£75 parking fine from PO Box company!

LinasPilibaitisisbatman

ticketcollector wrote: »

You'll soon change your mind when you get wrongly 'fined' for something by the cowboys. It will happen.

If they were wrongly fined then they have a claim. It doesnt seem that is clear yet.

If I parked in a disabled bay or someones car park who I shouldnt have and got caught I would accept the punishment. But then I am an adult and not someone who tries to take the !!!! then falls back on outdated, or obscure laws and outright lies or fraud to get out of my responsibilities.

I am sure the OP will be along shortly to tell us they had their badge on show and it was an error

daska

LinasPilibaitisisbatman wrote: »

You forgot to answer the question as to whether he was guilty of parking in a disabled bay without displaying a badge?

I trust you will answer shortly.

Personally I hope they go the other way and make it legally enforcable for people to be penalised for abusing private property at the detriment of landowners and those who have genuine and contract rights to use the facilities.

The OP states "he had not displayed his badge correctly". Not that he didn't have a badge or had not displayed it.

In defence of those of us who have blue badges - we have them because we are disabled in some way... in many cases we are of an age or have an illness that can mean we easily get confused or have a poor memory. Is it fair to penalise someone who would have been legally parked if they weren't ill, didn't get confused and had remembered to display their badge correctly... ?

If I'm 'bad', it's as much as my husband can do to get me sorted out while minding the baby and rounding up the older kids - the last thing he needs to worry about is the ******* blue badge.

LinasPilibaitisisbatman

daska wrote: »

The OP states "he had not displayed his badge correctly". Not that he didn't have a badge or had not displayed it.

In defence of those of us who have blue badges - we have them because we are disabled in some way... in many cases we are of an age or have an illness that can mean we easily get confused or have a poor memory. Is it fair to penalise someone who would have been legally parked if they weren't ill, didn't get confused and had remembered to display their badge correctly... ?

If I'm 'bad', it's as much as my husband can do to get me sorted out while minding the baby and rounding up the older kids - the last thing he needs to worry about is the ******* blue badge.

Um not having one could be not displaying it correctly

As for the rest of your thread. I will wait til the OP confirms they even had a valid badge. And you as a blue badge holder should maybe accept that far too many of you abuse them and give them out to anyone in the family whose to lazy to walk a few yards hence the scepticism.

Crabman

LinasPilibaitisisbatman wrote: »

If they were wrongly fined then they have a claim. It doesnt seem that is clear yet.

If I parked in a disabled bay or someones car park who I shouldnt have and got caught I would accept the punishment. But then I am an adult and not someone who tries to take the !!!! then falls back on outdated, or obscure laws and outright lies or fraud to get out of my responsibilities.

I am sure the OP will be along shortly to tell us they had their badge on show and it was an error

It's important for you to know that a private company can not 'fine' anyone and there is no legal basis for it.

There was no need to pay it and whilst I agree disabled spaces should be left for those who need them most, there is no legal means of penalising those who do not respect that.

Neil_B

LinasPilibaitisisbatman wrote: »

And you as a blue badge holder should maybe accept that far too many of you abuse them and give them out to anyone in the family whose to lazy to walk a few yards hence the scepticism.

That is a really offensive post. How can you aim such a ridiculous accusation at someone who merely offered helpful input on a personal experience of the reality of using a Blue Badge.

Make up your mind. It's either disgusting that people sometimes abuse disabled facilities or all disabled people should be viewed as dishonest. Which is it?

Neil_B

LinasPilibaitisisbatman wrote: »

Personally I hope they go the other way and make it legally enforcable for people to be penalised for abusing private property at the detriment of landowners and those who have genuine and contract rights to use the facilities.

To be enforced by who exactly? The particularly nasty Company involved in this case perhaps? £3 per day my !!!!.
Will it involve legalising the harassing, threatening, misleading, trauma inducing mail that follows?
Oh PLEASE,PLEASE go and park 20mm over a line in a retail park somewhere, get one for yourself and then see how you feel about what follows!

It has always largely been and remains the fault of landowners and the complicity of major chains of retailers as one particular group. Put the barriers back in that we used to have and manage your own property effectively and fairly.
Nope, they prefer to leave it to cowboys who are little better than conmen IMO

Neil_B

LinasPilibaitisisbatman wrote: »

You forgot to answer the question as to whether he was guilty of parking in a disabled bay without displaying a badge?

No, he was "guilty" of assisting a 92 year old gentleman to go shopping. It was in the opening post but seems to have sailed over your head?

LinasPilibaitisisbatman

Nowhere does the OP confirm that the vehicle - or either occupant for that matter - hold a valid blue badge that they had on display.

I assume they at the very least did not have it on display thus I think the "fine" is entirely just. Why should unsuspecting landowners and those with genuine reason to use the facilitiy be robbed by those with no right, or the lack of decency to display their badge.

Meepster

Fight, fight, fight, fight...

bargepole

LinasPilibaitisisbatman wrote: »

Nowhere does the OP confirm that the vehicle - or either occupant for that matter - hold a valid blue badge that they had on display.

I assume they at the very least did not have it on display thus I think the "fine" is entirely just. Why should unsuspecting landowners and those with genuine reason to use the facilitiy be robbed by those with no right, or the lack of decency to display their badge.

Still completely missing the point, I'm afraid. The blue badge scheme is applicable to Council operated car parks only, it has no relevance whatsoever in privately operated car parks.

I would agree that, as a matter of common courtesy, spaces marked for disabled use in private car parks should be respected; however, we should not allow the bottom-feeding maggots who operate these areas to profit from breaches of etiquette.