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Car Impounded, any advice please?
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Can anybody help with any advice?
Yes, you could of read the signs visible telling you not to park there without displaying the proper badge or you would be towed...
Or decide to take the chance being a selfish !!!!! and park in a disabled space. Get caught and towed, and then have the cheek to maon about it.
You chose the latter. You chose wrong.0 -
Yes, you could of read the signs visible telling you not to park there without displaying the proper badge or you would be towed...
Or decide to take the chance being a selfish !!!!! and park in a disabled space. Get caught and towed, and then have the cheek to maon about it.
You chose the latter. You chose wrong.
i think this is a bit unfair, as the op says there were plenty of disabled spaces available had the need for one arrived.
im all for fining folk who dont have the right to use a disabled spaces,when the car park is busy at peak times but not when its empty,this is just ridiculous....work permit granted!0 -
I'm intrigued that someone has no money for food or public transport can afford the tax, insurance and fuel for a car0
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Too many disabled spaces anyway.0
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I assume that this was on the street and not in a private car park?
If so you have no option but to pay up if you are admitting the offence.
If it was a private car park then there are legal requirements that need to be followed before a car can be removed and/or clamped. For a start the operative (not the Company) doing the deed must be SSA Licensed. There must be suitable and visible signing that includes the rules for parking or not parking as the case may be, the Name of the Company Operating the Scheme, the Charges and a contact address and telephone number of how to retrieve/unclamp the vehicle. If any of this information is missing, then it is a Criminal Act by the person doing the deed and the police should be called. You wil probably find the police say it's nothing to do with them as it's a Civil Matter. This is true, but not if any of the SSA Requirements are not be observed/performed when it then becomes a Criminal matter that the police should act upon.0 -
goldspanners wrote: »i think this is a bit unfair, as the op says there were plenty of disabled spaces available had the need for one arrived.
im all for fining folk who dont have the right to use a disabled spaces,when the car park is busy at peak times but not when its empty,this is just ridiculous.
Certainly an argument for having disabled bays at one point during the day, and making them 'regular' bays at another. But in this case they were disabled bays 24/7.
Can't do the time, don't do the crime. And certainly don't whinge about it afterwards.0 -
Certainly an argument for having disabled bays at one point during the day, and making them 'regular' bays at another. But in this case they were disabled bays 24/7.
Can't do the time, don't do the crime. And certainly don't whinge about it afterwards.
that all costs money. and its hardly crime of the century is it?...work permit granted!0
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