Laughable Parking Ticket

gobbo · 26 Nov 2008 at 13:46

Found this following a good search on them:

http://www.roadsidelawyer.co.uk/que...ial-private-parking-fine-received-in-bradford

If it needs a £25 solicitors letter to get rid of them, i'm pretty sure you could just write a letter telling them to get lost and you won't hear from them again.

BigglesPiP · 26 Nov 2008 at 21:33

Send them a drawing of a spider as payment.

mrgubby · 26 Nov 2008 at 21:51

BigglesPiP said:
Send them a drawing of a spider as payment.

make sure it's got the correct number of legs.......

Skeeter · 26 Nov 2008 at 21:54

BigglesPiP said:
Send them a drawing of a spider as payment.

With 7 legs!

LOL

stoofa · 27 Nov 2008 at 00:35

gareth.e said:
Yay!!!

Lets trash threads due to ignorance and being stupid enough to not even bother reading the OP, let alone the rest of the thread - top stuff.

Ummm - no.
I read the original post.
The guy parked WITHOUT displaying a valid parking permit.
He got a ticket.

What he should be doing is saying "Damn, I really should have displayed a valid parking permit and then I wouldn't have got a ticket".
Next he should pay his fine.

So sorry - yes I did read the OP.
So ummm you can....well you know what you can do.

Simon · 27 Nov 2008 at 00:45

Trojan said:
I went to see my brother yesterday, parked in his apartment's car park and promptly forgot to display the permit holders badge. Came back to the car an hour later to find a penalty charge on it. Opened it to find that they want to fine me a sum of £60, and if it's not paid within 10 days then they'll add £3 for everyday that it goes unpaid! I've heard of unreasonable charges before but that takes the biscuit. Needless to say, it's from a scamming parking company with no legal grounds to enforce anything so I won't be paying them a penny.

Anyone else had a more ridiculous parking ticket?

Yep £165 to remove a clamp from my car, the car was parked in the car park of my flat, just the wrong space as someone was in mine.

I would have been happier with £60!

BigglesPiP · 27 Nov 2008 at 01:35

Simon said:
Yep £165 to remove a clamp from my car, the car was parked in the car park of my flat, just the wrong space as someone was in mine.

I would have been happier with £60!

Surely would have been cheaper to rent a grinder.

Fr0dders · 27 Nov 2008 at 01:50

BigglesPiP said:
Surely would have been cheaper to rent a grinder.

and be sued for criminal damage ? me thinks not

Wonder what would happen though if you took a wheel jack down there, jacked the car up, removed the wheel using a wheel brace. Gently lifted the clamp off the wheel and handed it back to the parking company ?

Davy644 · 27 Nov 2008 at 02:33

BigglesPiP said:
Send them a drawing of a spider as payment.

That was brilliant cant remember the thread were it came from

Fr0dders · 27 Nov 2008 at 02:36

Davy644 said:
That was brilliant cant remember the thread were it came from

thats been all over the internet has that.

Killa_ken · 27 Nov 2008 at 03:34

I hate all parking people. They are unbelievably stupid, one of my friends' car was being towed (she drives a 01 eclipse or around then) and when we returned we witnessed them trying to load it on the back, however as they did this they were scraping the bumper, they couldn't actually get it on due to it being fairly low so they kept shuffling it back and forth completely wrecking the front end. After my disbelief and awe disappeared I informed them that they will be receiving a letter from the district attorney (I made this up) and they will be taken to the cleaners. The **** called "Jebediah" pronounced Jebdai told us he'd got it stuck through no fault of his own : /

Trojan · 27 Nov 2008 at 07:54

-Ad- said:
Excellent, send them a jokey letter before you emigrate

I'm giving serious consideration to contacting them via phone and taking the complete and utter **** whilst recording the call

csmager said:
I've got one of these for leaving my car for 2hrs and 6 minutes in Curry's (6 minutes over the 2hr limit - which I never saw written anywhere in the car park).

Obviously ANPR given the times were written to the second. Though they do say I can have photographic evidence for £10 - any chance they've actually got it?!

I might send that letter for a bit of sport - any thoughts on what the worst that could happen is? CCJ? Or would they not even bother taking it to court? And before you all start, I know it's evil that I'm attempting to get away with an offence that was actually committed, but it was 6 minutes and I was actually shopping in the 2 shops there. I'm not too bothered about the money...

Don't pay them a penny, if it's a private parking company. There is NOTHING that they can do. The worst that will happen is that they keep sending you letters before referring to court. In this event, they almost certainly drop the case before it gets there as they have no legal standing. I don't think there has been 1 case yet where a PPC has actually shown up to court.

stoofa said:
Ummm - no.
I read the original post.
The guy parked WITHOUT displaying a valid parking permit.
He got a ticket.

What he should be doing is saying "Damn, I really should have displayed a valid parking permit and then I wouldn't have got a ticket".
Next he should pay his fine.

So sorry - yes I did read the OP.
So ummm you can....well you know what you can do.

If you want to pay £60 to a dodgy company with no legal basis who deploy dubious tactics for a slight mistake, then be my guest. Myself however? I don't respond well to threats and extortion. I'll not be paying them anything

Simon said:
Yep £165 to remove a clamp from my car, the car was parked in the car park of my flat, just the wrong space as someone was in mine.

I would have been happier with £60!

Clampers are very dodgy, they really do obtain money under menaces. I try not to park anywhere in which a clamping company operates.

Killa_ken said:
I hate all parking people. They are unbelievably stupid, one of my friends' car was being towed (she drives a 01 eclipse or around then) and when we returned we witnessed them trying to load it on the back, however as they did this they were scraping the bumper, they couldn't actually get it on due to it being fairly low so they kept shuffling it back and forth completely wrecking the front end. After my disbelief and awe disappeared I informed them that they will be receiving a letter from the district attorney (I made this up) and they will be taken to the cleaners. The **** called "Jebediah" pronounced Jebdai told us he'd got it stuck through no fault of his own : /

Sounds like a typical PPC employee. Did anything actually get done about the damage?

Davy644 · 27 Nov 2008 at 08:09

MrLOL said:
and be sued for criminal damage ? me thinks not

Wonder what would happen though if you took a wheel jack down there, jacked the car up, removed the wheel using a wheel brace. Gently lifted the clamp off the wheel and handed it back to the parking company ?

Most devises these companys use will come off, just deflate your tyre,I seen it on Dave

Wossi · 27 Nov 2008 at 09:43

I had to pay £60 to get a wheel clamp off my car as I was 2 minutes over the time :/

mejinks · 27 Nov 2008 at 10:01

Wossi said:
I had to pay £60 to get a wheel clamp off my car as I was 2 minutes over the time :/

Thats illegal for a start. There is a certain leeway they have to give.

Did the clamper show you his SIA badge? To not show it or show a photocopy of it is a crminal offence in itself.

Did the receipt have the full company address/registration/directors name? If it didn't, its an offence under the companies act.

Trojan · 28 Nov 2008 at 07:43

mejinks said:
Thats illegal for a start. There is a certain leeway they have to give.

Did the clamper show you his SIA badge? To not show it or show a photocopy of it is a crminal offence in itself.

Did the receipt have the full company address/registration/directors name? If it didn't, its an offence under the companies act.

Like I said, clampers really are a bunch of dodgy cowboys.