the Dorset
high jump finds that he tan
work while he trains with leap.
ing success. In five years of de-
livering
milk in this unusual
manner, he has broken one
record, or rather, he has one
broken records one 'bottle.
ON CYCLES BUILT FOR WHO? — Seventeen policemen
make up this moving pyramid as they gather together atop
three heavy-duty motorcycles. They were taking port in the
West Berlin 1961 Police Show.
This -Jewel Theft
Was Really a Gem ,
Most jewel robberies are car-
ried out in orthodox style, with
a gang breaking into premises to
get their loot , .. like the $150,-
000 haul froma diamond mer-
chant off London's Hatton Gar-
den earlier this year,
But the coup engineered by
Raoul Baretti in 1926 was out-
standing in originality and auda-
city.
The car which drew up out-
side Martine's jewellery shop
in the rue de 1a Paix, Paris, was
of the best make. From it alight-
ed a stoutish, moustached and
impeccably -dressed middle-aged
man. _
Each year, he told the assist-
ant, he had bought his wife
some pearls as a birthday gift
to make up a necklace. Now he
would like a few more.
The customer spent a long
time examining pearls before
selecting ten of the best. Produc-
ing a card bearing the name of
one of France's most aristocratic
families, he asked to have the
pearls delivered to his home,
Martine's messenger was a
powerfully -built man skilled in
the use of firearms and equally
adept at fighting without wea-
pons. With the pearls and a -re-
volver in his pocket he arrived
at the customer's address.
A butler received him, led the
way to the..second floor and
rapped discreetly on a bedroom
door. .
As the door opened and the
messenger stepped inside, two
men pouncedon himand pin-
ioned his arms. He was forced
on to the bed, the men holding
his wrists and ankles.
Then a third man appeared.
He was the customer who had -
ordered the pearls. From the
messenger's pockets he removed
the revolver and the pearls.
After tying the messenger's
feet and hands. securelythe men
left, locking the door behind
them.
Soon afterwards, the doorwas
unlocked and a ball, dignified
stranger entered. After eying the,
messenger silently for a few mo-
ments, the tall man began ques- •
tinning him about his early life,
much as a psychiatrist might do.
The messenger almost scream-
ed at the man, reminding hient.
that the pearls' had been stolen
and what else could they want
of him; why this silly question-
ing?
Then, taking a grip on him-
self, the messenger explained'
about the missing pearls. Now
it was the tall man's turn to look
perplexed. He asked the mes-
senger for proof. He was told
to telephone' Martine's.
The tall man left, the room,
locking the door behind him, In
minutes he returned with the
two men who had seized the
messenger. Now, on the tall
man's orders, they freed him
Shortly the police arrived, to-
gether with executive members
of Martine's. Then the fantastic
story was told,
Once graced by aristocrats, the
house was now a home for the
mentally deranged. Only the day
before, the customer (later iden-
tified as Raoul Baretti) game,
as he said, to arrange for an
examination of his brother, ex-
plaining that • he was . suffering
from the delusion that he had
a package of pearls, worth near-
ly $100,000, to deliver and be-
lieved that everyone was p,an-
ning to rob him.
Baretti explained that the fa-
mily had all agreed that this
brother should be confined to
this private home to see if he
could be cured,
Asked by the proprietor how
Baretti could persuade his bro-
ther to visit the home, Baretti
said he would tell him that . the
proprietor was interested in pur-
chasing his pearls,
In reality,' Baretti assured the
doctor, the "pearls" were actu-
ally pebbles his brother had
picked up in the street.
Baretti concluded by saying
he would be present when his
brother arrived and that attend-
ants must seize . his brother and
tie• him before he became dan-
gerously violent, He, Baretti,
would relieve him of the load-
ed revolver he always carried
and, also the box of pearls:
Baretti would -then leave, al-
lowing the doctor to examine
his brotl}er and calling the next
day for the medical report.
The ingenious and original
plan worked perfectly, but from
descriptions supplied by wit-
nesses the police identified the
swindler as Raoul Baretti, inter-
national jewel thief.
Eventually he was traced to
Switzerland wherehe was liv-
ing luxuriously on the proceeds.
