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Parking Eye - an advisory tale...

The other week my wife and i went to a retail park and had a meal at the Beefeater type restaurant there. A good time was had by all and i suddenly realised i was approaching my 2 hour maximum stay under the Parking Eye rules of contract. Of course, by then i had had a skinful and was as !!!!ed as a newt. I asked my wife if she would drive but she declined as it was dark outside and she didn't have the confidence.
Imagine how we both laughed as i was paraletic and tried to handle the car home in breach of section 4 of the 1988 RTA (driving on a public highway under the influence). I was so sozzled i could hardly stand.
Parking Eye forced me to do this of course because i had to leave the retail park or face a "penalty", and encourage patrons of that park to break the law under their terms of contract, backed up i might add by 6 senile judges at the supreme court. I'm sure the judges are fine upstanding men, however.
Isn't it funny how the law works and sometimes contradicts itself? We are still chuckling at our escapade even now.

Comments

  • How would you have got home if there was no PPc on the car park?
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • Guys_Dad
    Guys_Dad Posts: 11,025 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I don't like PPCs - at all.

    However, you were the driver and you got drunk. You didn't check in advance where you could park all night if you wanted to leave the car.

    Got to say, buddy, you have to take responsibility for your own actions.
  • enfield_freddy
    enfield_freddy Posts: 6,147 Forumite
    edited 5 November 2015 at 8:28PM
    what a stupid posting from the OP , even if parking eye were not on the premises , how would you have got home?


    if you were going to get drunk and your wife is frightened of the dark , why did you drive there ,


    have you moved to England since march this year https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5202374=


    you were TOLD that Parking eye are %issin in the wind in Scotland , so why did you not sleep in the back of the car till daylight , or 8 hrs to sober up?
  • Johno100
    Johno100 Posts: 5,259 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 5 November 2015 at 8:33PM
    Guys_Dad wrote: »
    I don't like PPCs - at all.

    However, you were the driver and you got drunk. You didn't check in advance where you could park all night if you wanted to leave the car.

    Got to say, buddy, you have to take responsibility for your own actions.

    You don't really believe it's a true story do you?:rotfl:

    Anyway the OP is in Scotland (see his user name and previous posts) and is well aware that without keeper liability he and his dear wife could, in this hypothetical situation, have caught a taxi home, picked up their vehicle the next day and safely ignored any threat-o-grams received from PE.
  • Johno100 wrote: »
    You don't really believe it's a true story do you?:rotfl:


    nope , check out his other posts
  • Well done John, it was indeed a wind up. Enfield Freddy fell for it hook line and sinker. Ha ha ha.
  • Well done John, it was indeed a wind up. Enfield Freddy fell for it hook line and sinker. Ha ha ha.


    no I did not fall for it "hook line and sinker" , I gave you the benefit of doubt.


    as from this day , any postings you make , will now not be believed.


    you are no more than a troll , please go to the children's forum
  • What a rude and arrogant man you are, probably with no girlfriend or wife. I was only having a laugh. No wonder the newbies on here are frightened to death. As for any of my future posts be believed, I couldn't care less. It's a website, not a matter of life and death. Stop winding yourself up.
  • you are the stupid one , for making the posting ,


    you may have "cried wolf" once to often now ,
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