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Cigarette ends and "fines"

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  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite
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    I suggest the OP goes to pepipoo.com, they do have some legal people on there and is more likely to get an accurate answer.
    Just my 1p's worth, they gave out a ticket, did you give your name and address? If not how can they chase you unless it was out of the car's window.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • rmg1
    rmg1 Posts: 3,159 Forumite
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    edited 7 September 2017 at 9:40AM
    I wasn't going to comment any further on here due to certain members offering (seemingly) abusive comments. I have, however, just checked the FPN I was given and found an error.
    The address of the alleged offence is on a street I was nowhere near.

    As coupon-mad referred to, it was Kingdom I needed to speak to to try and sort this out.

    @spadoosh - I have now invested in a pocket ashtray (waiting for it to be delivered) and, in the meantime, I have made alternative arrangements.
    :wall: Flagellation, necrophilia and bestiality - Am I flogging a dead horse? :wall:

    Any posts are my opinion and only that. Please read at your own risk.
  • Half_way
    Half_way Posts: 7,472 Forumite
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    do you have a smart phone?
    you could see if your location had been recorded on apple maps, or google maps timeline history.
    From the Plain Language Commission:

    "The BPA has surely become one of the most socially dangerous organisations in the UK"
  • beamerguy
    beamerguy Posts: 17,587 Forumite
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    Ever get the feeling you are not alone :j

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4857532/Litter-wardens-row-elderly-man-cigarette-butt.html
  • fisherjim
    fisherjim Posts: 7,111 Forumite
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    rmg1 wrote: »
    I wasn't going to comment any further on here due to certain members offering (seemingly) abusive comments. I have, however, just checked the FPN I was given and found an error.
    The address of the alleged offence is on a street I was nowhere near.

    As coupon-mad referred to, it was Kingdom I needed to speak to to try and sort this out.

    @spadoosh - I have now invested in a pocket ashtray (waiting for it to be delivered) and, in the meantime, I have made alternative arrangements.

    Fair enough but I don't see my comments as abusive, the way councils have taken on these scum firms is disgusting I agree and they are incentivised that is wrong.

    I am sorry you think I am attacking you but in no way have you shown that you think what you did is socially unacceptable, far from it.

    I have a giant bee in my bonnet against litter louts, the country is becoming a toilet and this is the tip of the iceberg.

    Just the way I see it sorry if it offends, I'm Gone!
  • DoaM
    DoaM Posts: 11,863 Forumite
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    If OP is referring to my post #3 then to call it abusive is laughable.
  • molerat
    molerat Posts: 34,562 Forumite
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    edited 7 September 2017 at 11:09AM
    Currently on BBC1 Dom On The Spot. Apparently they reckon 200M thrown away a day in the UK, quite a big pile ! And as for bio-degradeable, 12 years to decompose.
  • fisherjim
    fisherjim Posts: 7,111 Forumite
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    DoaM wrote: »
    If OP is referring to my post #3 then to call it abusive is laughable.

    No I think its me DoaM:D
  • rmg1
    rmg1 Posts: 3,159 Forumite
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    It is socially unacceptable and I'm not referring to post #3 with my comment in post #13.
    I think I'll call it quits on here.
    :wall: Flagellation, necrophilia and bestiality - Am I flogging a dead horse? :wall:

    Any posts are my opinion and only that. Please read at your own risk.
  • waamo
    waamo Posts: 10,298 Forumite
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    peter_the_piper wrote: »
    I suggest the OP goes to pepipoo.com, they do have some legal people on there and is more likely to get an accurate answer.

    As the OP seems to have missed it this is the correct answer.
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