Brought to trial on April 12th,
1926, Baretti was sentenced to
fifteen years in prison. But as he
had a serious heart condition, the
rigours of prison life were too
much for him. He died less than
two years later.
Here's A Whale
Of A Story
This is the biggest fish story
I have ever told, or ever expect
to. It Is a whale of a story, liter-
ally,
iterally, and It .is true,
It -started four years ago
when one of our Dalmatians
brought in 'a dead owl it had
stirred up in the woods. It was
a beautiful specimen, and we
put it in a brown paper bag and
popped it in the deep freeze,
hoping to find a taxidermist to
mount' it for us. '
Of course we wanted the best
job possible done in stuffing and
Mounting this owl; and' so the
next morning, I to o k it, still
wrapped in brown paper bag,
Into Washington to the' office.
a
MERRY MENAGERIE
"One Consolation: we never
have to worry what a blind
date will look like?"
At noon I slipped over to the
Smithsonian Institution, or ra-
ther the natural history build-
ing, which, is directly across the.
mall from the Smithsonian,
Washington guidebooks say this
building contains "The world's
largest collections of anthropolo-
gical, biological, and geographi-
cal material relating to the Unit-
ed States and its possessions,"
And that is no figure of speech.
The attics, basements, and
workshops that fill the build-
ing's courts;are stuffed with spe-
cimens and displays that visitors
never see or know exist, If there,
are 17,000,0b0 specimens on dis-
play, as guides claim, there must
be 10 times that number hid-
-den from the public eye. My
journey to the Smithsonian's
natural history building was, of
course, to see if their workmen
would stuff the owl for me.
I finally found the man I
wanted in a workshop in the
east court; and, after inducing
him to leave a half -stuffed cock-
atoo, field mouse, gazelle, and
gila monster, made a deal with
him to stuff my owl after hours,
(Now, at last, we come to the
whale.)
I returned in a month, was
delighted with my owl, and be-
fore leaving — to make small
talk — said; "You wouldn't have
a few unwanted specimens —
beast, bird, or fish, I don't care
— to go with my owl' on my
mantel over my fireplace?"
"Why, of course," the taxi-
dermist replied, 'practically caus-
ing me to fall over the half -
stuffed gila monster, or was it
the gazelle? Then, for a long
moment looking at me, he said
in a beseeching voice: "You
couldn't use a whale could you?"
Seldom, 1 e t me s a y, am I
speechless, but I was then,
writes Neal Stanford in the
Christian Science Monitor.
He, taking my silence for con-
sent, hurried on to say that the
museum was going to get a new
whale before long; that its 78 -
foot sulphur -bottom whale (that
it had been displaying ever since
the Chicago World's Fair — and
I mean the one in 1893) was
about ready for thediscard: and
would I be interested?
There was only one catch, he
added. I would have to cart it
away,
Now I have a small lake on
my property, covering about five
acres, and for just the smallest
fraction of a second I toy ed
with the idea of accepting the
whale, putting it in mylake,
and, at regular intervals, con-
trolled by mechanical devices,
letting it submerge, then break
to the surface and spout a
mighty geyser of water.
But I had to give it up.
How was I to get a 78 -foot
whale out to my place in Lees-
burg, Virginia, 40 miles from
Washington? I thought of a
trailer, but no trailer is equipped
to haul 78 -foot whales. Next, I
thought of the good old Pete.;
mac, just ' blocks from the
Smithsonian and only two mile
from my home in Virginia. May-
be I could float it up the river.
But then I remembered the falls
that just north of Washington
make the river impassable.
And so, I reluctantly said: "No
thank you. I don't see how I
can accept your whale,"
This all comes back to me
now; for the Smithsonian's new
whale will shortly be ready for
display. It is a 97 -foot blue
whale and is being so realistic-
ally displayed that when. I went
over to see it this week I had
the feeling it was alive and just
about ready to dive,
My own, whale (•I will always
call it "mine"), the old 78 -foot'
sulphur -bottom, was still on dis-
play, but I didn't have the cour-
age to take a look at it,
* * +a
Ed. Note — To save readers'
time, paper and postage stamps
we might say that Mr. Stanford
has already been informed that
a whale is NOT a fish!
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