"Private Parking Companies can fine you"

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According to "Dom" on BBC2 a few minutes ago. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Who do the BBC employ as researchers for these shows? I'm serious. I bet a team of monkeys could have done a better job finding info that is actually correct, as opposed to misleading the nation through negligent and bad advice.

I'm about to make a complaint (I still can't post a link as a newbie but go to bbc.co.uk and click on complaints at the bottom of the page) about this as it is not right. Is "Dom" any relation of Perky's? :rotfl:

Coblcris

The BBC's legal department would seem the appropriate recipient.
Copied to the Board of Governors.

Bowling_4_Gold

What show was it on? Panorama? Would like to see it...

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Bowling_4_Gold wrote: »

What show was it on? Panorama? Would like to see it...

On iPlayer now - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00j5jxv/Doms_on_the_Case_Series_2_Road_RipOffs/

peter_the_piper

These researchers are rubbish. I would like to see the legislation which aallows them to do what Dom says. I feel a complaint coming on.

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peter_the_piper wrote: »

I feel a complaint coming on.

The more the merrier :cool: though the BBC will inevitably just defend it and insist they are correct :rolleyes:

peter_the_piper

Complaint sent. Perky and his cronies must be laughing like drains at the beeb giving them the legality they don't have or deserve.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

peter_the_piper wrote: »

Complaint sent. Perky and his cronies must be laughing like drains at the beeb giving them the legality they don't have or deserve.

he said the same on the One Show a couple of weeks ago.

taxiphil

I saw the show and it was an absolute disgrace. It's hard to know where to begin. Virtually every other sentence contained a glaring falsehood. It beggars belief that the BBC can misinform their audience to this extent.

Clearly this pile of garbage wasn't checked by anyone with any legal qualifications or it would never have hit the airwaves.

It seems that the BBC are now putting out "consumer advice" programmes made by a bloke in the pub whose research consisted solely of speaking to another bloke in the pub. Quite unbelieveable.

trisontana

What's more this wasn't a new programme, but a "revised repeat" from last year. I would have thought in the meantime that somebody would have corrected the original mistakes, or added an explanation at the end of the programme.

daveyjp

They had an 'expert traffic lawyer'; they should actually have had an expert in the 'law of tort' who could have said 'if you get one of these throw it in the bin as only the landowner can sue you for damages for trespass'.

That's proper public service broadcasting.

remoinds me of an old lecturer, who was an expert in tort law. He entered onto private land unknowlingly whilst walking, the landowner threatened to sue him. There and then he gave the landowner £1 for any damage he may have caused by walking on the grass!