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454697819
21-03-07, 12:54 PM
the atendant got the colour of the vehicle wrong?
reg plate is ok... :confused:
I didnt deliberalty park where i shoudlnt just one of those ****ty life blows!
how wrong is the colour? if its totaly differant you could deny it was your car?
Flamin_Squirrel
21-03-07, 01:29 PM
I'd imagine so, but only if they've not taken a photo.
454697819
21-03-07, 01:51 PM
my car is midnight blue... / purple
hes listed it as black..
gettin2dizzy
21-03-07, 01:53 PM
yeah you can. Just write to them saying your car isn't that colour at all, and you'll probably not hear back from them :)
the_lone_wolf
21-03-07, 02:02 PM
http://www.parkingticket.co.uk/em.html
at the bottom, looks like you'll need a court to decide for you, if it was nightime i doubt you'd have any chance...
454697819
21-03-07, 02:16 PM
excellent, thank you for that...
i will appeal..
the car is obviously a blue colour and in the sunlight which it was it flips purple.....
ill rright and see what they say.
I once went to a leisure center to go swimming. I was completly oblivious to the fact that it was a pay and display. Got back to the car to find a £50 parking ticket on the windscreen. Was gutted. Then I noticed that the registration began with a W on the ticket, mine is a V.
I laughed all the way home. :D :D
Flamin_Squirrel
21-03-07, 02:41 PM
excellent, thank you for that...
i will appeal..
the car is obviously a blue colour and in the sunlight which it was it flips purple.....
ill rright and see what they say.
What does your V5 say? I'd ask to see the photo first. If they say 'what photo?' then I'd appeal. You're gonna be bang to rights if they have a piccy though, I'd imagine.
454697819
21-03-07, 02:54 PM
and if thats the case ill pay it...
i am probably bang to rights but if they cant be bothered to get the ticket right why should I be bothered to pay?
the car is obviously not black...
iv written a letter but ill wait and see what happens... it will but off me forking out the 30£ by a few days any way...
just got the v5 through.. its states BLUE...
so atm im temporoarliy :)
PsychoCannon
21-03-07, 03:18 PM
Certainly worth a try!
If you're lucky they'll just drop it :)
Only "Ticket" I ever got (and got away with) wasn't a ticket at all :)
Parked up in Iceland's carpark while I ran into a shop round the corner and came back to see a ticket on the bike!
Was gutted as I never actually thought staff checked up on if you were a customer or not (and I wasn't gone more than 10 minutes).
Imagine my surprise when I pulled out not a ticket but a very polite note saying that this was an Iceland car park and that I'd have to buy something from the store before leaving.
A can of coke and a couple of skittles latter I rode home feeling quite amused, thank you Iceland for scaring the crap out of me then making my day =p
Certainly worth a try!
If you're lucky they'll just drop it :)
Only "Ticket" I ever got (and got away with) wasn't a ticket at all :)
Parked up in Iceland's carpark while I ran into a shop round the corner and came back to see a ticket on the bike!
Was gutted as I never actually thought staff checked up on if you were a customer or not (and I wasn't gone more than 10 minutes).
Imagine my surprise when I pulled out not a ticket but a very polite note saying that this was an Iceland car park and that I'd have to buy something from the store before leaving.
A can of coke and a couple of skittles latter I rode home feeling quite amused, thank you Iceland for scaring the crap out of me then making my day =p
Eh? What if you went into the store but decided that you actually didn't want to buy anything after all. Demanding that you buy something is not something they can make you do.
I actually had a letter from Tesco's telling me that they were warning me for staying over the 3 hour free parking limit and would be sending me a fine the next time they caught me.
WTF would I be doing parked in Tesco's for over three hours. The muppets. It's not as if there is anywhere else to go whilst parked there. Idiots. Phoned them and demanded that my records be deleted from the system. Recieved an appology letter a few days later.
I actually had a letter from Tesco's telling me that they were warning me for staying over the 3 hour free parking limit and would be sending me a fine the next time they caught me.
WTF would I be doing parked in Tesco's for over three hours. The muppets. It's not as if there is anywhere else to go whilst parked there. Idiots. Phoned them and demanded that my records be deleted from the system. Recieved an appology letter a few days later.
you should have told them you just spent over £500 on a big party you are holding, next time i'll go to asda:p
Fizzy Fish
21-03-07, 04:13 PM
We contested a parking ticket on our car on the grounds that
a) they had the wrong colour (purple instead of green - OK so it was street lighting but that's quite a difference!) and
b) the warden didn't have the tax disc details (unsuprising given that they illegally issued us with a ticket without placing it on the car, and were therefore never close enough to get the info!)
