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Parking ticket in Asda car park - Is this legal, can they take me to court?
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And yet the people who genuinely most need them are refused. Our old neighbour is in his seventies, has had 3 major heart ops in the last 5 years or so and is not eligible!! One could argue he shouldn't drive really but he has been assessed as fit to drive by the DVLA and as he can't (reasonably) walk all that far, a blue badge would help him when he shops. I'll point him in the direction of a boot fair if you can just go and buy one?IvanOpinion wrote: »It is ridiculous that something that is meant to help the less abled in society is so badly abused ... and as you say to the point that people will steal them .. what sad non-descripts we have in our community.
You can also often find them at car boot sales
Ivan
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Any contract made with Asda regarding the use of their car park is with the driver of the vehicle and Asda, not the owner of the vehicle and Asda.
Just reply to Asda saying "Infuture please send all correspondence regarding this matter to the vehicle driver". You are not obliged to tell them who the driver was.
Dont tell lies though, just dont tell them who the driver was.0 -
Any contract made with Asda regarding the use of their car park is with the driver of the vehicle and Asda, not the owner of the vehicle and Asda.
Just reply to Asda saying "Infuture please send all correspondence regarding this matter to the vehicle driver". You are not obliged to tell them who the driver was.
Dont tell lies though, just dont tell them who the driver was.
With that attitude, best thing Asda can do is clamp the car and wait....and wait.....and wait.....and wait....... eventually someone will cough up, just might not take as long
Also it doesnt need to involve the
"Why me" brigade
"Tell em f#ck all coz I can do wot I like" brigade.
Barrack room lawyers
"I have rights" brigade
I wonder if the attitude of taking responsibility for ones own actions idea will ever catch on :rolleyes: nah doubt it, too many low lifes who are owed a living by society. oh well off to the shops, wonder what time the bus is :j0 -
I received a ticket from excel for parking too long on a Asda on a football match day.
I just did not respond to any correspondance from them nor did I take part in their appeals process. They sent me digital time stamped photos of my car. They said pay up within so many days or the cost goes up. I didn't. They then added legal fees. They then threatened to take me to court - 100 miles away from where I live and from where the 'offence' was committed.
Still no response from me. Surprise surprise the court summons did not appear.
About a year later I was then threatened again by another 'legal firm'. This time a discount(!) if I paid up and a threat to take me to court, again about 100 miles away from where I live in the opposite direction, if I didn't.
Surprise surprise the court summons didn't appear - again. Nearly two years have now passed since the 'offence'.
As far as I can see they send threatening letters to intimidate people into paying and pretend they have some kind of 'legal authority' to make you pay. They threaten court action and the court is always about 100 miles away :cool: so people think they will have to travel a long way so they just pay.
If they did go to court it is expensive for them and they would lose. The court would also take a dim view of the way their tickets and letters impersonate official legal tickets and letters. Their tickets quote some legal mumbo jumbo :cool: on the back to pretend they have legal authority to force you to pay.
My advice is ignore them. In the highly unlikely event you get a court summons, rather than a threat to take you to court(and again their letter impersonates a court summons but it isn't:cool:) then do something about then.
I am interested to know has anyone actually been taken to court by these cowboys?
Finally, I got another ticket on another day from Bolton Council. I paid it, although appeals are often successful, because it was from a proper traffic warden and they have the legal power to do what they are doing. Most important to distinguish between private companies and official traffic wardens.0 -
IvanOpinion wrote: »You can also often find them at car boot sales
It does say on the badge (or in the paperwork that comes with it - I forget which) that misuse is a criminal offence so anyone who buys one at a car boot sale in order to use it fraudulently is also committing a criminal offence.I let my mind wander and it never came back!0 -
Unfortunatley its too easy to scan and print a blue card, laminate it and stick it in the drivers window. They are not checked vigerously enough, no drivers licence number is printed on the card, no photoID, not even typed on, merely written in felt tip or biro.
Too easy to forge.
They do have a photo of the recipient on them but the recipient doesn't need to be a driver so they wouldn't have a driver's licence number.I let my mind wander and it never came back!0 -
Happychappy wrote: »With that attitude, best thing Asda can do is clamp the car and wait....and wait.....and wait.....and wait....... eventually someone will cough up, just might not take as long
Also it doesnt need to involve the
"Why me" brigade
"Tell em f#ck all coz I can do wot I like" brigade.
Barrack room lawyers
"I have rights" brigade
I wonder if the attitude of taking responsibility for ones own actions idea will ever catch on :rolleyes: nah doubt it, too many low lifes who are owed a living by society. oh well off to the shops, wonder what time the bus is :j
The thing is, just because a blue badge has not been displayed in a private car park does not mean that the driver/passenger does not have one, because there is no duty to display a blue bdage in a private car park.0 -
"Finally, I got another ticket on another day from Bolton Council. I paid it, although appeals are often successful, because it was from a proper traffic warden and they have the legal power to do what they are doing. Most important to distinguish between private companies and official traffic wardens."
Are you SURE it was enforceable, Bluejake? Bolton Council are well-known for having wrongly marked bays, and wrongly worded notices. I'm sure you checked it very carefully before you parted with your cash, though!0 -
Someone heavily pregnant parked in a parent and child bay at a local tesco. She got a ticket. She complained. Technically she has not had the child yet, (therefore she is niot strictly speaking a parent) else there would have to be special parking places for people who are heavily overweight too as they have more of a struggle getting in and out of cars.
Like an earlier poster said people do not want to take responsibility for their own actions, it is always 'someone else's fault'.Member no.1 of the 'I'm not in a clique' group :rotfl:
I have done reading too!
To avoid all evil, to do good,
to purify the mind- that is the
teaching of the Buddhas.0 -
So you think ASDA should provide you with free parking so you can watch or play Football? Really?:mad::mad::mad:I received a ticket from excel for parking too long on a Asda on a football match day.
I just did not respond to any correspondance from them nor did I take part in their appeals process. They sent me digital time stamped photos of my car. They said pay up within so many days or the cost goes up. I didn't. They then added legal fees. They then threatened to take me to court - 100 miles away from where I live and from where the 'offence' was committed.
Still no response from me. Surprise surprise the court summons did not appear.
About a year later I was then threatened again by another 'legal firm'. This time a discount(!) if I paid up and a threat to take me to court, again about 100 miles away from where I live in the opposite direction, if I didn't.
Surprise surprise the court summons didn't appear - again. Nearly two years have now passed since the 'offence'.
As far as I can see they send threatening letters to intimidate people into paying and pretend they have some kind of 'legal authority' to make you pay. They threaten court action and the court is always about 100 miles away :cool: so people think they will have to travel a long way so they just pay.
If they did go to court it is expensive for them and they would lose. The court would also take a dim view of the way their tickets and letters impersonate official legal tickets and letters. Their tickets quote some legal mumbo jumbo :cool: on the back to pretend they have legal authority to force you to pay.
My advice is ignore them. In the highly unlikely event you get a court summons, rather than a threat to take you to court(and again their letter impersonates a court summons but it isn't:cool:) then do something about then.
I am interested to know has anyone actually been taken to court by these cowboys?
Finally, I got another ticket on another day from Bolton Council. I paid it, although appeals are often successful, because it was from a proper traffic warden and they have the legal power to do what they are doing. Most important to distinguish between private companies and official traffic wardens.0
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