Parking ticket!

[DANINPLYMOUTH]

Just managed to get a parking ticket on my sv not very impressed. Was at a large car-park and it has large concrete islands with trees in seperating areas of the car park. Any way bikes used to always park on these, after i got my ticket i was informed that a different company now runs the car park and it isnt allowed. I was only trying to help out and not take up a parking spot which is why im annoyed cause there was a few spaces when i got there. But then i remembered :rolleyes: i didnt leave my bike on there i thought i left it in the bay next to the hardstand and some impatient car driver wasnt happy with me takin up a parking spot so pushed my bike up onto the hardstand(you think that'll work)

[tanis34]

worth a try m8 but have they got cctv????????????

[DanAbnormal]

Unless you were parked in a free motorcycle bay or a normal bay with a ticket you are liable for the parking ticket. It sure does suck.

[leatherpatches]

worth a try m8 but have they got cctv????????????

which car park was it?

[jimmy-james]

Where are you meant to put the ticket without some passing chav/motorist steeling it for no good reason?

[DanAbnormal]

Where are you meant to put the ticket without some passing chav/motorist steeling it for no good reason?

They don't give a ****. If you are in a car park you have to display a ticket or park in the free motorcycle area (if it has one).

[DANINPLYMOUTH]

warner village. Its free to park there anyway even for cars which is what makes it worse.
dont think theres any cctv over there area where it happened plus would a company who enforces the parking rules actually have access to it

[FG1]

What is the offence on the ticket, IE, parking outside of a marked bay or parking on the curb etc???

[Dangerous Dave]

If you are in a car park you have to display a ticket or park in the free motorcycle area (if it has one).
+1, you use to be able too (many years ago) get away with parking in a cycle rack as the taxation class of a motorbike is a bicycle, can't anymore though!

[DANINPLYMOUTH]

was classed as parking outside of marked bay

[yorkie_chris]

Well learn for next time, stick you number plate on with industrial velcro and take it with you.

[Ed]

I got a ticket today - thought yellow lines don't work on public holidays. £35 down the drain:(

[DanAbnormal]

was classed as parking outside of marked bay

Sorry to hear this Dan. Bascially mate they have you over a barrel. I tried to fight one of these cases but had to pay in the end. Although if it's a free car park it is a little odd that you got a ticket. Unless it could be classed as illegally park if you were on the pavement. Might be worth appealing provided the car park was a free car park and it did not have a free m/c bay in it. Just a thought.

[arenalife]

Is this a pukka traffic warden council ticket or a 'Civil penalty notice' from a private firm which is basically just a bill they're asking you to pay like you'd get in an asda car park?

[DANINPLYMOUTH]

Its off a private firm. Its just ****ed me off as i was trying to save a space for the cars and were the bike was left it caused no obstruction to anything

[leatherpatches]

The irony is that at least two of the people working for the security firm there ride bikes in and park them on the pavement outside their little hut at the entrance.

[Warthog]

Urgh, in all my years of bike tickets it has been when I have been trying to keep my bike out of the way and taking up less space. If I park horizontally over a car bay I am alway fine! Incidently, the way it works with pay and display, is that you pay and just take the ticket with you. then if you get a PCN you send off the ticket and they cancel your bill.

[gettin2dizzy]

I just see it as ; you've had free parking for ages, now it's ended. I'd just pay up rather waste money in legal battles.

[ooger]

I overheard three women in the supermarket yesterday complaining about the state of affairs when you have to pay 50p to do your weekly shopping (tis true, though thats not the point of this story).

Anyway, one of the wicked old hags (they were, trust me) piped up (in a la-de-da Hyacinth Bucket fashion that made me more angry, and she was wearing jodhpurs):

'well, I won't be paying it, I simply won't!"

Turned out she had a ticket for not realising it was a pay and display. Thick cow.

The she continued

"They can't make me pay it, they can't. I'm a solicitor, I know these things, I simply cannot accept this at all"

I wanted to push her face into the corner of a pointy shelf.

[phil24_7]

Don't think you have to pay as it's private land and the collection company have no right to get the money off you and have no way to enforce it (unless your clamped or towed).

Pretty sure the the Warner Village Security are in charge of the parking, what does the ticket say?


Oh, the CCTV is very good in the car park, been caught a few times scrapping down there cuz of the it and my mates used to be the night time security so I got to see them!

[phil24_7]

The irony is that at least two of the people working for the security firm there ride bikes in and park them on the pavement outside their little hut at the entrance.

Yeah, I know them, but if they ain't handing the tickets out it ain't their fault, though it sucks that they're allowed to get away with it.

Where are you from Leatherpatches??

[leatherpatches]

Yeah, I know them, but if they ain't handing the tickets out it ain't their fault, though it sucks that they're allowed to get away with it.

Where are you from Leatherpatches??

Plymouth, of course! :D

[phil24_7]

Bloody janner!!! :-D

You not been posting on here much? Don't recognise you user name (though I can be a little forgetful at times!)

[leatherpatches]

No, chopped my sv in a little while ago. I'd been using it for commuting and had lost the bike buzz a little bit. Now I'm right back into it again and catching up with some of my old sites. I was a regular on here about 4/5 years ago.

[Paul the 6th]

i got out of a few tickets when I was a student at college - used to park in tescos. One time I was late for coll, no spaces at all so I parked along a side of the carpark where cars could still get past, no double yellows or box junction style markings etc. Came back and found a ticket "Parked in no parking". I took 3 photos from wideangles and wrote a letter including pics explaining that no where in any of the photos did it say "No Parking". Cars could still get past and I was within the 2 hour time limit. Never heard from them since (and that was about 3 years ago).