Parking ticket.....any "sure-fire" excuses?

[backwoodsman]

Sorry, but it has to be a "pay it".

What people think of as a "grace period" isn't legal or binding - it's just a bit of leeway that wardens usually give. Some give 5 mins, some a bit more but whatever it is, is a bonus. Your missus was over time, so you're a bit stuck.

 

[RGDave]

Sorry, but it has to be a "pay it".

What people think of as a "grace period" isn't legal or binding -

Nor is knowingly writing the wrong time on the ticket (legal, that is). In fact under the road traffic act of 1991, schedule 6 "Parking Fines" - issuing a ticket. A person that issues a ticket "which is false in a material particular and does so recklessly or knowing it to be false in that particular is guilty of an offence."

If a warden offers to change the time, he/she has knowingly entered the wrong time....simple.

That isn't my loophole b.t.w. my loophole is rather more convoluted.....

I'll keep you posted.....

 

[RGDave]

OK....so to follow up.

We got the letter today CANCELLING the ticket and the fine.

Hooray!

How did we do it? Challenged the "material facts" on the ticket and threatened to take the warden to court independent of the company themselves.

"Any person issuing a ticket “which is false in a material particular and does so recklessly or knowing it to be false in that particular is guilty of an offence”. (Road traffic act 1991)."

Not too unclear in my mind. If a ticket is 100% accurate and without question, pay it. If there is any element of doubt, fight it!!