Parking fine in mother and baby parking space?

Hadeon

scotsman4th wrote: »

I park, press the button and the doors slide open.

scotsman4th - with respect, this response does not appear to be consistent with your earlier post at #26.
Are you now saying that your vehicle has sliding doors which, when opened, have the potential of damaging other vehicles that may be parked adjacent to you in a car-park?

Coblcris

gsbikerboy1970 wrote: »

Ive posted here recently and have taken on board all the advice given, however its all very well giving out all this great advice as a faceless medium when there are calls coming into your home upto 10 times a day. I think we should have a "face" that follows up on these people that harrass, scare, torment as they do. Im about to do that and look forward to the outcome.
phil

Who is calling you 10 times a day ?

Record the calls.

SusieWinwood

Aside from the original post, we went to ASDA in Leigh last Saturday and surprising actuallt got a P and C space A rare feat I may add):mad: just as we got out of the car an ASDA employee, bold as bloody brass pulled into a P and C space next door but one to us, got out minus a child, locked her har and promptly walked off! :mad: I glared at her and the woman next to her car looked and me and I said are you thinking what I'm thinking and she said yes.

It aggravates me as you need more space to get the babe in and out of the car seat. Normal spaces just don't have the room to maneouvre. I would have no problem bashing other peoples cars (not that I ever have) if the P and C spaces are full, mostly with non child transporting people and idle white van man who can't be *rsed looking for another spot.

I should have took the employees reg no and gone into the manager but probably rock all would have been done anyhow!

pogofish

biscit wrote: »

Do the courts agree with your interpretation of their behaviour and that act?

I don't think the PPCs or even stores would let that one even get to court and the police's resistance to getting involved in PPC matters is pretty well known too.

However, it would be interesting to see if someone could force the issue because for most PPCs, everything from the name/title on the invoices to the signs in the car parks and of course the whole "enforcement" process is in clear breach .

Rolandtheroadie

Hadeon wrote: »

scotsman4th - with respect, this response does not appear to be consistent with your earlier post at #26.
Are you now saying that your vehicle has sliding doors which, when opened, have the potential of damaging other vehicles that may be parked adjacent to you in a car-park?

No, without checking what post number 26 was, I'll assume it is where I stated I would quite happily dent peoples cars when trying to get my children out of the car.
I was just trying to show ignorance. The sort of ignorance shown by people that use spaces deliberately designed to ASSIST other people. Whether those spaces are "legal" or not.
Unfortunately, the people that park in parent and child places would also quite happily park in a disabled space. Then bleat on here about being illegally fined.
Ok, I have no doubt the fines are illegal. I dont agree or disagree with them, i've never felt the urge to look into it. To me thats not the issue. It's about being a decent human being.

kwaks

The issue to me is simple. Supermarkets have used all of their "prime" parking spots for disabled and P & C spaces. Now whilst this is comendable when the spots are being used by those who can legitimatly claim them, it is a farce when you pop down at 9 in the evening and "forced" to park half a car park away due to these empty courtesy spots.

We hear of staff parking in these, and recently a footballer parking his Bently in one, and I don't blame them!!!!!

I have 3 kids (twins in a buggy) and can use these spaces when the kids are with me, but I believe the issue is simply the planners are making the car spaces too small.

Make every space a little bit bigger (yet to see some of these car parks actually full) and EVERYONE is a winner.

biscit

fluffnutter wrote: »

Like tristontana I don't believe anyone actually objects to parent and child parking. But I should imagine some may object to parents with children getting preferential treatment.

There is no distinction between the two, obnoixiously childish positions.

biscit

SusieWinwood wrote: »

Aside from the original post, we went to ASDA in Leigh last Saturday and surprising actuallt got a P and C space A rare feat I may add):mad: just as we got out of the car an ASDA employee, bold as bloody brass pulled into a P and C space next door but one to us, got out minus a child, locked her har and promptly walked off! :mad: I glared at her and the woman next to her car looked and me and I said are you thinking what I'm thinking and she said yes.

Well apparently glaring is the rudest thing you can do!

I had a run in in an Asda last weekend. We followed a woman with two grown children. We must have been looking daggers at her while we squeezed into a normal space, because she came over and verbally abused us that the law said she was entitled to that space.

I was only mildly cheesed off that she'd taken the space- I would have shrugged my shoulders and dismissed her as one of the many unpleasant people who make up this world. What made me deeply upset was that she'd self-richeously decided to rant at me for daring to give her a look for it. My look must have hit a raw nerve.

UsagiYojimbo

SusieWinwood wrote: »

I would have no problem bashing other peoples cars (not that I ever have) if the P and C spaces are full, mostly with non child transporting people and idle white van man who can't be *rsed looking for another spot.

So you'd have no problem bashing innocent people's cars that are parked in normal spaces just because other people have parked in the P&C spaces?

That's charming.

fluffnutter

scotsman4th wrote: »

Unfortunately, the people that park in parent and child places would also quite happily park in a disabled space. Then bleat on here about being illegally fined.

Not all of them. I wouldn't. Disability is not a choice. Having a child is.

Does the 'bleat' of someone asking for the legal position re. PPC charges sound like the 'bleat' of a parent complaining that someone's parked in 'their' space?