Wasnt exactly a long empty road with a warden casually strolling towards my parking spot.
Borich, is that driving off before the ticket is put on REALLY true? I would love it if it is.
Parking Ticket: Whats my play?
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Wasnt exactly a long empty road with a warden casually strolling towards my parking spot.
Borich, is that driving off before the ticket is put on REALLY true? I would love it if it is.
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And if you arrive before the 5 mins is up, and it turns out you weren't loading, then you're parked illegally.
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Yes this is true in the Council, she gets pxssed when that happens, I am not sure if this is national policy. I will find this out
the 5 min observation I will check with her when i see her tomorrow the reson why and regarding loading and unloading.
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Shes wrong, they can send you the fines in the post, happened to me.
I got off mine because I was loading.
However, this is due to the fact that:
I have a van.
I could prove where I was loading from (my house) through my council tax bill.
If you were in the car, and just popped in to town.
No chance buster!
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Shes not wrong. the policy at this Council like i said earlier is that if you have not placed the ticket on the car and they drive off the ticket is void. This may not be the case in all council's but that is how it operates here
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If you were doing an indicated 84mph on your speedo, then I'd agree.
however, if you are actually stopped for doing 84mph, then you would probably have been going at about an indicated 90mph in your car. I wouldn't be so confident of getting away without a fine in that case, particularly going past any sort of camera van.
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Yup, Hazzards give carte blanche to park where you like.......
This tbh.
I had a warden try to ticket me a while back whilst I was sat in my cab! - I started to move at a snails pace and he protested, I said if he can get the ticket on my screen before I pull away, go ahead & try....... Strangely enough, he didn't.
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Yup, Hazzards give carte blanche to park where you like.......
You can roll your eyes all you like but it works for me, I've had wardens just walk past and do nothing while I watched my car sitting on double yellows with the hazards on. Maybe the traffic wardens here are just lazy? Or you know better than my real life experiences?
Because for some unknown reason people feel that there should be no parking restrictions and they should be able to park where they like for as long as they like and basically for free.
Of course if parking caused a blocked road where they wanted to go or outside their house or actually effected their day then we'd hear all about it.
I've only had one parking ticket in my life - left a car in a residents only bit whilst doing an onsite call.
I paid early and got the half price fine.
I know that when I got my ticket my only question was:
"How can I make this fine as cheap as possible" not "How do I get out of it".
Oh how the generations have changed.
They cannot force you to pay a parking fine unless they have proof you parked illigaly, the word of the warden isnt enough. They would need photo or video evidence to make you pay.
Photo evidence needs the ticket to be in the shot, this cant be taken untill after the ticket has been written.
Does it require the ticket to be in the shot?
I couldnt find anywhere online which backed this up.
I drove off when I was being issued with a ticket, yet they then posted the fine to my employer as it was a company vehicle.
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I had a warden try to ticket me a while back whilst I was sat in my cab! - I started to move at a snails pace and he protested, I said if he can get the ticket on my screen before I pull away, go ahead & try....... Strangely enough, he didn't.
If you were moving at a snails pace, then you weren't actually parked. You were driving or kerb crawling (looking for prostitutes to murder like all truck drivers
).I just pay parking tickets when I get them. I figure that even paying the ticket will cost less than if I had paid for parking every time I should have but didn't.
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Man up and pay the ticket.
Whether you agree with any traffic rules/laws or not, they're still in place. This then presents you with a choice. Abide by them, or take a calculated risk with the knowledge that you may get caught and if so there will be a penalty to pay.
Parking attendants get an almost universally hard time, usually by people who've never bothered to consider what our towns/cities would be like if they weren't out there doing their job.
Whether you agree with any traffic rules/laws or not, they're still in place. This then presents you with a choice. Abide by them, or take a calculated risk with the knowledge that you may get caught and if so there will be a penalty to pay.
Parking attendants get an almost universally hard time, usually by people who've never bothered to consider what our towns/cities would be like if they weren't out there doing their job.
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Yup, Hazzards give carte blanche to park where you like.......
Seems to be for truckers IME.