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  • Hi, Parked on wast land within tower block visiting friends liveing in same ,ticket from UKPC should I answer it ?.
  • trisontana
    trisontana Posts: 9,472 Forumite
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    marchordie wrote: »
    Hi, Parked on wast land within tower block visiting friends liveing in same ,ticket from UKPC should I answer it ?.

    No just ignore. Please read the rest of the thread for further explanation.
    What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?
  • fisherjim
    fisherjim Posts: 7,111 Forumite
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    Went to the same carpark recently and saw their man sitting in his unmarked car waiting for people to violate their little rules and then he pounces.
    He then goes back and hides in his car, words fail me!
    I have been on their website, they have loads of job vacancies for "snitches", minimum wage, provide your own car etc.
    I thought of applying and then not issuing any tickets to see how long I lasted, and also to see what their staff training is like, and what exactly they are told to do! LOL
  • ManxRed
    ManxRed Posts: 3,530 Forumite
    You'd need a lobotomy scar or they'd spot you straight away!
    Je Suis Cecil.
  • bazster
    bazster Posts: 7,436 Forumite
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    edited 23 August 2012 at 3:51PM
    fisherjim wrote: »
    Went to the same carpark recently and saw their man sitting in his unmarked car waiting for people to violate their little rules and then he pounces.

    If it ever went to court that behaviour would be instantly fatal to their case. The judge in VCS vs. Ibbotson made it perfectly clear that the failure of the parking monkey to warn Mr. Ibbotson that he shouldn't leave the site meant that VCS had failed to mitigate their losses.

    That was just before he ruled that actually they didn't even have a contract and suggested to their legal eagle that she might want to bring a toothbrush on her next visit...
    Je suis Charlie.
  • fisherjim
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    ManxRed wrote: »
    You'd need a lobotomy scar or they'd spot you straight away!

    Well that's part one of the interview under the belt then!:D
  • Have a look at this from UKPC website:

    http://www.ukparkingcontrol.com/legal/
    Don't lie, thieve, cheat or steal. The Government do not like the competition.
    The Lord Giveth and the Government Taketh Away.
    I'm sorry, I don't apologise. That's just the way I am. Homer (Simpson)
  • bazster
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    Utter cobblers.
    Je suis Charlie.
  • taffy056
    taffy056 Posts: 4,895 Forumite
    Have a look at this from UKPC website:

    http://www.ukparkingcontrol.com/legal/

    It's garbage, basically legal claptrap. Precedents are not set in lower courts like the small claims, something they conveniently forget to mention. They also fail to mention that after the upper tier decision on hmrc v vcs which is binding on lower courts, that they have no legal right to offer parking or taking cases to the small claims, unless they basically own the land.
    Excel Parking, MET Parking, Combined Parking Solutions, VP Parking Solutions, ANPR PC Ltd, & Roxburghe Debt Collectors. What do they all have in common?
    They are all or have been suspended from accessing the DVLA database for gross misconduct!
    Do you really need to ask what kind of people run parking companies?
  • SodG24
    SodG24 Posts: 1,123 Forumite
    Have a look at this from UKPC website:

    http://www.ukparkingcontrol.com/legal/

    I really can't understand why they wouldn't want to update their website with the VCS case - it's bizarre ! :cool:
    All aboard the Gus Bus !
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