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

ckerrd

Tim_Deegan wrote: »

Does it matter unless you are one of those people?

As it was you who said they are "allowed to invoice you" I thought you might have some idea of the amount and rationale for the invoice?

Tim_Deegan

ben500 wrote: »

Very few of them are issued with regards to disabled spaces and then often to disabled drivers. PPC's are hardly in the position to adopt the moral high ground, pick a better arguement one you have a gnats chance of winning.

I'm not trying to win an argument for the PPC's. You don't know how all PPC's operate, so you are in no position to comment. The whole point is that if anyone who isn't disabled parks in a dissabled space then they do deserve a fine for being so ignorant and selfish. The legalities of it are probably wrong, and the invoice should be enforced in court. It is just another case of ignorant selfish people using a loophole.

adouglasmhor

Tim_Deegan wrote: »

There would be no invoice to ignore if people weren't ignorant enough to park in disapled spaces in the first place.

True - I don't park in disabled spaces because I am not disabled, not because some con man is going to attempt to invoice me. But you can ignore them, nothing is going to happen to you, no law against being ignorant and rude yet.

Tim_Deegan

ckerrd wrote: »

As it was you who said they are "allowed to invoice you" I thought you might have some idea of the amount and rationale for the invoice?

Why would I? I have enough repect for people less fortunate than myself to not park in dissabled spaces. And I don't work for a PPC. So I've never needed to know. Personally I think they should use secure clamps that can't be removed.

ckerrd

Tim_Deegan wrote: »

Why would I? I have enough repect for people less fortunate than myself to not park in dissabled spaces. And I don't work for a PPC. So I've never needed to know. Personally I think they should use secure clamps that can't be removed.

Do you not think that supermarkets should take the time and trouble to use a system that is of benefit to their customers rather than employ the services of companies that lie and use scare tactics to attempt to force people into paying someting that they have no need to?

ckerrd

Tim_Deegan wrote: »

I'm not trying to win an argument for the PPC's. You don't know how all PPC's operate, so you are in no position to comment. The whole point is that if anyone who isn't disabled parks in a dissabled space then they do deserve a fine for being so ignorant and selfish. The legalities of it are probably wrong, and the invoice should be enforced in court. It is just another case of ignorant selfish people using a loophole.

And you don't work for a PPC either so therefore by your logic you have no position to comment from, so why not go and find a thread on a topic where you have some experience that may be of benefit to others?

ben500

Tim_Deegan wrote: »

I'm not trying to win an argument for the PPC's. You don't know how all PPC's operate, so you are in no position to comment. The whole point is that if anyone who isn't disabled parks in a dissabled space then they do deserve a fine for being so ignorant and selfish. The legalities of it are probably wrong, and the invoice should be enforced in court. It is just another case of ignorant selfish people using a loophole.

I think you'll find the ignorant ones tend to pay up, it's the informed that don't.

adouglasmhor

ben500 wrote: »

I think you'll find the ignorant ones tend to pay up, it's the informed that don't.

there is ignorant of the law and ignorant of manners - I think it''s poetic justice that most who are one are the other too.

Tim_Deegan

ckerrd wrote: »

Do you not think that supermarkets should take the time and trouble to use a system that is of benefit to their customers rather than employ the services of companies that lie and use scare tactics to attempt to force people into paying someting that they have no need to?

If you don't break the parking rules set up by the supermarkets then there is no problem. I've never had a PPC use scare tactics against me or lied to me.

Tim_Deegan

ben500 wrote: »

I think you'll find the ignorant ones tend to pay up, it's the informed that don't.

Well thets just hope you are never dissabled. Because I bet you would be the first to call the able bodied person who has taken the last dissabled space ignorant.