160 parking tickets

taffy056

160 parking tickets for parking outside her house, unbeleivable

http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/news/parking-fines-cost-thousands/article-2935637-detail/article.html

HO87

Whilst this poor woman has been remarkably stupid one also has to wonder at what the management in the council were thinking when they appear to have allowed the matter to escalate to this level without having intervened before. To fall back on the comment "we have to follow procedure" smacks just as much of head-in-the-sand as that of the woman concerned. They may have written letters but had it occurred to any of the shiney-ar*ed brigade to knock on the woman's door, find out what was going on and stop it? This is as good an illustration of the real driver behind local authority parking enforcement (i.e. revenue generation) as any I've seen for some time. Oh, and the quoted official is appropriately named.

Coblcris

I agree. While following the procedures laid down by the parking regulations, which they do have to do, they could and should have shown more care and diligence.
What point does it have to reach before it becomes clear that there is an issue and that it is very unlikely indeed that the council will be able to collect on all the PCNs and that they were wasting their own time.

Blind money chasing and stats driven metrics very probably at work here.

peter_the_piper

It would not take much extra programming to have the system flag up an issue like this when (say) 10 current tickets have been issued and not dealt with.

backfoot

The lady could have done better.

However,what's so sad is the context of the whole matter. It is parking outside her own place of dwelling because she didn't have the right permit.

No one thought to nip the issue in the bud from the authorities. No one assesses the mitigation, no one uses common sense. Instead we have a baying mob on the newspaper website slagging her off for this that and the other (including her weight).If you hadn't read the headline you might think they were discussing a murderer.

No one has really lost anything. No one was hurt. It's all so trivial but it caters to the masses who have no connection with her at all. Very sad Jobsworths.:(

RadoJo

In fairness, I don't really understand why she continued to park there - we used to live on a road where you had to have a residents permit, and when we first moved in (before we had proof of address) we just parked further away until we had the correct permit. If she knew that she was incurring tickets that she couldn't pay, I don't understand why she didn't park somewhere else - you don't necessarily have the right to park directly outside your own home.
From the comments on here, I assumed that she had not known about these tickets, but she admits in the article that she did, and was just unable to pay them - so why continue to park there?

Had they not continued to ticket her, then it's tantamount to saying that if you commit the same offence enough times it's not worth pursuing. If I was a neighbour paying for my permit and she was allowed to get away with not paying for one, I would be pretty ticked off. The official from the council said that offers of help were made to her which were refused, so I'm not really sure what else they should have done?

laurenjs88

in the comments it says that there is a free car park the other side of the road... I am by no means a small person but even with weight I am not that lazy when i park my car! I cant park outside my house either

taffy056

There is a sort of update for this, just the paper milking it, but still

http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/news/Web-anger-row-163-11k-fines/article-2944346-detail/article.html

Messrs_Arthur_and_Terry

_Cant wrote:

We have a duty to ratepayers to collect monies outstanding and will continue to do so

That's the spirit. I'd rest easy knowing the council are doing it for the good of the ratepayers.:rotfl:It's a bit like banks telling us they make profit for the benefit of the shareholders.

Funny how the council couldn't establish her bone fides, but the bailiffs had no problem rocking up and extorting money out of grandma.

Coupon-mad

Messrs_Arthur_and_Terry wrote: »

extorting money out of grandma.

You would know all about that wouldn't you Perky?

Off on hols over Christmas are you, or having a parking jolly paid for by people who dared to overlap a white line or drop their Blue Badge on the floor, and then sadly believed the threatograms your lot send out?

I thought protection rackets were illegal until I discovered this forum.

geordieracer

And Sarah Davies, from Jersey, pointed out: "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

I have a feeling she has missed the point here..