App offers users £10 rewards for snitching on illegally parked cars

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The controversial app offers a £10 cash reward for each reported car (CLIVE DIXON/REX/Shutterstock)

Users can simply upload a picture of the offending vehicle, along with its registration number.

Created by UK Car Park Management’s (UK CPM), the app is designed by use commercial or residential land owners that don’t have the funds to patrol their car parking areas.

Any car that parks there can be snapped and reported – with the user receiving £10 for each illegally parked car nabbed.

The app is available on both iOS and Android with the app maker promising “complete privacy” to user who report drivers.

Critics have slammed the app as being a ‘recipe for disaster’.

“The sharp practices of parking companies are already regularly called into question with paid officials dishing out fines, but with members of the public being financially encouraged to shop motorists who overstay, it’s a recipe for disaster.

twhitehousescat

as discussed "many" times on the parking ticket forum "norris" will not get paid unless the mug pays up , "norris" will look stupid when TOLD he has to appear in CC , did "norris" expect that for his queens shilling?

other "apps" and upload settups have been available for many yrs ,

CLIVE DIXON/REX/Shutterstock are having a quiet newsday and dragged this one back up

AdrianC

At least credit where you've copy'n'pasted your post from.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/app-offers-users-10-rewards-for-snitching-on-illegally-parked-cars-121845806.html

Mercdriver

AdrianC wrote: »

At least credit where you've copy'n'pasted your post from.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/app-offers-users-10-rewards-for-snitching-on-illegally-parked-cars-121845806.html

Not only that if the OP had bothered to look through the forum on to page 2, it's already been covered:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5597000

koiboy wrote: »

AN UNPOPULAR British parking firm has released an app designed to turn ordinary people into traffic wardens.
A company called UK Car Park Management has offered people a bounty of £10 if they use its app to grass up people who are parked illegally.
Traitorous busybodies will be able to confidentially submit pictures of fellow Britons in exchange for a small sum of money.
Their unlucky victims will then be hit with a massive £60 fine which quickly turns into £100 if they don’t pay up within 14 days.
The sneaky app is designed to trick customers into thinking they have been caught by a real parking warden and will mask the identity of the person who dobbed them in.
Landowners will also be able to use the app to set up their own no-parking zones.
http://uk-carparkmanagement.co.uk/services/parking-enforcement/self-ticketing

If it becomes too popular, then parking wardens will get laid off. Now some might have no sympathy for them, but that will mean fewer people paying tax and more people claiming benefit.

twhitehousescat

producing contracts could be fun? parking Cos enter into a contract with the land owner , I wonder how many people signing up and buying signs will be or are capable of signing away rights to thier land (for long periods) to a PPC , they may find that a staff member (warden) from the company rolls up and tickets thier wives/childrens cars thru "not having a permit"


poor norris , it might backfire