Money Moral Dilemma: Would you pay a parking back hander? 15 December 2008 at 11:30AM in Money Saving Polls 88 replies 17.5K views

Former_MSE_Andrea

Here's this week's hypothetical situation for you to cogitate on:

Would you give a car park attendant a back hander?

You’re parking in a big private car park in the centre of town. When you return the cost will be about £14. Yet a member of staff who works there tells you if you give him a fiver in cash he’ll let you through the gates no problem. This is self-evidentally defrauding the car park company. Would you pay the parking backhander?

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Saucepot

Oh back hander....

yeh why not. i wouldn't give him a hand job though. I'd just pay the parking ticket.

poppy10_2

Of course I would. Parking charges are ridiculously high in this country. I'd rather have the money go into the pocket of the poor attendant than to the fat-cat bosses of these rip-off firms.

Amba_Gambla

heck yeah!

curriej99

yeh but i'd give him less, insist on a receipt, then tell him i was going to grass him up as i left -give him something to think about.

PS Merry Xmas xxx

khizman

I have done this in Central London, there was a road with shops, round the back there was a loading unloading area with a big yard, bought the guard "lunch" and he let me in for a few hours and watched my car. Double bonus!

georgemcghie

Yes - No problem - I love entrepreneurs, it has made the country what it is today!!!!

Dorrie

Nope, I wouldn't give the attendant the money - it is stealing and fraud. I would also inform the company he works for. The cost of the car parking doesn't really come into it - you knew how much it would be when you parked there, although there is no way I would ever go to a car park that charges that much!

LoulaBelle

Yep - I'd do it - £5 to him and £9 to me - its a no brainer!

Ebenezer_Screwj

No, I would report the creep and hope that he is prosecuted with as much severity as the law can muster up.

TwoHands

But not for the many reasons people above suggest.

You take the ticket, refuse to pay the back hander, then report him to the police and contest the ticket on the grounds that it was used as attempted blackmail.

You pay neither the back hander, nor the ticket, and there is one less parking attendant in the world.