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Think of it as if you were a traffic warden.

Traffic warden were not sent out at all for security reasons.

A traffic warden who tried to stop them was knocked to the ground.

Traffic wardens, who seemed to have disappeared years ago, were out in force.

After that, he left football management completely, and later worked as a traffic warden.

A traffic warden is at the sharp end of the twentieth century guy.

I called on a conveniently passing traffic warden to help me out.

It is about a female traffic warden and the narrator's affection for her.

I'm a traffic warden, and I am wicked with a ticket, girl, all right?

The council estimates it could take a year to put new traffic wardens back on the streets.

I'm a traffic warden, I have people trying to kill me every day.'

He often acts as a bespectacled policeman or traffic warden.

Paris has no municipal police force, although it does have its own brigade of traffic wardens.

There was a woman traffic warden leaning down at the Volkswagen window, talking to the driver.

Now my only hope was that the late-night traffic wardens might not be too vigilant.

Traffic wardens have been criticised in a report which says they're not giving out enough tickets.

"He's only a traffic warden, and you're parked in a disabled space.

You see it in nature all the time with bees, frogs, snakes and traffic wardens.

A traffic warden, finding an empty car, gave the Vicar a parking ticket.

The figure also includes industrial staff such as traffic wardens, drivers and cleaners.

Within three minutes a traffic warden had issued the vehicle with a parking ticket and called for its removal.

Why do the traffic wardens let this double-parking continue?

Traffic wardens and police patrols have been told to watch for motorists who might attempt to break the rules.

They saw red when he got away with the offence by waving his warrant card at a traffic warden.

They had parked their cars everywhere and traffic wardens were out in force, taking numbers, leaving tickets.

She's a meter maid and she knocks off at six.

Could you ask about the jacket and warn the meter maid?

Her day job is initially as a meter maid, but she later becomes a police officer.

The meter maid looks anxiously at her rack of charges.

Soon after came meter maids who, because they were paid less than police officers, increased city revenues further.

Justin asks when he and Darnell finally find him, working as a meter maid.

Coming up the street was the three-wheeled utility vehicle the police used for the meter maid.

It was an invitation for a parking ticket, but maybe all the meter maids had gone home by then.

The moniker is a reference to the Beatles song about a meter maid.

And you, Boxer, you're going to be busted down to meter maid."

The cops arrived then, two of them on scooters, looking like meter maids.

The meter maid is busy writing Harry a ticket.

Doing away with meter maids would be a further saving and would also reduce the city's stress level.

Later, his luck changes when a meter maid who is about to write him a ticket falls in love with him instead.

Here they make me a meter maid.

There were even production numbers planned involving "meter maids" and "rockers".

The meter maid snorted, returned to her buggy, and putt-putted away.

"In New York, I would have had to give my life to hang out with a meter maid," he said.

"If a tough meter maid puts the arm on you, Sonny, just scream and I'll come running."

These police were not meter maids.

In 1960, New York City hired its first crew of "meter maids"; all were women.

A Meter maid attempts to give a parking ticket to an aggressive alcoholic who has just arrived with three more dimes.

(One of them even moonlights as a meter maid.)

A man who called a meter maid an epithet and apologized immediately afterward is nevertheless forced to pay civil damages to the woman.

In this town, with its steady-as-she-goes ethos, nothing ruffles residents quite like a lurking meter maid.