a resident took a photo,will we get fined??

pogofish

She should back that up in writing - A written record is still better evidence should she or her employer want to pursue a harassment complaint - Photos and video are fine but would normally only be admitted after other forms of evidence are considered.

note_2

i'm all for treating private parking companies with the contempt they deserve but for me residents parking boxes are a completely different thing....i went on holiday recently to west wales in a relatives flat right on the beach front, residents only, clearly signed, boxed, yet we had several people ignore this and leave us no-where but the local (£4 a day) park a few minutes walk away). and this despite us paying £16 a week for the privelidge to park outside our own property.

thankfully the fines are council enforced so the scumbags cant dodge their fines. only problem is when they sit in their car admiring the view and drive off when a officer comes round....

Coupon-mad

jez33 wrote: »

good, well given those facts if this happens next time my wife parks outside her clients home and this resident comes out taking photos with a camera ive told my wife to pick up her phone cam n start recording and pretend to call some one else on the other mobile phone but saying all sorts of personal info like which house she came out from, what she looks like, n ill pass you the video in a min for you to see her ect,, hope that will freak the resident out a bit so she will think twice next time may be!!!

Heeheee!

Reminds me of the time I parked (legally and briefly) on double yellows in a small residential road opposite my young son's school. He had just arrived back from the school trip abroad and I was collecting him and loading his cases (both instances are exemptions on double yellows of course, 'assisted alighting of a child' and loading). I was not near a junction, not obstructing anything and not in front of anyone's house let alone a drive. The houses were big, with double driveways and each house had enough a long length of side-on garden wall, enough for about 3 cars to temporarily park and load quite legitimately alongside each garden wall. In fact I was one of just 3 people along the entire road who seemed to know double yellows are OK for this purpose, so the road wasn't jam-packed or anything.

As I came straight back with my son and the cases, a woman scurried out of a nearby house, said nothing but brandished her camera. She was a few yards away. As she brought the camera up to her eye level I gave her a big cheesy grin and waved madly in greeting! Then pointed at the cases, held one up to pose for her shot and grinned again like a loon. She dropped the camera! Stupid old bag must have thought double yellows meant no parking at all (WRONG) and had nothing better to do with her days.

Obviously there was NOTHING she could do with her sad photos that she was collecting. They can't be used by a Council Parking Dept and if they had been sent to the School Headmaster with a complaint letter I would have had some fun...as well as a parent, I was staff at that school!

I like your idea. Just to check, in your case, you do KNOW that even if a fake PCN from a private company does arrive that it's always a scam? IGNORE IT. Never pay anything that impersonates a parking ticket, they can only be issued by the Police, Council or (rarely) a Train Operator like Northern Rail sometimes do in their station car parks. Anything else is 'shredding for hamster bedding'.

bazster

Parking in residents' spaces when you're not entitled so to do can cause considerable inconvenience and irritation to those residents, but I think calling on a resident in your capacity as careworker is a pretty reasonable excuse...

surfboy1

It could also be one of those PPC self ticketing opperations where a resident takes a photo and sends it of to the PPC.
If the victim pays up then the PPC give the resident £10.
Same as the other PPC invoices, IGNORE.

Stephen_Leak

surfboy1 wrote: »

It could also be one of those PPC self ticketing opperations where a resident takes a photo and sends it of to the PPC.
If the victim pays up then the PPC give the resident £10.
Same as the other PPC invoices, IGNORE.

A possibility, but there should be warning signs.

Kiko4564

Also, any private company or individual cannot issue a PCN; only the police or council can, in the same way I cannot issue PCNs to people who were to say for instance park in my drive way.

jez33

bazster wrote: »

Parking in residents' spaces when you're not entitled so to do can cause considerable inconvenience and irritation to those residents, but I think calling on a resident in your capacity as careworker is a pretty reasonable excuse...

just to clarify, my wife saw there were many spaces in the resident parking left free and she said if their was only a few left she would have parked much further away from her client...

i do feel for residents parking as my road i live in has a bit of a problem too but thats the cost of life these days if you own a car !

devonlad

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Heeheee!

Reminds me of the time I parked (legally and briefly) on double yellows in a small residential road opposite my young son's school. He had just arrived back from the school trip abroad and I was collecting him and loading his cases (both instances are exemptions on double yellows of course, 'assisted alighting of a child' and loading). I was not near a junction, not obstructing anything and not in front of anyone's house let alone a drive.


intresting about the loading of kids in the boot i mean back seats on a double yellow. I stopped to pick my kids up in pouring rain a while ago and a very angry old lady came out shouting about parking in front of her house was a crime and i should be a better example to my kids. She was right yes i should be a better example as perhaps i shouldnt like cider and maybe i should go church. But i did if my memory is correct reply back that i am a good dad and that they would normaly walk another way to be picked up but in the rain they choose to walk through shopping centre at my request. If i had known the above i would of skipped and hummed singing in the rain. another useful titbit thx coupon:j

Sir_Roger_deLodger

devonlad wrote: »

She was right yes i should be a better example as perhaps i shouldnt like cider and maybe i should go church.

Classic!..