What not to do with your parking ticket.

Excellent, but who is going to police it? the public with their mobile phones?
our council cant even send someone to move fly tipped rubbish from the streets!
 
AHILL said:
Excellent, but who is going to police it? the public with their mobile phones?
our council cant even send someone to move fly tipped rubbish from the streets!
Click to expand...

It's a light news story, not a call for a shift in public policy. :rolleyes:
 
Littering with anything that has any of your personal details on it is rather foolish!

My pet littering hate is bloody fag ends, especially outside pubs where people often seem to use the drains as an tab end receptacle. Fine until the rain comes and the drain's blocked with the bloody things. Oh, and when people lob them out of their car window still lit. Bad enough in town, worse on the open road (even been on a bike and been hit by one? Fun it is not!) and the suspected cause of many, many fires in the countryside.
 
Nod said:
Littering with anything that has any of your personal details on it is rather foolish!

My pet littering hate is bloody fag ends, especially outside pubs where people often seem to use the drains as an tab end receptacle. Fine until the rain comes and the drain's blocked with the bloody things. Oh, and when people lob them out of their car window still lit. Bad enough in town, worse on the open road (even been on a bike and been hit by one? Fun it is not!) and the suspected cause of many, many fires in the countryside.
Click to expand...

And apparently the cause of a muck heap fire that has now been burning for months about 2 miles from my house. It's literally smouldering away and is still huge.
 
Going past the Mirror printing works this morning it looked like there had been an explosion! Nobody from the works had been sent out to retrieve all the litter, which had obviously dropped off a delivery van.
 
I've never paid a parking fine in my life and don't intend to neither.
 
I've only ever been issued one.
My own fault.
I paid it at the lower rate.
No problem with it.
 
I've had 3 that I can remember. One was rescinded since the ticket was obscured by condensation on the windscreen (fortunately, the issuing traffic warden was coming back as I got back to the car so I could show her the ticket in situ. She made a note in her book and I wrote the letter.), one was in a 30 minute slot among many 2 hour ones - my fault so paid without quibbling and one was after parking, I bumped into a friend and we had a very liquid lunch and I clean forgot about the car! Again, 100% my fault so paid up. There was another incident but it was someone else who got the ticket! The last time I had parked in that particular area, parking was free between October 1 and March 31 but when I was taken back there, they had changed it to pay and display all year! Sorry again, Jon. :(
 
I've only had one, I was parked in an area, that was an elevated Island, with a lowered drive on to ramp, but surrounded by double yellow lines, there were NO no parking signs,
Taxi's also park there, ( it was a bus depot) and it wasn't designated a taxi rank either, in fact it was just "no man's land"

I was out the car about 2 minutes, when I returned I found on of them there tickets stuck to the window,
As it had been such a short time I knew the charming chappy or chappess couldn't have gone far.
I was right, he was hiding, sorry, relaxing, behind a bush close by.

I asked him to explain how I got a ticket, in an area that wasn't designated a no parking area, the arrogant t***t, I mean parking attendant, said "because I can"

On closer inspection, I saw that he was in such a hurry to write the ticket, that actually, he made a hash of the reg. number. It was very close,
but not close enough, I just stood there laughing when I realise his mistake, and left him stood there wondering what was so funny.

I wonder if he got a telling off when they tried to recover the fine from "Whoever"?
 
Last edited:
I've had three and appealed three times and won three times. Shame as it wasted everyone's time, but out of principle I won't pay if haven't done it.
 
I've never had one, but if I've done something wrong I'll "happily" pay. Don't see why people lose their head about it.

The missus had one in my car though, she did a Ringo parking ticket but forgot to change it from her number plate so got a fine. She appealed it providing a receipt as proof she did pay for the duration and while not really expecting a positive outcome as it was clearly her fault the council kindly cancelled the fine.
 
neil_g said:
I've never had one, but if I've done something wrong I'll "happily" pay. Don't see why people lose their head about it.

The missus had one in my car though, she did a Ringo parking ticket but forgot to change it from her number plate so got a fine. She appealed it providing a receipt as proof she did pay for the duration and while not really expecting a positive outcome as it was clearly her fault the council kindly cancelled the fine.
Click to expand...

They generally will if there's a viable reason.
 
I've had a couple, 1 challenged successfully as there was no reason for it as my ticket was fine and on display - just daylight saving had come in but the machine hadn't updated.

The other one I didn't display the ticket (bought it and left it in my pocket) - paid it as an idiot tax
 
Uneducated_Rick said:
The other one I didn't display the ticket (bought it and left it in my pocket) - paid it as an idiot tax
Click to expand...

Oh don't worry, I've got that beaten.
I paid online for 24 hours parking in Canterbury, next to the station.
Rocked up, parked, buggered off on a TP meet...all day I never gave it another thought.
Returned to car, ticket on windscreen. :rage::rage::rage:
Examined ticket AND parking permit (printed at the time of booking parking online), then looked over to my left......to the car park I SHOULD HAVE BEEN PARKED IN! :facepalm:
Drove home...paid ticket.:arghh:
 
I've had 2.

Many years ago, I was parked in a service road behind the shop I was working in. We only had one actual space which my boss parked in but I would park across the back of his car. I wasn't blocking anyone else and the 2 traffic wardens who patrolled the area were happy to turn a blind eye.......until one of them phoned in sick one day and the stand in didn't share her view.

The 2nd one was 3 years ago when I had just renewed my blue badge but made the mistake of putting it in the door pocket but not taking the old (expired) one out so, of course, I ended up putting the wrong one on the dash. Fortunately they overturned it on appeal.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top