Malta is ours, so we can do what we please
There a disturbance in Valletta’s St Paul Street this morning when a car parked on the pavement jammed up all incoming traffic.
The police arrived, and Transport Malta personnel lifted the car further to the side so that the traffic could get through.
Displayed on the windscreen is a police permit issued to journalists, allowing them to “park in restricted areas in exceptional emergency cases when on official journalistic duties only” (incidentally, I don’t have one of those).
The individual is listed on the permit as one Ronnie Pellegrini, a journalist employed with Union Print Co Ltd. Union Print is the General Workers Union’s publishing arm, publishers of It-Torca and L-Orizzont.
Ronnie Pellegrini is employed with the General Workers Union as an official of some sort, but he is definitely not a journalist and he does not work for L-Orizzont and It-Torca.
He is a very close friend of Valletta 2018 chairman Jason Micallef and he spends rather a lot of time hanging about with the Super One crowd and the young people at Forum Zghazagh Laburisti despite being in his late 50s. Maybe he sees himself as a sort of political mentor.
In the Golden Eighties, he was Lorry Sant’s chief sidekick, fixer and henchman, and stuck by him even after the 1987 change in government.
I’d say he knows exactly what was in that brown envelope with which Lorry Sant tried to blackmail the Mintoffs around 1992.
What nice people we’ve got calling the shots now – my, my, my.
I imagine that Toni Abela, Labour’s deputy leader, wasn’t the only one who found a pulizija Laburist. Ronnie Pellegrini must have found one too, to get that strict-issue permit when he doesn’t qualify for it.
Oh, and did you notice? It expired last January and he hasn’t bothered to renew, presumably because he can now park on the pavement wherever he likes, even when not reporting on a major crime scene for L-Orizzont.
In any case, that isn’t Ronnie Pellegrini’s car. He drives a smart, new BMW.
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And there are three little piggies looking on, not knowing what to do next.
Maaaaa, mela ma nwahhalhux citazzjoni? Dak Ronnie Pellegrini, ta. Isa, warrbu tlaqna qisna m’ghaddejniex minn hawn.
That Blue Kia remained there blocking the road for at least 35 minutes.
The car is rented and I bet Ronnie Pellegrini is not paying for it.
This morning the Police Band went marching through Republic Street at around 11.30 and the little piggy in the fluorescent vest was riding a Segway in front of the Police Band. That’s why he is wearing a vest and a white helmet.
Ronnie Pellegrini huwa wiehed minn dawk li hu indaqs aktar min haddiehor.
Yet, even if one has a special permit to ”park in restricted areas in exceptional emergency cases when on official journalistic duties only” – this does not mean that one can park in a way that he hinders access which could also be needed for emergency cases…. ex: if an ambulance had to rush through at that particular time….
Il- bankina taghna ilkoll.
Is that policeman biting his nails – he looks as if he doesn’t know what he has to do – stick a freakin fine to the windscreen.
Forsi kieku dawk il-Pulizija jtuha daqsxejn ta’ ‘puxxjatura’ lejn il-lemin, ghandu mnejn ikun jista’ jghaddi t-traffiku…
MALTA TAGHNA KOLLHA
Unless he has had it renewed and has given his old one to the owner of the Piccanto. A ‘park wherever you want’ card. Best Christmas present ever.
An expired card is the same as no card so tow the fucker.
That permit expired over 4 months ago and should have been returned to the police.
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That car is leased – number ends with a Z. The GWU pays for the lease, I suppose.
I was in traffic waiting! Probably I even have to pay since thanks to this car I had to wait for long. It was sooo frustrating.
So do not pay. Simply forward a complaint in writing and await an answer. Then after all isn’t Malta Taghna Lkoll?
Just look at the first policeman on the left biting his nails. Maaaa issa x’se naghmlu?