UKPC - should I have some fun?

The_Slithy_Tove

This week I find myself visiting my local hospital quite a bit. While I am very much opposed to charging for parking at hospitals in general, I'm going with the flow (paying what is due), and have bought a weekly pass for the car park, to save having to spend a fortune shovelling pound coins into the P&D machine.

I have a "pass" which is a piece of A5 paper with loads of writing on it, and which has been stamped with my receipt in the parking office. Therefore I have fulfilled my obligations. The pass, however, doesn't say I have to display it. They don't have the registration number of my car. Therefore I feel I am perfectly at liberty to hide the pass (or, to be fair to them, leave it on the passenger seat or somewhere less obvious than the dashboard).

Should I do this, and see what happens? When the inevitable PCN arrives, should I then appeal, saying I had a pass and here it is (copy)? And then go on to POPLA and to cost UKPC money.

To add to the fun, the pass I have refers to a "penalty" charge if I don't abide by the "regulations" (whatever they are), so they'd have no hope in recovering anything from me for several reasons. Maybe I should take my wife's car, just so I can throw the "not the driver" card into the hat.

bargainsneeded

OR............ you could just park your car place the letter on the dash and get on with your day. just an idea of course.:D

The_Slithy_Tove

bargainsneeded wrote: »

OR............ you could just park your car place the letter on the dash and get on with your day. just an idea of course.:D

But why not poke the tiger with a stick? Especially when it's a toothless one.

surfboy1

bargainsneeded wrote: »

OR............ you could just park your car place the letter on the dash and get on with your day. just an idea of course.:D

That wouldnt be much fun though would it ?:)

art_for_arts_sake

The_Slithy_Tove wrote: »

But why not poke the tiger with a stick? Especially when it's a toothless one.

If it's toothless, why did you feed it in the first place?

Coupon-mad

art_for_arts_sake wrote: »

If it's toothless, why did you feed it in the first place?

Because these tigers still suck a lot of money out of victims who are fooled by their camouflage pretending to be an authority to issue a parking ticket.

NotanIdiot

park, get ticket, write back saying you will be disregarding the pcn because you have a valid authority to park, which you will be pleased to provide a copy of for £100 admin and processing fee, and nowhere does it say you have to otherwise prove your right to park.

art_for_arts_sake

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Because these tigers still suck a lot of money out of victims who are fooled by their camouflage pretending to be an authority to issue a parking ticket.

So why should OP buy a parking pass if they intend to give every impression of not having done so? I'm genuinely puzzled.

ManxRed

art_for_arts_sake wrote: »

If it's toothless, why did you feed it in the first place?

It's a nasty tiger, preying on the less informed, and taking money from innocent people which it is not legally entitled to.

It deserves more than a poke with a stick, it deserves a bloody good shoeing.

FatAndy

The_Slithy_Tove wrote: »

This week I find myself visiting my local hospital quite a bit. While I am very much opposed to charging for parking at hospitals in general, I'm going with the flow (paying what is due), and have bought a weekly pass for the car park, to save having to spend a fortune shovelling pound coins into the P&D machine.

You should move to Wales, then you'd be able to park for free on any hospital carpark for as long as you like .

Coupon-mad

art_for_arts_sake wrote: »

So why should OP buy a parking pass if they intend to give every impression of not having done so? I'm genuinely puzzled.

I would say it's to get a fake PCN from a scam firm, deliberately, as many of us would here on this board.

And then to take the appeal to 'POPLA' so that it costs said scam firm £27 plus VAT to fund that 'kangaroo court'...that informed regulars here know they can ignore afterwards...

It's about fighting back and drawing to POPLA's attention (run by London Councils) the tactics, rubbish signage and utter lack of proper appeals consideration perpetrated by many of these scumbag PPCs.