Had a odd situation a few weeks ago, I took my family to Edinburgh Fringe Festival, we drove up and parked on the peripheral of Edinburgh as it's cheaper to park on a side street -paid £7 at parking meter as it actually covered me time-wise to the to the following morning. When I got back to the car in the evening around 9pm - I found I'd been issued a penalty ticket earlier in the day by the parking warden - they'd put the 'paper penalty charge' on my window screen and it actually placed and covered the area were I displayed my clearly visible and valid parking permit - needless to say was pissed off! The parking penalty - stated I didn't display a parking permit - I got home emailed the the Edinburgh Council with a photocopy of my parking permit and photo of the permit inside my window screen - I got a rather cryptic reply today saying after their 'investigation' the penalty ticket was issued in error and was in fact 'spoiled' by the warden- it wasn't spoiled or had anything written on the penalty charge to say issued in error or whatsoever - so my thoughts are if the warden actually realised their error- so why the **** would they still leave the penalty charge - do parking wardens get a commission for every ticket issued? Has anyone else had this happen or anything similar? The whole scenario stinks in my view - and makes you wonder if it's now common practice to raise revenue (at £60.00 per fine issued) to charge unsuspecting and gullible motorist who will swallow the fine and pay up!
I got issued one because I had to walk to the third nearest ticket machine as the first two were broken, by the time I got back I had a ticket. He told me he couldn't un-issue the ticket but I would get off with it if I emailed them, which I did and I did. Manchester council got done a while back for charging £1.25 for tickets and their machines didn't take 5p coins
I got one whilst I was on an anger management course down Harrogate. The aforementioned course was immediately cancelled whilst I went to kick seven bells out of the warden and the pricks in town hall. Like didds I had a valid parking tkt and had actually taken a photo of it whilst on the dash. I even waved at the CCTV and did a little dance whilst inserting the money in. Mainly due to not trusting these ****ers. I got off with it but told my boss to stuff the anger management up his arse. I did not attend any more classes. Probably should have.
Definitely shouldn't have mate. Waste of ****ing time. How does talking to you about your 'trigger points' stop you reacting in a volatile situation? Stupid bastards tried to get me to peel a plastic orange to test my patience, I won't elaborate on what happened next but that brought my anger management classes to a swift end and both parties were glad to see the back of each other I don't know one person who has went in to anger management lessons and came out a changed person. Not one. It doesn't work.
Had 2 tickets in the past month and none previous. One for parking on double yellows near my house and our blue badge wasnt displayed correctly. Failed on first appeal with Tameside council and I havnt replied yet. 2nd was in the disabled spaces in an Aldi car park. Was 17 minutes over a limit of an hour and a half (which I didnt know about as couldnt see signs) so got a £70 ticket. Appeal has gone in to the private company. Would love these f*****s to deal with a disabled wife, guide dog and 2 young kids whilst stressing about where to park! @@@@@
Can the Aldi one stand? Thought it was only the police and the local authority who had the right to issue fines. Thought this private car park thing was just scaremongering tactics. I would personally tell them to do one. But thats poss my anger management coming out.
Spot on. They have no right to issue fines. They could take you to a civil court (not criminal) and argue that you inconvenienced them in some way and you should compensate them for £70, but I reckon they'd have huge difficulty in proving that to a judge. I too would tell them to do one, and also add that if they do take you to civil court you'll infrom the local press of how they piss on disabled people, these ****ers do NOT like bad publicity!
Did they kick you out of their club? if they did they have no heart as you are a real diamond and always calls a spade a spade..
It is mate defy. Unfortunately my son in law to be is a copper and he kept me right when i got issued a ticket from a private car park. You DON'T have to pay unless it's issued by a cop or the council.
Tickets are issued purely to make money for the council. As if paying our taxes, council tax and every other bill isn't enough, they will try to rob more money out of you at every opportunity. To park your car in my town is £1 for an hour. If you are late back to your car they fine you £25. That's 25x the amount. Complete robbery.