We were let off on appeal, but only because of their failure to record the tax disc details. It was made clear that had it just been the colour then they wouldn't have accepted our appeal. Now that was the London parking adjudicator rather than the national one, but based on our experience I'm not so sure you'll be successful on this one i'm afraid
PsychoCannon
21-03-07, 05:11 PM
Eh? What if you went into the store but decided that you actually didn't want to buy anything after all. Demanding that you buy something is not something they can make you do.
They have signs up saying this carpark is for customers only and non customers will be clamped.
Never actually thought it would be enforced and I considered a polite note (albeit it in a yellow parking fine envelope thing on my windscreen) got the point across =p
I was about to laugh it off and ride off but I figured they got me fair so I'd go in and buy something, smiled all the way to the checkout at the cheek of it but was glad they didn't clamp me.
It's the Iceland in Harrow town center with a fairly small (15?) car carpark but the thing is almost always empty so I use it to stop when I'm running a very quick errand into town and the bike bays are full or covered in chavs.
Miss Alpinestarhero
21-03-07, 05:15 PM
I dont think you would if the registration number is right. Me and matt (alpinestarhero) sometimes disagree on what colour X object is (although not often :) )
my mum got a ticket a few years ago and they had written down the wrong car colour (said it was green, but her car is grey), they wrote down the wrong street (the car was in a completly different location) and the wrong time! but the registration number was correct :smt108 talk about a dodgy attendant
Maria
I dont think you would if the registration number is right. Me and matt (alpinestarhero) sometimes disagree on what colour X object is (although not often because he caves due to being under the thumb :) )
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Maria
:shock:
Spiderman
21-03-07, 08:16 PM
excellent, thank you for that...
i will appeal..
the car is obviously a blue colour and in the sunlight which it was it flips purple.....
ill rright and see what they say.
Mate ive been to far too many appeals and won most of the ones i went to. I can tell you for ceratin they view this as not being a material variabe that would invalidate the ticket. Their attitude is that the attendant can only do what is "reasonable" and any reasonable person could mistake a dark coulour for another.
They will then go on to tell you that all the other material information regarding your car, the ticket and your ownsership of both are valid so even if the attendant had written white instead of black all those other factors would over-ride the colour mistake.
I'm only telling you this as once you go to appeal, if you loose you pay the full rate not the discounted rate. And it becomes due immedeatly not in 14 or 28 days.
Be aware.
I went to appeal once as the warden had not placed the ticket on my car and when i drove round the block and found him printing the ticket and asked for it so i could appeal, he gave it to me.
The adjuicator at appeal told me i was a silly boy for taking it but having done so meant the ticket was valid and issued correctly.
Even the fact that the boy offered to tear it up for me as i was "a muslim brother" (which i'm not and have no idea where he got the idea from as i dont wear a beard or anything) the adjudicator said that i need to take that up with his employer.
The point of law covering the ticket and its issuing were correct and the ticket stood.
the white rabbit
21-03-07, 08:42 PM
Even the fact that the boy offered to tear it up for me as i was "a muslim brother" (which i'm not and have no idea where he got the idea from as i dont wear a beard or anything)
:smt046
I was once given a ticket as my pay and display ticket had dropped off the screen. In those days you could roll up to the cop shop and ask the chief parky to let you off. This was in Stirling. I showed him the ticket and he said 'ok, no worries as you are a visitor and everything'. I had in fact lived there for a year. Wahahahahaha!
I was also offered tasting of malts in a bar once one street from where I lived on account of 'being a visitor to our village an' all, we dont get many visiotrs here', but thats another story.
