Parking stories in the News/media

95Rollers

patient_dream said:

RE: WILL HURLEY
The man is in no position to preach, scammers do not have a voice. He is only CEO by default after the Davies -- Hurley scam was exposed by the Parking Prankster ?

And still Davies AKA Gladstones wastes the courts time trying to extort money as a result of the scam IAS.. why these two money scammers are not behind bars is beyond me.

Hopefully David's response will button the mouth of Hurley

IPC in general are in no place to preach.  Don't forget Chris Naylor one of IPC's board members is a disgraced teacher who got drunk at a school prom (where he had been paid to supervise/ safeguard children at), but instead decided to breach all safeguarding rules and lose control, get drunk, then kissed and groped his pupils - before trying to blackmail his bosses into giving him a payoff. Since being disciplined for this disgusting behaviour and indefinitely barred from teaching/ education - he waltzed into a top job at IPC!  They clearly recruit from the cream of society!

patient_dream

95Rollers said:

patient_dream said:

RE: WILL HURLEY
The man is in no position to preach, scammers do not have a voice. He is only CEO by default after the Davies -- Hurley scam was exposed by the Parking Prankster ?

And still Davies AKA Gladstones wastes the courts time trying to extort money as a result of the scam IAS.. why these two money scammers are not behind bars is beyond me.

Hopefully David's response will button the mouth of Hurley

IPC in general are in no place to preach.  Don't forget Chris Naylor one of IPC's board members is a disgraced teacher who got drunk at a school prom (where he had been paid to supervise/ safeguard children at), but instead decided to breach all safeguarding rules and lose control, get drunk, then kissed and groped his pupils - before trying to blackmail his bosses into giving him a payoff. Since being disciplined for this disgusting behaviour and indefinitely barred from teaching/ education - he waltzed into a top job at IPC!  They clearly recruit from the cream of society!

Bet he knows the BPA's UPSKIRT fella

I think that a pigsty is much cleaner than this lot

Half_way

I'm still of the opinion that anyone in the private parking industry should have a full/enhanced DBS/CRB check to weed out any dodgy people.

 After all PPCs and their employees have access to peoples personal data through the DVLA link , anyone who has any previous convictions/cautions etc for things such as violence, threatening behaviour , sexual offences, fraud , offences against under 18's and/or vulnerable adults ( including cases where someone has been dismissed from a previous job for such things) as well as other relevant offences/cautions etc should not be allowed anywhere near the data PPCs can access.

  While a full  DBS/CRB check wouldnt stop someone from abusing personal data it would stop those with a past from doing so .

As for News stories, a ray of hope as Private parking companies  are banned from accessing driver details - in Australia (Queensland)

https://www.cowraguardian.com.au/story/8084972/parking-loophole-closed-to-stop-predatory-companies/

Existing regulations have allowed private parking operators to access registration details, including names and addresses, when it is considered to be the first step of litigation.

"What we've seen is some predatory companies issuing what looked like fines, and are actually not fines, to people for overstaying in car parks," Mr Bailey told reporters on Tuesday.

"And the way it's been done has been, to be quite frank, it's been a real rip off and it's been something that's trying to exploit people rather than managing car parks."

Looks like the penny ( or cent) has dropped in Australia - which I assume has similar laws around contracts etc to the UK

Coupon-mad

Following on in a similar vein to the story about Excel Parking having a PDT machine that wasn't sending data (so they issued PCNs anyway and only appeared to cancel once enough people complained) here we have NCP doing something similar for TWO MONTHS:

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/motoring/ncp-cancel-hundreds-city-centre-8180839.amp

NCP has cancelled "hundreds" of PCNs at Siddals Road Car Park, Derby, after a crappy machine caused paying motorists to receive PCNs in the post despite having paid for their parking sessions.

PCNs issued from December until February 1st were all cancelled.

Looks to me like the usual rush to lift the BPA-emblazoned carpet and sweep the dust under it.

Despite being one of the more well-known names in parking, it looks to me like they couldn't run a you-know-what in a brewery...

