OT. Parking

[dave stanton]

No, you use google instead !!!!

Dave

[Dave Plowman (News)]

You've obviously put the car in the name of not the main user to get cheaper insurance, etc. Then concoct a plausible story - to you - about tickets falling off the dashboard - blah blah. But if she'd kept that paid for ticket - as you would, after seeing the penalty notice on the windscreen, and sent it off with a covering letter you'd get off with it. Because then it becomes failure to display a valid parking permit. So a whole new ball game. Not fantasy.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

And long gone are the days when a 'criminal' said 'you've got me banged to rights, guv'

'They' invent all sorts of reasons why they didn't do it - but those dealing with that side of it have heard them all many, many, times before.

[Owain]

nightjar >My daughter got a parking ticket from the local council and wrote to

Perhaps the parking fine should be paid, and then legal action commenced against the council to recover the cost as the parking ticket issued by the machine was obviously insufficiently self-adhesive (I assume it's the sort where the ticket somes with a self-adhesive backing sticker) and therefore not of satisfactory quality under relevant consumer protection legislation?

Owain

[David Lang]

Hi Dave

Dave

[Graeme]

And she will still get fined and won't get off at the appeal either. The reason for this is it would be so easy for people who get a penalty notice to get a 'valid' ticket for that time ie wait for someone else to return to there car and then get there old ticket.

Machines are now starting to appear where you have to type in your licence plate when you get the ticket , your number is then printed on the ticket, which is then displayed as per normal.

This has the advantage that if your ticket 'falls on the floor' and you get a penalty you can appeal and have a very good chance that you will get off, it also stops the practice of reusing other peoples tickets which may just make the local council a few more quid !!

[:::Jerry::::]

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Or perhaps the said window just needs a clean.....

[Bob Eager]

But due to the cost of 'full' keypads, they usually only want the numeric part. This was fine until a few years ago, but a whole six months' worth of new cars now have the same number...

I make a point of looking for someone who can use my part used tickets...

[nightjar]

The fact that the OP says it fell off the dashboard suggests that either it was not adhesive, or, if it was, that was not the way it was used.

Colin Bignell

[mungoh]

[big snip]

Watching a traffic warden walk along a pavement checking for parking tickets in car windscreens, I noted that the person paused for a few seconds per car and then walk on.

I then wondered what would the overall effect be if the warden took much longer per car - productivity would go down?

So, buy one of those sun screen concertina things (made of cardboard or similar) and stick your parking sticker there on day one. Stick it upside down as well. Then on day two, put that ticket beside the other one. By the end of a couple of months, and by random placement, you will have a windscreen of tickets and a much more time-consuming job for the checker.

You are not breaking the law, since you are displaying a valid ticket. It doesn't instruct you not to remove other tickets...

Any local authority systems to thwart this, anyone?

Mungo :-)

[al]

Actually, I'm pretty sure you are .. with the first bit at least. I think I've seen a program on TV state that they can fine you if the ticket is not the correct way up. Rings a bell as it was done un-intentionally and the person receiving the fine, was obviously quite upset.

But then it was quite clear from the program that parking wardens are one of the lowest form of vermin on the planet and should all have been drowned at birth. Sad, sad losers with no sense of common respect or decency (the list of shocking - and often illegal - actions carried out by them made me sick to the stomach).

One day this idiotic government will realise that privatising any industry that serves the public will mean they value profit over *anything* else. There was a day when police could do a fair job with things like this and rail companies didn't try to kill us off by neglecting safety.

Now where's a handy place to store this milk box till next time ... ;)

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[:::Jerry::::]

cardboard or

Yes, and seeing that most tickets are mean to be affixed to the

*screen* (or other appropriate vehicle glass) they could probably also fine the driver on incorrect display.

But illegal, selfish, drivers who expect to park where, when and how they like, not to mention at no cost to themselves, are the lowest...

[Jeff]

I object to having to enter the numeric part of my reg, if minimum time is an hour and i've only been 5 mins why shouldn't someone else use the space that i've paid for ?

• minimum charge is now 90p and the machine does not give change !

Regards Jeff

[Mary Fisher]

Takes one to know one.

Mary

[Tony Bryer]

Why blame *this* idiotic government. Privatising parking enforcement (and hospital cleaning, school dinners etc) is true blue stuff. We've got a Conservative council and wardens who ticket any and everything (except illegally parked cars outside schools at 3.30 apparently - too much grief from parents). Park in the Tesco car park Teddington at 6.25p.m. on a Saturday and you'll find out how keen they are.

[Tony Williams]

There's a car illegally parked every day, in our local Somerfield's. It never gets booked. That's because it belongs to one of the jobsworth private parking attendants who now infests our town.

AFAIR it was in Bristol that the jobsworths were doing the same trick, parking anywhere they liked, safe because of the little identity slips on the dashboard. Except that it got onto tv and the police went through them like a dose of salts.

[David Lang]

Hi Jeff

Same around here, machine unable to issue change despite this being the year

2005 and every other machine on the planet being able to give it.

And have you noticed that if you over pay you don't get any extra time?

Of course, its not a fund raising exercise, it's done for some other reason.......

Dave

[Tony Bryer]

Why does they have to have a minimum charge apart from a desire to make an extra quick buck? Why not 10p for each (say) 10 minutes, pay for what you want.

[:::Jerry::::]

Because the cortract is with you and not 9 or 10 others as well....

Well, put the correct money in!

[:::Jerry::::]

Lang

being

Because if it worked like that the car park would need to be staffed full time, the warden would have to check on new arrivals every 7 minutes, this would treble the cost of parking way above the minimum charge - even for just 10 minutes I suspect...