Parking stories in the News/media

Coupon-mad

He does, I hear, between holidays...!

Boat_to_Bolivia

Coupon-mad said:

He does, I hear, between holidays...!

No excuses then 

daveyjp

Trying to understand how to pay an evening rate if you arrive before the time it starts can be a nightmare.  Our local city centre car parks need a sign half the size of the machine to explain how to pay for part day rate and night rate.

Grizebeck

Coupon-mad said:

He does, I hear, between holidays...!

You know me to well turkey next week as i am due a rest!!!

Half_way

And another one, this time a parking charge notice for turning around on yellow hatch marks
 https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/mcdonalds-mcmuffin-order-lands-diner-8239644

Coupon-mad

Disabled blue badge holder 'fined' £100 for 'overstay' despite the fact their best mate Helen Dolphin has already tested with a court case (Council PCNs, but same argument) that disabled people must be offered more time for their money:

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1748451/Couple-parking-fine-theatre-show-overruns/amp

Coupon-mad

Chap beats Britannia in court:

https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/22/man-claims-victory-after-winning-court-case-over-4-50-parking-ticket-18488124/amp/

https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/people/peterborough-man-claims-victory-for-the-small-man-after-winning-court-case-against-parking-firm-over-ps450-ticket-4069804

Coupon-mad

Think we missed this one?

Premier Park named and shamed for what looks like two classic double dip situations that the irked victims are right to consider 'a lie':
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fuming-couple-who-were-hit-29400166.amp

" Barbara says he always parks in their own car park along with his colleagues, adding: "We haven't parked in Matalan's car park for more than an hour. We absolutely, categorically haven't parked in Matalan's car park where we think these cameras are...We're not going to take this lying down." 

" ...it's an absolute joke... We're not paying a single penny, I'm happy to go to court, I'm happy to prove there's nothing we've done wrong. "

Coupon-mad

Here we have the oft-described as 'rogue ex-clampers' VCS refusing an appeal from a driver whose medical condition caused her to make an emergency stop at Bristol Airport:
https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/23399342.bristol-airport-fines-driver-fractured-spine-stopping-car/

The IPC (IAS, same difference, some may say) also rejected the appeal.  Shame on them.

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"Lisa Tweedie, a doctor from Malmesbury, was fined after driving her friend to the airport in December.

At the time, Dr Tweedie, who suffers from Ehlers-Danlos syndromes which reduces her mobility, was unaware she fractured her spine when she fell a week earlier.

When her back went into spasm at the airport she feared it was not safe to continue driving and was forced to pull over on double red lines outside the Hampton by Hilton hotel."

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And when a complaint went to Bristol Airport they are reportedly faffing around "looking at the footage" and whinging as if they actually think their hired goon ex-clampers at VCS were right - DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE AIRPORT BYELAWS ALLOW EMERGENCY STOPS!

Ermmm... someone should point that out to Dr Lisa Tweedie.  Send her here and get the Airport to read and abide by the exemption in their own byelaws.

Umkomaas

Coupon-mad said:

Chap beats Britannia in court:

https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/22/man-claims-victory-after-winning-court-case-over-4-50-parking-ticket-18488124/amp/

https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/people/peterborough-man-claims-victory-for-the-small-man-after-winning-court-case-against-parking-firm-over-ps450-ticket-4069804

It was very nerve wracking, as if I had lost I would have had a CCJ against me and my credit rating would have fallen through the floor.

Yet another getting this so wrong!