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Newbie thread: go to the top of this page and find these words: Main site > MoneySavingExpert.com Forums > Household & Travel > Motoring > Parking Tickets, Fines & Parking. Click on words Parking Tickets, Fines & Parking. Newbie thread is the first post. Blue New Thread button is just above it to left.

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  • Stroma
    Stroma Posts: 7,971 Forumite
    Uniform Washer
    She will win it on fluttering ticket if appealed correctly
    When posting a parking issue on MSE do not reveal any information that may enable PPCs to identify you. They DO monitor the forum.
    We don't need the following to help you.
    Name, Address, PCN Number, Exact Date Of Incident, Date On Invoice, Reg Number, Vehicle Picture, The Time You Entered & Left Car Park, Or The Amount of Time You Overstayed.
    :beer: Anti Enforcement Hobbyist Member :beer:
  • The_Deep
    The_Deep Posts: 16,830 Forumite
    Why do people put these tickets upside down on dash boards? I do not expect they place milk jugs thusly in their fridges.
    You never know how far you can go until you go too far.
  • bod1467
    bod1467 Posts: 15,214 Forumite
    The_Deep wrote: »
    Why do people put these tickets upside down on dash boards? I do not expect they place milk jugs thusly in their fridges.

    You're assuming that she did do so. As Stroma suggests it is far more likely that the ticket flipped over or around (fluttered) when the car door was closed. (Ignore the misleading article title - the ticket was NOT "stuck to the windscreen upside down" - the article text makes the actual situation clear).
  • The_Deep
    The_Deep Posts: 16,830 Forumite
    You're assuming that she did do so.

    No, just making an observation.
    You never know how far you can go until you go too far.
  • bod1467
    bod1467 Posts: 15,214 Forumite
    The_Deep wrote: »
    You're assuming that she did do so.

    No, just making an observation.

    No, you're assuming that most people do this deliberately. The way your reply is worded leads to assumption rather than observation ... after all, you didn't observe her do this, and I doubt you have observed anyone else do likewise. ;)
  • The_Deep
    The_Deep Posts: 16,830 Forumite
    I am assuming nothing.

    Please do not attribute to others feelings thoughts actions and intentions which they have not specifically admitted.

    What I am suggesting is that many who come on here with "fluttering tickets" may well not have placed them correctly in the first place.

    As I said on another thread recently, in over 50 years I have never had a problem with an upside down ticket, yet hundreds of people on here appear to have been affected by the syndrome.

    If, and only if, the OP placed her ticket printed side down, then, in my opinion, she has no cause to complain.
    You never know how far you can go until you go too far.
  • bod1467
    bod1467 Posts: 15,214 Forumite
    The_Deep wrote: »
    Please do not attribute to others feelings thoughts actions and intentions which they have not specifically admitted.

    Which you then go on to do yourself in the remainder of your post. :rotfl:
  • The_Deep
    The_Deep Posts: 16,830 Forumite
    Which you then go on to do yourself in the remainder of your post.

    How so? Did you nor see the word "appear"?
    You never know how far you can go until you go too far.
  • prosnap
    prosnap Posts: 399 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    A fine does not seem like a fitting punishment for the heinous crime this woman has committed.

    I say we should bring back hanging for crimes like this.

    In fact ... Let's hang draw and quarter her for good measure. That would set the right example to all the other future offenders.
    The word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary
    Tickets: 19 [cancelled: 18, paid: 0, pending: 1]
    PPC Appeals: 8 [accepted: 2, rejected: 5, pending: 1]
    POPLA: 4 [accepted: 4, rejected: 0, pending: 0]
  • Cyberman60
    Cyberman60 Posts: 2,472 Forumite
    Hung up my suit!
    Some people have poor eyesight but also it's easy to do if you're in a rush with kids etc. To treat somebody like this when they've paid is totally unforgivable IMO. It shows what jobsworths we have today and how councils put scamming money from law-abiding people at top priority while feathering their own nests with gold-plated pensions etc.

    I once put a stamp on a Xmas card upside-down in error but have never heard the last of it from my bullying mother...... it happens !!!
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