Parking ticket rant!

Gavin83

I don't really see what the council has done wrong, you stayed longer than you paid for and therefore received a fine. Unfortunately as nice as it was that you helped out, it's going to cost you. As you can't possibly provide proof, they won't believe you and even if you could provide proof Im not sure it's a viable excuse anyway.

[Deleted User]

I know it sounds horrible, but you should of passed the lost kid onto the police rather than hunting around for the mother yourself.

DaveF327

JQ. wrote: »

Whilst I have no doubt the OP was acting as a good Samaritan, can you imagine how many complicated excuses parking offence offices get every single day from people trying to wriggle out of a ticket - the mind boggles?

That thought crossed my mind too. Whilst I sympathise wholeheartedly, the OP doesn't have a leg to stand on legally speaking.

To take the case to an adjudicator, there has to be grounds, such as "the contravention did not occur", but it did. I admire any attempt to take it further, and I'd love to hear the outcome.

sarahg1969

Hang on everyone. We haven't even seen the ticket. It might not be right.

peter_the_piper

Photo the ticket, both sides, remove the personal bits and host on tinypic Copy/paste the url into a post and let others help you. Hopefully being a good Samaritan will not cost you. Councils often make errors on paperwork and on the lines/signs they mark the bay with. Pics of these would help, especially end on along the bay.

sleepystar1975

Gavin83 wrote: »

I don't really see what the council has done wrong, you stayed longer than you paid for and therefore received a fine. Unfortunately as nice as it was that you helped out, it's going to cost you. As you can't possibly provide proof, they won't believe you and even if you could provide proof Im not sure it's a viable excuse anyway.

Don't worry, I wasn't saying the council had done anything wrong by issuing the ticket in the first place. I was just having a quick scream into cyber space that my doing a good deed has cost me £35-£70.

sleepystar1975

Deleted_User wrote: »

I know it sounds horrible, but you should of passed the lost kid onto the police rather than hunting around for the mother yourself.

I would have, but like I said earlier, I am on crutches (following ankle reconstruction surgery) and the police station was the farthest side of town, so would've taken me a good 25 minutes to hobble there.

sarahg1969

sleepystar1975 wrote: »

Don't worry, I wasn't saying the council had done anything wrong by issuing the ticket in the first place. I was just having a quick scream into cyber space that my doing a good deed has cost me £35-£70.

It hasn't cost you anything yet!! Show us the ticket.

sleepystar1975

peter_the_piper wrote: »

Photo the ticket, both sides, remove the personal bits and host on tinypic Copy/paste the url into a post and let others help you. Hopefully being a good Samaritan will not cost you. Councils often make errors on paperwork and on the lines/signs they mark the bay with. Pics of these would help, especially end on along the bay.

Thank-you. I will do that once the batteries for the camera have charged, should be about an hour or so. It looks pretty ok to me.
The one thing that did concern me was that the little sticky bag that fixes it to the window was only just stuck on. If someone had brushed passed it, it may well have come off, and I would have been none-the-wiser, till a bigger fine came through the door (in Dh'd name, as it's his car. I'm using it while I'm recovering from the op, as his car is automatic, mine is manual)

sleepystar1975

sarahg1969 wrote: »

It hasn't cost you anything yet!! Show us the ticket.

Forgot, Dh's camera was sitting in the cupboard. Please excuse my photography skills. had to photograph it in parts, as it's a long ticket. Let me know if you need any closer up.

Front pt1

front pt2



Front pt 3


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