I remember the NCP car park debacle a year or two ago, when they managed to set the 'exit' camera at another car park a whole hour out from the 'in' timing.  Loads of PCNs issued falsely, were seemingly only cancelled when people complained to the BPA.

Bet the BPA are not chuffed about the timing of this latest embarrassing example of what looks like plain incompetence and a woeful lack/failure of checks and balances to prevent consumer harm.

A spokesperson for NCP said:

"There are two pay machines for this car park and we could see, when we investigated this issue, that one of the machines had been intermittently cutting out due to a technical outage. 

"When we became aware of the issue we immediately cancelled all PCNs issued to customers during the time period affected. Normally when a machine is out of order, it should show a screen which states it is out of order and to pay at the other machine, but it appears this didn’t happen."

Coupon-mad

This one is very interesting:
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/law-firm-sues-trustpilot-for-defamation-over-20-negative-reviews

Not over yet...the case continues according to that article, which also tells us:

"This is not the first time BW Legal has sued over negative online reviews. Last year, it failed in a bid for a Norwich Pharmacal order aimed at uncovering the identities of people who posted reviews about it on the Glassdoor website."


NB: worth a reminder as we are on a forum: always be careful that what you post online is truth, fair opinion and in the public interest.

95Rollers

Half_way said:

I'm still of the opinion that anyone in the private parking industry should have a full/enhanced DBS/CRB check to weed out any dodgy people.

 After all PPCs and their employees have access to peoples personal data through the DVLA link , anyone who has any previous convictions/cautions etc for things such as violence, threatening behaviour , sexual offences, fraud , offences against under 18's and/or vulnerable adults ( including cases where someone has been dismissed from a previous job for such things) as well as other relevant offences/cautions etc should not be allowed anywhere near the data PPCs can access.

  While a full  DBS/CRB check wouldnt stop someone from abusing personal data it would stop those with a past from doing so .

One of Excels top managers is a disgraced police officer who was sacked and jailed for Misconduct in a public officer amongst other offences when serving with Merseyside Police. He was caught abusing his power over often vulnerable women so he could exploit their vulnerability for his own sexual gain. His name is John Forrester, if you search on Google you will find all this and he is also on LinkedIn. 

Then you've also got predators like the convicted racist misogynistic thug Peter Del Grosso and then the convicted Fraudster Dodgy Doug who was convicted for misusing motorists personal data then attempt (and also succeed) in defrauding money out of them - but still allowed to continue accessing this data he abused for his own illegal gains!

MothballsWallet

Le_Kirk said:

Coupon-mad said:

Here's yet another story about McDonalds and their completely pointless and deluded use of UKPC to issue £100 PCNs to their most loyal customers:
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/residents-parking-hell-fines-make-26027965.amp

Do you know what, McDonalds?

You DON'T NEED a parking time limit.  Never did.  Kick the PPC out.

Jeepers, "fine" and "penalty" peppered throughout that report; when will journalists start researching their subject before they go into print?

Modern journalists can't do research because that means they have to work, and work takes time out of their "entertainment time"- that's why a better term is "urinalist".

MothballsWallet

patient_dream said:

Boat_to_Bolivia said:

patient_dream said:

The best thing the Daily Mail can do is 

..... cease to exist

Where would we get a good laugh over our morning coffee or tea ?

The Metro?

MothballsWallet

patient_dream said:

TALKTV .... PIERS MORGAN & THE PRIME MINSTER
(Full interview now on YouTube)

Half way through the video, Piers asked about Parking Charges in Hospitals
A QUESTION THAT RISHI COULD OR WOULD NOT ANSWER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH9y3ywS_vQ

Rishi's more interested in obeying Biden without question than the people of this country.

In fact, the "Parody Rishi Sunak" Twitter account is a better version of him than the original.

Coupon-mad

This silly story in the Scum (sorry everyone) appears to be about a ParkingEye (typical) ANPR failure double dip:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/21513027/man-appeal-parking-fine-morrisons-leaves-people-stitches/amp/