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St Peters Fame Academy - Inconsiderate Parking 1

This young lady parked her car on the pavement in Apollo Close in St Peters on May 3rd 2007. She prevented rubbish being collected from the residents of Apollo Close and Atlas Court.

Nothing new for her... as she had done the same thing the previous week which meant residents had to tolerate the stench of piled up rubbish, overflowing bins and blocked chutes until the biffa truck could navigate the bend when her car was parked on the pavement over which it slightly needs to impinge due to cars parked legally on the other side of the road.

She did this because she said "it was convenient for her to park there and she was in a rush." Well it cost here £60 courtesy of a fixed penalty notice.

It is hoped that this will encourage her personally to park properly in future as well as to concentrate the minds of others.

We invite everyone else who chooses to park their cars inconsiderately and illegally in St Peters, or others who are inclined to behave in a way that detrimentally effects this community to think long and hard about the example made here.

As with the example made of Zag who chose to write on our walls... this will not be a one off event.

We intend to identify and make examples of others in the same way if necessary.

Article Written by Mel
Photography by Mel
Date Written May 3rd 2007
Date last Modified March 9th 2008
Status: Article in Progress

St Peters Fame Academy - ZAG (Graffiti Vandal)

This new website has worldwide access. Server logs currently indicate several hundred clicks per day.

It is our anticipation that once all the major search engines, online directories and forums lock onto this site that the unique clicks per day will reach 5 or even 6 digits for any 24 hr period.

We are intensively using every known website promotion technique and exploit in order to bring that about.

In addition to that we intend to be most imaginative and creative indeed in promoting this site locally so that reach and penetration of the site into the local community in St Peters and Leicester will be sustained, profound and far reaching.

Basically, this means an awful lot of people will visit this site. Many of whom, you know and who know and recognised you if we put your photo on here.

Click here for Fame Academy Gallery 1 - Graffiti - Highfields Library

Be warned... we will make you famous.

Therefore understand and know at least this... that if you

• Flytip your refuse into the midst of this community
• Blight our neighbourhood with graffiti
• Deal Drugs
• Park Illegally or Inconsiderately
• Engage in other criminal damage
• Drop litter
  

This will effect you now and in the future. The whole community will be see your photograph on here now and for many years to come. This will without doubt, effect your employment and other important life prospects.

Determined to identify and prosecute...

We will positively bring to bear all the technology and resources we can muster and will stop at nothing to have you identified and have you prosecuted.

Some of us hold the view that it is only by making an example of such people and dealing extremely robustly indeed with "low level" offences, that this problem will ever diminish. We intend to put this theory to the test.

The writing is on the wall for those who fly tip drop litter or write on our walls. And that message is that St Peters is no longer a neighbourhood that is permissive and passive to these issues.

Why report anti social behaviour?

St Peters has an enviably low level of serious crime. The perception is one of relative safety from serious crime.

However the sum total of the low level crime such as graffiti, criminal damage, flytipping and litter in St Peters is such that net benefits on community safety perceptions from the low numbers of serious offences is all but cancelled out.

It is not enough to keep the lid on serious offence levels if we are over run and blighted by minor crime.

A true sense of community safety can never be realised until the back is broken on the rampant epidemic of low level offences.

To do this the whole community must engage and play a part.

How to play our part...

If you see or are aware of anti social behaviour in St Peters it is important to report it and have it dealt with.

However you can no longer that by calling 101

Please contact us at stpetersnm.com if you have contacted Leicester City Council or the police and find them unreponsive.