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The Mail gets dirty
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I would get outraged at these parking charges if I felt it was true. But knowing the daily mail it's just some BS to get people angry at another establishment.
So it's likely to be very one sided and exxagerated.
If you get fined you have noone to blame other than yourselves. Parking restrictions are ALWAYS displayed. You either find a suitable spot or park in violation.
If everybody just parked anywhere the place would be overrun and you would not be able to drive anywhere.
I live near the hospital and for 3/4 streets down the roads are jam packed with cars on the weekends. I imagine for all hospitals parking is an absolute nightmare and if it was not enforced other visitors would not be able to park safely to visit their relatives.0 -
You're kidding, right? The Daily Mail is one of the worst offenders for printing articles based on PR releases instead of news. You can spot these a mile off.
They have a headline to grab your attention, refer to some dodgy research and in the 2nd or 3rd paragraph will be a website link or company name for the people who paid to have the article put together in the first place.
Michael Marshall of Merseyside Skeptics does a lot on this subject and does a talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT7ulnOKvJU if you're interested in hearing how these things work.
Is that a common occuarance with all murdochs stuff?
Murdoch recently bought vice.com it used to be very good. But recently I started noticing paid insertions and cituations in articles. I spotted two very obvious ones recently one was about online pharmacies or drugs and they had a very obvious plug on the second paragraph.
Another was the "pandora of !!!!!!" (pandora is not available in the UK, US only, it's an online radio service which streams music according to what you like - helps discover new music). The entire article was basically about an online !!!!!! stream service that did a hack job of mimicking pandora.0 -
... the daily mail it's just some BS to get people angry at another establishment....
... If you get fined you have noone to blame other than yourselves. Parking restrictions are ALWAYS displayed. You either find a suitable spot or park in violation.
Please let me have your rationale for upholding these
Double dipping
Faulty machine
wrong reg no (human error)
Leaving site (mitigation of loss)
Failing to find an empty space
Faulty machine
Ticket falls on to seat
Failing to put your hand up in Macdonalds
Breaking down
Dropping off at airports, (Not actually parking),
Not displaying an unneecassry permit in a parking space which you own or rent.
No return within xxx hours
I very much much doubt if you can for ANY of the above. I suspect Sir that you know nothing of the problem and just come here to troll.You never know how far you can go until you go too far.0 -
londonTiger wrote: »I would get outraged at these parking charges if I felt it was true. But knowing the daily mail it's just some BS to get people angry at another establishment.
If you felt what was true? That the charges are unjustifiable? If POPLA agrees with people appealing that the charges cannot be justified, then I think their word carries more weight that some bloke off the internet.londonTiger wrote: »So it's likely to be very one sided and exxagerated.
Maybe, but on this occasion they do appear to have reported accurately on an actual story instead of just regurgitating PR articles.londonTiger wrote: »If you get fined you have noone to blame other than yourselves. Parking restrictions are ALWAYS displayed. You either find a suitable spot or park in violation.
They aren't fines. They're speculative invoices for exorbitant amounts that don't stand up when they are challenged at POPLA. Also, the contracts that these systems rely on aren't fit for purpose and the signage inadequate. Add to that things such as double-dipping, medical emergencies and genuine parking tickets slipping down the dashboard and it's pretty obvious you're talking out of your derriere.londonTiger wrote: »If everybody just parked anywhere the place would be overrun and you would not be able to drive anywhere.
I live near the hospital and for 3/4 streets down the roads are jam packed with cars on the weekends. I imagine for all hospitals parking is an absolute nightmare and if it was not enforced other visitors would not be able to park safely to visit their relatives.
True enough. In which case they need to rely on an alternative method of policing such parking that doesn't inflict inflated charges and shoddy practices of the parking companies concerned onto the public at large.0 -
Seems like you can't get your facts right either!londonTiger wrote: »I would get outraged at these parking charges if I felt it was true. But knowing the daily mail it's just some BS to get people angry at another establishment.
So it's likely to be very one sided and exxagerated.
If you get fined you have noone to blame other than yourselves. Parking restrictions are ALWAYS displayed. You either find a suitable spot or park in violation.
If everybody just parked anywhere the place would be overrun and you would not be able to drive anywhere.
I live near the hospital and for 3/4 streets down the roads are jam packed with cars on the weekends. I imagine for all hospitals parking is an absolute nightmare and if it was not enforced other visitors would not be able to park safely to visit their relatives.
I could show you at least five car parks near me that are not signed up properly, including a Tesco where the entrance sign is behind the Tesco sign and impossible to see from your car!0 -
This is supposed to be a good news story about the BPA Ltd. and the PPC's finally getting the kicking they so richly deserve, please ignore the "don't park illegally and you won't get fined" ignoramuses and don't let them hijack it.Je suis Charlie.0
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