Real-life MMD: Who should pay the parking fine?

chrimson

You have parked there many times before and got away with it. Who would you have asked to pay the fine if you had been caught then?
If YOU park illegally (for whatever reason) then YOU pay the fine.
Bet you don't do it again

Kitty-Kat_4

I can understand you annoyance - doing someone a favour and ending up out of pocket, but at the end of the day your mum asked you to pick up milk and biccies - she didn't ask you to park illegally in order to do it. Sorry but you just have to accept that it's no one's fault but your own. I'd check the legality of the penalty notice first though.

Kat's_Dad

Learn from it - don't park illegally. Try parking legally and using the two things below your body. They're called legs and you walk with them! Pay up and look big!

jewel*queen

Your mother didn't tell you to park there, and even if she did you are old enough to make your own decisions. So on this particular day you didn't get away with it. Think yourself lucky you haven't been caught before. Will it make you think twice about parking there again? You've learned the hard way. Cough up and move on.

Talent

Pay for your own stupidity, it's people like you that hold up hard working delivery drivers....

Trev1098

You should pay your a 25 year old adult and you parked the car

Billy_Bonkers

People who block loading bays off with a car are often the same ones who park inconsiderately in the middle of a lay-by thereby preventing lorries from getting in. They are usually the first to complain when whatever it was they wanted to buy in the shop is out of stock.
May be, just may be the lorry with that very item onboard passed down the street 30 minutes earlier but finding the loading bay blocked by a car and there being nowhere else to stop without blocking the whole street off, had to go round the block. (which can be sizeable for a lorry in a town). Maximum driving time without a break (4.5 hrs) now up, so has to stop for a statutory 45 minute break. Result, delivery delayed by an hour plus, all due to one inconsiderate car driver.
ALL new car drivers should have to spend a day in the cab of a working big lorry, it would be a huge eye opener.

OK rant over, just looking at it from a different perspective that not many stop to think of. (yes, I have a C+E license).

Agree with many other posters who say the OP should take responsibility for his own actions. A polite request for a contribution would be in order.

(On a side note, if its a loading bay it will almost certainly be a penalty notice NOT a private parking charge)

bud1950

pay up. its your fault not your mothers.

richy_rich_2

Oft, of course you should pay, its not your mums fault.

I suppose if you were driving and she phoned you and you answered the call and where then caught by the police, that would be your mums fault aswell.

If you had parked in the loading bay another time when your mum hadnt asked for a favour and been caught would you have parked there again, probably not.

take the hit and pay the fine. and if your 25, still living with your mum, have 3 jobs and are still struggling financially, you should be asking yourself some questions.

Afia2k8

If it's from a Private Parking Company, ignore it. If it's from the Council, pay up. But in this case, it is your responsibility although I would try asking your mum to pay 50:50 as she's partly to blame.

Have a read up here on parking tickets (remove asterisk):
- moneysavingexpert.*com/reclaim/private-parking-tickets
- forums.pepipoo.*com