Parking ticket

grilli

My partner parked her car outside our house last night after coming down from Preston for a few days, unloaded car of luggage kids etc, left the car there over night woke this morning to find a parking ticket on windscreen. Fair enough there are yellow lines outside but after unloading everything didnt think about them when our 9 week old is busy screaming her head off wanting feeding. on the ticket it says the car was there from 8:52 to 8:56 which again fair enough it was, but surely 4 minutes isnt enough time for the traffic warden to walk our street and come back (the roads about 2 1/2 miles). we're now left with the option of paying or taking it to court, is there any likelyhood of not paying?

Poppy9

The tend to just stand around for those 4 minutes seeing if anyone will turn up to the car. There is a traffic warden on this site perhaps he can help. There are rules and conditions on the issue of tickets with regard to yellow lines. Also different rules if issued by Police traffic warden or Council traffic warden

derrick

You still left it there all night, so 4minutes or 8 hours it sounds like you illegaly
parked,you admit you have, so pay it and learn;)

grilli

yeah i admit it was overnight, but the traffic warden didnt know that. it just seemed harsh to be issued a ticket for 4 minutes, all he had to do was knock the door and ask us to move it and we would have.

derrick

grilli wrote:

yeah i admit it was overnight, but the traffic warden didnt know that. it just seemed harsh to be issued a ticket for 4 minutes, all he had to do was knock the door and ask us to move it and we would have.

That is not his job, you left it there knowing about the yellow lines,it`s no use blaming someone else, the courts will not listen to you if that is your "excuse"
The ticket can be issued within 1 minute if you broke the parking regs.
What yellow lines were they? double,single with time limits,did you break the regs? if yes you will have to pay, if not then challenge it. Good luck

aliasojo

Sorry grilli, I agree with derrick.

It can't be one law for you and another for everyone else I'm afraid. You were parked where you shouldn't have parked....end of.

Parking tickets suck.......but just accept it and move on imo.

mike_the_bike_2

That one day EVERYONE refuses to pay their parking ticket and simply ignores them..The whole court system would quicly collapse and these stupid beaurocrats that make up these tax raising schemes would realise that people are sick to death of them and their legalised robbery.

andy88_2

Mike if someone drives throught the village at 70 mph, knocks over and kills 2 children, I'd rather like to think that your paranoid aversion to the legal system would not already have succeeded in destroying the stupid bureaucrats and the whole court system responsible for infringing the liberties of the respectable members of society involved.

something missing alright

derrick

andy88 wrote:

Mike if someone drives throught the village at 70 mph, knocks over and kills 2 children, I'd rather like to think that your paranoid aversion to the legal system would not already have succeeded in destroying the stupid bureaucrats and the whole court system responsible for infringing the liberties of the respectable members of society involved.

something missing alright

In total agreement.

If every body parked where they wanted nobody would be able to drive any where as we would have one almighty car park

mike_the_bike_2

I like it when people take the bait ..hook line and sinker

chillipepper_3

There are far too many restrictions with parking, the whole thing is a joke. last year I travelled into central London to do a days work, it was in a residential square and I parked directly outside the building. Now I had to get the parking permit from the customer and there was a gentleman on the door of the building. By the time it took me to get up 5 flights of stairs, knock on a door, say a quick hello, ask for the permit (turned out they didn't have one available) then run down the stairs to move the van..........it had gone........heart sank thought it was pinched, the guy on the door was over the road talking to a resident, they both came over and said the very second I had gone into the building a warden appeared from over the square, the truck was there before he had finished completing the ticket and they took it away. Even though the gent on the door said I had just arrived and was working here. I was away 5-10 minutes at tops..I had a tshirt on, all money, cards, coat, tools in the van. Now raining I trawelled around London ending up at a Police station who pointed me in the direction of the compound under Marble Arch. 3 hours later I had to be escorted to the van as all cards and money was in there......the cost ..........£250.....lost a days work, went overdrawn with the bank(further£75) and the van wasn't even worth much more than the fine.
The warden had obviously seen me pull up from over the square, and how unlucky that the lifting lorry was only streets away when she obviously called them. There was no need at all. Their should be some time limit before they can lift your vehicle and the costs of these fines are getting stupid.