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  • Aaron_Aadvark
    Aaron_Aadvark Posts: 238 Forumite
    bazster wrote: »
    The MET weasel notes the details of all the vehicles in the car park and then goes into McD's and demands that all present account for their vehicles. Any vehicles unaccounted for will get ticketed.

    This extraordinarily impertinent practice has been related often enough here and on PePiPoo for us to know it is their standard M.O. at McD's. We still don't know how they account for customers who are in the crapper, even less so if the incontinent customer in question is of a different gender to the parking weasel.

    God only knows why anyone goes to McD's in order to be subjected to this kind of Big Brother surveillance.

    So presumably the requirement to identify oneself is included in the "contract" displayed in the signs?
    Je suis Charlie
  • bazster
    bazster Posts: 7,436 Forumite
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    Aaron_Aadvark wrote: »
    So presumably the requirement to identify oneself is included in the "contract" displayed in the signs?

    What do you think? ;)
    Je suis Charlie.
  • roddydogs
    roddydogs Posts: 7,479 Forumite
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    & if there 4 people & 1 goes to get the paper?, then 1 of those 3 left will identify the car?
  • bazster
    bazster Posts: 7,436 Forumite
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    roddydogs wrote: »
    & if there 4 people & 1 goes to get the paper?, then 1 of those 3 left will identify the car?

    No reason why not. They can't claim passengers are liable for a breach of contract anyway, only the driver could have entered into a contract, the passengers can do as they please.

    Not that this stops them trying. One PPC even words its "offence" "Driver/Passengers Left Site". Well which is it? And if it's passengers, so what? Mind you, this is the same PPC which words its signs to the effect that Blue Badge holders must park in a disabled-marked space, whilst not actually forbidding anyone else from parking in them!
    Je suis Charlie.
  • Herzlos
    Herzlos Posts: 16,064 Forumite
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    I wonder what'd happen if people just started claiming to own a car if no-one else does, to avoid the penalty? Would they start asking for proof?
  • bazster
    bazster Posts: 7,436 Forumite
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    Herzlos wrote: »
    I wonder what'd happen if people just started claiming to own a car if no-one else does, to avoid the penalty? Would they start asking for proof?

    It'd be hilarious if someone sat there and claimed all the cars!
    Je suis Charlie.
  • bargepole
    bargepole Posts: 3,238 Forumite
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    bazster wrote: »
    God only knows why anyone goes to McD's in order to be subjected to this kind of Big Brother surveillance.



    God only knows why anyone goes to McD's at all. Soggy nasty burgers, chips like matchsticks, tasteless coffee, surly teenagers serving you, fat slag mums in shellsuits and Croydon facelifts with screaming brats, and they have the cheek to describe this hell on earth as a 'restaurant'. Vomitorium would be nearer the mark.

    I have been providing assistance, including Lay Representation at Court hearings (current score: won 57, lost 14), to defendants in parking cases for over 5 years. I have an LLB (Hons) degree, and have a Graduate Diploma in Civil Litigation from CILEx. However, any advice given on these forums by me is NOT formal legal advice, and I accept no liability for its accuracy.
  • I-LOV-MONEY
    I-LOV-MONEY Posts: 1,279 Forumite
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    It needs someone to shout to everybody else not to identify their cars. They would then have to either leave them or ticket everybody !

    Seriously do a PPC have a legal right to enter into premises and ask people to identify their cars?
    Thank you for reading this message.
  • Half_way
    Half_way Posts: 7,551 Forumite
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    Sparticus?
    From the Plain Language Commission:

    "The BPA has surely become one of the most socially dangerous organisations in the UK"
  • bod1467
    bod1467 Posts: 15,214 Forumite
    PA: Does anyone have their car parked outside in the car park?
    ME: Yes
    PA: Which car is it?
    ME: None of your fsking business!

    :D
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