CP Plus charge notice letter

give_them_FA

Thank goodness you have realised what utter PARASITES these parking companies are, and how they prey upon those who are too meek to put them in their place.... what you need to do to help us, NicNac, is to now spread the message to all your friends.... tell them to tell all THEIR friends... only by making ALL motorists aware of this scam, will we put these crooks out of business.

anthony1

the photo they took was via a cctv and shows me driving. is the advice still the same....ignore?

ManxRed

Yes.

Photos are meaningless in this context.

Nozone

Is such photographic 'evidence' even admissable? Someone may wish to respond to this as my knowledge is a little shaky but;

For CCTV/Photograph to be constituted as actual evidence it needs to be of a very high quality - and the overwhelming majority of CCTV cameras in the UK are not up to this standard (and I think it's safe to assume the money grabbing gits of the PPC's will have fairly shoddy CCTV). - I believe I got this information from Crimewatch or something similar, as ever, I could do with someone with more knowledge than me to either substantiate or highlight anything that's wrong here.

THEN, it is not possible to identify someone by a picture. I myself happen to have a doppleganger that lives in the United Arab Emirates (friend of a friend), extreme example I know, but I was told by another member on here that there is no way people can be identified beyond all doubt from a photograph. Sure, someone can say "it's 99% you" but the PPC's certainly can't. Drawing conclusions here, but I imagine they send the photographic 'evidence' of the driver to you so that you think 'damn, I'm caught - I'll have to admit it was me'. Then once you've acknowledged it is you they have you by the balls - the photographic 'evidence' is then completely meaningless as you've admitted 'guilt' (I use the term very loosely).

The example provided by another member here was that the police often ask if the public recognise a face/person from CCTV footage - if someone responds and says 'yes it appears to be x, y, or z person', then the police have some leads to follow up, rather than the CCTV footage being solid evidence in itself.

I'd listen to the other advice on here and just ignore the photographs. If it is a picture of the driver in the car - I can't imagine through the windscreen and with the light contrast between the interior and outside that anyone in their right mind would think it credible as anything other than toilet paper.

If it shows you outside of the car - what the hell does that prove? Come to think of it, if it shows you in the drivers seat, what the hell does that prove? Jumping to conclusions that you were the driver with no proof at all. You could have been polishing the steering wheel. You could have jumped out of the passenger seat to rest your feet on the pedals in the drivers seat. Hell - you could have been just driving around the car park and turning around in a parking bay.

Do these excuses sound flippant and absurd? I think so, but they are just as credible as the 'evidence' or whatever that the PPC's peddle.

EDIT: I'm not talking about flouting laws here or suggesting you raid a shop and think you're invincible because CCTV is perhaps a grey area. I'm suggesting that CCTV associated with the bully boys and scammers of PPC's is a steaming pile of poop that is just another bullet for the gun they don't own.