Met parking ticket

dwyern

My father has just received a ticket from Met after overstaying in mcdonalds by 20 mins. It features pictures of him entering and leaving. It demands he pays £50 in next 14 days or £100 thereafter. I called Mcdonalds and they said if I had no receipt for my meal they couldn't help. I'm not sure who keeps a mac receipt for 2 weeks!!! I've told him to just ignore it but he is a law abiding citizen and feels nervous doing so. Will they enforce this ticket or is it (as I believe) to be unenforcable? Please advise me and help me to convince my father.

Inflatable_Armadillo

dwyern wrote: »

My father has just received a ticket from Met after overstaying in mcdonalds by 20 mins. It features pictures of him entering and leaving. It demands he pays £50 in next 14 days or £100 thereafter. I called Mcdonalds and they said if I had no receipt for my meal they couldn't help. I'm not sure who keeps a mac receipt for 2 weeks!!! I've told him to just ignore it but he is a law abiding citizen and feels nervous doing so. Will they enforce this ticket or is it (as I believe) to be unenforcable? Please advise me and help me to convince my father.

He can carry on being a law abiding citizen... mainly because he hasn't broken any laws. As such, ignoring an unenforceable invoice (make sure he knows that is what it actual is, just an invoice) from a bunch of scammers who sail very close to the edge of law should be right up his street.

If he went into McDonalds and ordered his Big Mac and fries and sat down, then after 15 minutes into his meal, they told him that McDonalds only allowed him 10 minutes to eat his meal! They think this is long enough to eat their fast food and because there was a sign saying so behind the till and then, by purchasing the food, he had clearly entered into a contract, agreeing that he would pay them £30 if he took longer, and here was an invoice, what do you think he would say? Do you think he would pay them or walk out and tell them to stick the invoice where the sun does not shine?

Can you tell me the difference?

Ignore the scammers and print off the Met Parking letter chain from the sticky at the top of this forum, so he knows what he is going to get.

He has broken no laws, they will not take him to court... they will try to demand money from him, but then they will give an move on.

SodG24

dwyern wrote: »

My father has just received a ticket from Met after overstaying in mcdonalds by 20 mins. It features pictures of him entering and leaving. It demands he pays £50 in next 14 days or £100 thereafter. I called Mcdonalds and they said if I had no receipt for my meal they couldn't help. I'm not sure who keeps a mac receipt for 2 weeks!!! I've told him to just ignore it but he is a law abiding citizen and feels nervous doing so. Will they enforce this ticket or is it (as I believe) to be unenforcable? Please advise me and help me to convince my father.

It really shows how poor McDonalds customer service is !!!!

Given it's specifically about McDonalds show him this link :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM2qA_ElF5A

crazyguy

Yes it is money via menace and I wish they would ticket me as I would take them to Court stupid low life degenerates.

dwyern

Thanks soo much crazyguy for your ever so helpful reply

booter

Just tell him what I told my Mum when she got one - "Don't you dare pay it. If they take you to court, I'll pay it myself" - I've still got my cash:)