Parking Ticket......Victory?!

You are clearly guilty of falling foul of one the vast number of expensive infringements of the rules which our society now endures.

There are three issues really..

1) You might or might not have a purely technical legal loophole due to wrong information being recorded. You need GOOD legal advice on this.

2) Police systems and I suspect other systems available to enforcement agencies have "fuzzy" searches which give the answer to a question like "what cars have a registration number a bit like ..." and this type of search would find your car. You should not sit there thinking you are masked because the recorded number is a wee bit wrong.

3) Beware of expensive escalation in your "offence" if you do nothing.
 
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hmmmmmmm but they have got the details wrong in their system so I cant technically pay it online! I am thinking about preparing an appeal letter from things I have been reading in which to say that this is why I am not paying etc etc.
 
jrodga2k5 said:
hmmmmmmm but they have got the details wrong in their system so I cant technically pay it online! I am thinking about preparing an appeal letter from things I have been reading in which to say that this is why I am not paying etc etc.
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What other ways of paying are available - if online payment is the only option you have a fair point.
 
I got one a few years back for parking in an urban clearway. Didnt notice the PC had recorded the incorrect time - he put down 14.45 rather than 16.45. Paid it but got my cheque returned due to the error.

Surely if the details are wrong then they cant do anything about it!!
 
Last time my Mum got a parking ticket in Asda for parking in a disabled bay... we got a letter from them demanding the money. We just wrote back saying until you can prove it was my Mum driving the car you can go **** yourselves (well not in that language obviously). Never heard from them since, lol!

We came to the conclusion from the previous thread that the parking tickets from private companies have to be addressed to the driver and not the car owner. It is different to council parking tickets, and you do not have to tell them who was driving it :p
 
EffBee said:
What other ways of paying are available - if online payment is the only option you have a fair point.
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Well as I said mate I tried online and it didnt work, I then called so I could pay it and that was when I realised the registration number was wrong when it read it out to me....
 
Danger Phoenix said:
Last time my Mum got a parking ticket in Asda for parking in a disabled bay... we got a letter from them demanding the money. We just wrote back saying until you can prove it was my Mum driving the car you can go **** yourselves (well not in that language obviously). Never heard from them since, lol!

We came to the conclusion from the previous thread that the parking tickets from private companies have to be addressed to the driver and not the car owner. It is different to council parking tickets, and you do not have to tell them who was driving it :p
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Congratulations, glad to see you and your mum are proud of cheating the system and doing something you know is wrong!

PK!
 
jrodga2k5 said:
not on this PCCN ticket they dont!

they have the Date, the Time, Vehicle Registration, Vehicle Make, Colour, Parking Attendant Number, Violation!

Unless they mark it down anywhere else I assume they dont
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Did it not have date of offence/contravention as well as date of issue? Invalid anyway, if it didn't. Just ignore it completely. They fail.
 
its invalid whether you speak to them or not, exactly the same thing happened to me year or so back, called them up explained the ticked had the wrong reg number on and they said "fine we have removed it from the system", never asked me for my actual registration number so makes you wonder......
 
I had a ticket from Maidenhead Borough Council a few years a go. Basically I used to go to Windsor And Maidenhead Sports Association for the Disabled every monday to play cards with friends. WAMDSAD is in the middle of sports fields and is quite busy on a Monday with the rugby club meeting and the running club meeting too so the car parks get rather full and people tend to park on the kerbside of the road running through the complex.

Apparently this was getting the goat of some of the runners (tossers) who had to weave through some parked cars before starting their run and they complained to the council (tossers) who immediately informed all the clubs that parking would only be allowed in marked spaces on an on going basis. Didn't build any more spaces though did they - despite the obvious need.

So a couple of weeks later I got to the club a little late and the only spaces that were left were disabled space, which of couse I am not going to use because funnily enough the usual clientele of the club had far more need of them than I!

So I parked in the loading bay for the club kitchen. Bearing in mind this is gone 8pm and they have no deliveries at that time of night.

Come out couple of hours later to find a ticket on my screen, not happy I can tell you - do the decent thing and get fined for it.

Anyway after cooling down and getting home I read the ticket and nearly fell off my chair laughing - the ticket was for the offence of "outstaying the duration for which you had paid". In other words staying too long or underpaying.

The WAMDSAD car park is a FREE car park - no pay and display.

Goes without saying that I took the righy royal p*ss out of the payments office and got the ticket cancelled.

:D
 
jrodga2k5 said:
Personalised ones are completely different but the DVLA wont dish out a Snnn xxx plate by the looks of things!
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The DVLA dished out hundreds of thousands of Snnn xxx plates between September 1st 1998 and February 28th 1999. Just not that particular one, it would seem.
 
[TW]Fox;12840243 said:
The DVLA dished out hundreds of thousands of Snnn xxx plates between September 1st 1998 and February 28th 1999. Just not that particular one, it would seem.
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Fair enuff :)

Il probably ring them tomorrow, explain and get it cancelled :)
 
misterPK said:
Congratulations, glad to see you and your mum are proud of cheating the system and doing something you know is wrong!

PK!
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We might have felt bad if there were no disabled spaces left (I think 5 out of 8 were empty after my Mum had parked there) and there was a massive queue of disabled people who had to find somewhere else to park.

Since there was not, I do not see any reason for feeling guilty and paying the ticket that we do not have to pay. So on that note, yes we are proud of cheating the system and thank you very much for your congratulations :)
 
Danger Phoenix said:
We might have felt bad if there were no disabled spaces left (I think 5 out of 8 were empty after my Mum had parked there) and there was a massive queue of disabled people who had to find somewhere else to park.

Since there was not, I do not see any reason for feeling guilty and paying the ticket that we do not have to pay. So on that note, yes we are proud of cheating the system and thank you very much for your congratulations :)
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I take it from that remark then, that the non-disabled spaces that all the decent, unselfish people use were taken then?

:rolleyes:
 
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