What an injustice..

[Imurg]

I regularly park up and have my lunch in Retail Park in Town. Loadsa space.
Free parking for 2 hours if you get a ticket from the machine - but you have to be using the shops on the park, not going into town.
Yesterday I watched 2 cars pull up within a minute of each other. The first car's occupants didn't get a ticket and strolled off to Argos. Cue the 2nd car that parks right next to them. The Guy gets a ticket and then wanders off into Town.
Along comes the PArking Attendant.

Aha! A car without a ticket - that'll be £60 please and the sticker goes on the screen.

10 minutes later the couple return and there is much wailing and knashing of teeth as their £20 ironing board has now cost them £80. A bit peeved, off they go.
5 minutes later the other Guy comes back with an armful of shopping, gets in his car and leaves.

So the couple who used the shops but didn't get a ticket - got a ticket and the guy who got a ticket but didn't use the shops didn't.

All for the sake of pressing a button on the machine.

 

[viscount17]

Free parking for 2 hours if you get a ticket from the machine - but you have to be using the shops on the park, not going into town.

So the couple who used the shops but didn't get a ticket - got a ticket and the guy who got a ticket but didn't use the shops didn't.

does this qualify for an award as a stupid rule/law - if you have a ticket how the . does anyone know where you've gone?

 

[Imurg]

We have 2 or 3 car parks with a similar rule.
They're trying to keep the car park empty enough so when people come to use the shops on the park there's enough space for them - the fact that I've only seen the carpark full in the run-up to Xmas (and half of them have gone into town) doesn't come in to it.....

 

[Bacardibatman]

ive seen it before where if they appeal & show them the receipt from the shop (Argos in this case) they can get the fine waived

 

[chrisd]

For any parking ticket matters the experts are on a site called Pepipoo.com it's a forum based site and anyone who gets a private or warden ticket should go there first. The main guys there are so clued up.

A mate where I live parked on yellow lines and got a ticket and when I went on the site we found that parking on double yellows is allowed in our town when moving the contents of a house, flat or office - exactly what he was doing, had we not researched he would have paid the fine.

They also deal with speeding and other offences and I have learnt masses about motoring "fines" fom there


Chris

 

[robbest3offthetee]

What i cannot understand is why didnt the people in the first car pick their ticket, then they would not have got a parking ticket,just sounds like they couldnt be bothered tbh,so deserved in my opinion...

 

[Yerman]

I hope they learned their lesson and shop elsewhere in future.

 

[CliveW]

How will the people who issue the tickets know who the driver was? It is not like a speeding offence where the owner of the car is bound by law to declare who was driving the car at the time of the offence. If the owner of the car does not own up to being the driver then whoever issued the ticket cannot proceed with the case.

 

[surefire]

On a retail park, it's quite likely that there is CCTV.

You'd look pretty foolish not owning up, or even claiming someone else not to be named was the driver, to then be seen parking up and getting out of the car!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I think those that didn't get the ticket only have themselves to blame. If its anything like the retail outlets we have once you've parked and displayed your ticket who is going to follow you CCTV or otherwise as you go from shop to shop. If you disappear off elsewhere as long as you've played by the rules and got the ticket I don't see what the attendant (and they aren't really hired for their IQ anyway) will do. If he can see the ticket that is all he is looking for

 

[chrisd]

IF the ticket is on a retail park and the "fine" is from a company and not a proper traffic warden you absolutely have no need to pay it

Its an invoice and is totally unenforceable in the law. They would not risk actually going to court, although they will threaten to, as they cannot win - that is a fact!

If anyone wants to know more or gets into the same situation I will gladly explain more fully



Chris

 

[CliveW]

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=46975

 

[chrisd]

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=46975

Spot on Clive !!


Chris

 

[User 105]

Got a ticket in Milton Keynes last summer.

Parked right next to the machine, warden standing right there. Watches me get a ticket, take it to the car (about 6ft away) and put it on the dashboard.

My sister got out the passenger side and as it was windy it must have blown the ticket off the dashboard.

As we walked off I turned around and saw the guy standing next to my car, but thought nothing of it as I had a ticket.

Got back and had been given the fine. Time stamped 1 min after the time on my ticket stub. So he was issuing it as I was walking off.

Got let off it when I rang the parking admin and told them what happened and sent them the copies of the tickets.

But what a jerk. I know the rule is it must be displayed but he could have easily called me back. Wasted mine, his and the councils time.

 

[chrisd]

Got let off it when I rang the parking admin and told them what happened and sent them the copies of the tickets.

Most people dont appeal, they pay up and the Council get someones hard earned money for nothing. There are usually grounds for appeal and I believe that in parking matters there is no fairness in love and war - always look to appeal. You did well my friend


Chris

 

[Crazyface]

Our local Aldi has its car park monitored and you can park there for 1 1/2 hours for free. Needless to say it's bl00dy packed all the time with people using it to pop into town and for those of us who have discovered that Aldi actually does some quality food at great prices can't get a space. They'd sell more stuff if it could be controlled better.

 

[JustOne]

I had one from McDonalds...
http://www.mcsucks.com/mcblog/
I didn't pay it and they changed their policy Countrywide!
(as far as I'm aware).


I had one from Asda which I disputed as I had used their shop. They had the card transaction on their records and I had a bank statement to prove it.


I had one on Christmas eve from a 'retail park' which I actually paid £51.50 for as I just couldn't be bothered to dispute it

 

[chrisd]

I had one on Christmas eve from a 'retail park' which I actually paid £51.50 for as I just couldn't be bothered to dispute it

The advice is not to dispute it, just to totally ingore all demands and they will just give up.


Chris