Parking ticket in Asda car park - Is this legal, can they take me to court?

andyrules

consultant31 wrote: »

In case this post was meant to make us all laugh so that we can prove we're great fun on a night out, here goes :rotfl: :rotfl:

As to the your phrase that I am "worming around avoiding the real purpose of your post"..........I can assure you that I wasn't trying to avoid answering, I thought (and still think) your real purpose was to get noticed by starting an arguement.

The fact of the matter is not whether the 'fines' are legal or not surely, but that an able-bodied person really should take advantage of being fit enough to leave other designated spaces to those less fortunate than themselves.

Therefore dishing out instructions on how to avoid the 'fines' just encourages people to be selfish, ignorant, idle (or whatever other adjective you may like to use) when all they have to do to avoid paying them is be more thoughtful.

Personally I may be knocking on a bit, but I'm still grateful for the fact that I can walk from the far side of the car-park, rain or shine, and give myself a wee bit of exercise to boot

Tim Deegan, I know that it's not intended for a Mum and 10 year old, but apparently they don't. I wonder if I could use them when I take my 80 year old Mum shopping??:D

Well said - and actually I would agree with your tongue-in-cheek comment - an 80 year old, who probably needs help getting out of a car, would have better use of a P&C space than a 10 year old, which really is taking the pee.

dangeroussports

inconsiderate peseants park in bays not designated for them. then they have the gall to moan about fines etc....bloody mindless monkeys. Nail them up i say! Inconsiderate monkeys!

dangeroussports

the law of morals......

inconsiderate ....

meester

Wig wrote: »

There's no reason why P&C spaces should not be plentifully suppplied at the far end of the car park, most car parks could accomodate this with a suitable pavement walkway to the store. Perhaps you should complain about lack of P&C and request that they move them to the far end of the car park so that people are not tempted to 'steal' them. Your son is injured (this is not a normal example) ok so leave him at home or shop when he's at school, or leave him with a neighbour, friend or relative. If you can't do any of those things, then tough luck, life's a b1tch sometimes. In any event you could have got a trolley and sat him or stood him in the trolley, or walked to the store entrance to get a wheelchair.

Families tend to be supermarkets' best customers. Why? Because four people need a lot more food, nappies, etc. than a single person or couple.

So they will do what they can to keep the likes of me spending my £150 a time in there.

Fact is, I am better than you to them. You just don't measure up. Sorry.

The supermarket doesn't have the attitude that life's a b1tch, surprisingly enough they want to make their best customers come back, and no amount of bitterness from the likes of you is going to change that.

And when it comes to my small children I'm definitely happier having them walk 50 yards than 300, due to the numerous arrogant and inconsiderate types (of which you are a prime example), that could run them over.

And of course it's nice not to have my to extract my baby from a rear-facing car seat in a normal-sized space where there's not enough room to open the doors fully.

Sorry that you feel so bitter, but the supermarkets value my custom - these things are not necessities, yes I could survive without them, but remember that the supermarkets ONLY provide these things because it makes them money. They want to make me happy about shopping in their store. And if you don't like the way they run their business, go shop somewhere else.

sarahg1969

Why do so many people need to remove their children from the car in their car seats? It's not good for them to be in a car seat all the time.

meester

sarahg1969 wrote: »

Why do so many people need to remove their children from the car in their car seats? It's not good for them to be in a car seat all the time.

I assume to avoid waking them up. Dunno.

I never remove the care seat from my car - always take my daughter out of her car seat, which due to the fact that it is rear-facing and much higher than a person would seat (due to the base it sits on for safety/stability), is impossible to do unless the door can open almost all the way. It does make parking trickier when you have to get dead centre and hope the adjoining cars aren't right on the edge of the bay or massively bloated 4x4 models.

uktim29

meester wrote: »

due to the numerous arrogant and inconsiderate types (of which you are a prime example), that could run them over.

Is there a connection between suggesting p & c spaces could go at the back of car parks and running children over?

meester

parkerparker wrote: »

The old jealosuy gene surfaces quite a lot on here doesn't it :rolleyes:

It woud be more appropriate if supermarkets provided "nice car" spaces so we don't have to park our expensive motors next to your puny little environmentally unfriendly smokey rust buckets.

My car cost £28k new 4 years ago (I didn't pay close to that ha ha, not jealous of the depreciation), and is comfortable, fast, and quiet, I am not jealous of people with 4x4s, who tend in any case to be families anyway.

However it's a matter of simple physics that there's more room, when parked in a normal-sized space, next to a Ford Ka than there is a Audi Q8, accordingly it's much easier if there isn't a bloated 4x4 next to you, as I stated.

Tim_Deegan

uktim29 wrote: »

My username gives my approx age away! (31 now)



Well again the majority will drive or if not public transport is an option. Parking is never a problem away from city centers really.

But you say you can't walk to smaller shops. How many people would have done that 15/20 years ago anyway? They'd have driven or got the bus.

So how often did you do the shopping when you were 16?

Tim_Deegan

RichyRich wrote: »

NO.

Supermarkets have flourished because they better provide for the needs of the market than smaller shops.

If the population wants long opening hours and low prices, and supermarkets provide them, then supermarkets are better.

If a local shop is more expensive, worse value and less convenient than a competitor (i.e supermarket), I fail to see the value in retaining it.

Because the quality of food sold in supermarkets doesn't even come close to that sold in many smaller shops.