454697819
21-03-07, 08:57 PM
Im not going to get to the state of going to appeal..
its a fair point and im probably justtrying my luck, the worst it will cost me is £30 + 33 pence to send the letter..
my point is slighly valid though.. suley all the evidnce should be correct, in this case the evidence or the ticket should be right.. its not.. its wrong...
any way...
if they tell me i have to pay it i will, it was just a shot accorss the bow..
what winds me up more is the fact that he said oh if ud been 10 seconds earlier i woudl have just asked you to move it,,,
****
any way like i said one of lifes little **** on u when ur down sittuations.. tis all
:)
the best way IMO would be to ignore it........... then when you get a letter asking why you have not paid, say you have not recived a ticket, then tell them it must be a mix up as your car is purple not black (or whatever)
could all backfire though? if you admit getting the ticket now but argue about the colour i dont think you will get let off, but this is just my opinion , if it was me i would probaly pay the £30
Listen to Spidey - He knows OK
socommk23
22-03-07, 12:53 AM
i got a ticket on the bike! parked in a car space after 6 in bournemouth. whole car park was empty.
went for a meal then back to the bike. ticket for not paying and displaying! appealed as where am i to display without the ticket getting stolen! they didnt give a hoot! the person that gave the ticket was watching as i walked away!
oh well! argued and then payed 30!
Don't appeal as such, just keep writing to them asking for explanations for this, that and the other. They will soon get bored and drop the issue. I have tried this a couple of times, as have friends and the ticket has always been forgotten.
Spiderman
22-03-07, 04:03 PM
Listen to Spidey - He knows OK
:oops:
Aw shuks, thanks.
454697819 - Absolutely nothing worng with sending letters back and forth to the issuer and drag it out as long as you can. Even with the ones i have to pay i like to do this.
Fuk em, its daylight robbery imho and if i can make their lives more complex by writing letters back and forth then why the hell not.
However, when they threaten to take it to appeal stage i just send the bloody cheque.
The morons here in Westminster now have cameras to help them do their jobs right and i had one of em on a moped chase me (yeh good luck) to try and get a picture of me as he claimed i was being abusive to him.
Now this fool hit my front wheel as i was comming out of a bike bay cos he was too busy looking at parked cars as he rode. So i shouted at him that he should "apy attention to the road, the stoopid fukin idiot" and i think that's totaly acceptable taking into account what he'd just done.
So when we got to the lights and he told me to "pull over to the kurb so i can take your picture" i politely reminded him that i would happily smash his face if he continued to harass me in this manner.
Funnny, he turned off at the next side road. :shock:
:lol:
Errm if any of you hadnt guessed i hate traffic wardens and cant fathom for the life of me why anyone who doesnt have an inferiority complex would do that job. i'd rather sweep streets or work in McD's if i needed money!!!
Mild mannered Zig :shock:
Warthog
22-03-07, 05:44 PM
I tried the old "where do I stick the play and display ticket?" appeal, but it didn't work with birmingham city council, they just said "buy a ticket and take it with you, then send it to us if you get a PCN". Fair point I suppose, but I still think bikes should be able to park free as they take up much less space. But they also told me there was a free motorbike parking space down the road. Also fair point. So I paid. :/ :lol:
454697819
22-03-07, 10:37 PM
the added irony is that tonight whilst at the job interview i got clamped with a release fee of £95...
i hate leeds
oh and the interview was crap... :twisted:
i so hate some parts of life...
Reckless Rat
23-03-07, 03:23 PM
Couple of years back I got a letter from Wandsworth saying my Blue Saab REG XXX XXX was illegally parked in some road or other etc etc ...please pay up.
I wrote back saying I'd never been to Wandsworth, and my car with that reg is a red TR7, and was sitting outside my house in Sussex all night.
They replied: Pay up or appeal in court etc etc
I suggested they check the reg with DVLA... its a red TR7 not a blue Saab.
They replied: Pay up or appeal in court etc etc
I then sent them a photo-copy of my Reg details and a reasonable, itemised request for expenses.
Now they admitted defeat. Ticket canceled. No apology. No Expenses....
Seems like they can get your address from DVLA but can't be arsed to go back check their own details add up.
So much for innocent till proven guilty.
RR
PsychoCannon
23-03-07, 03:50 PM
I tried the old "where do I stick the play and display ticket?" appeal, but it didn't work with birmingham city council, they just said "buy a ticket and take it with you, then send it to us if you get a PCN".
Luton Town Center has removed all the free bike bays that I knew about so I now have to park in pay and display (or in a bicycle bay which I'm probably not allowed in).
I take the tickets with me and I've never had trouble but I always intended that if I did get a ticket I'd just take a photo of the pay-display ticket on my bike (putting it there) and sending a copy of it in with a letter asking for it to be dropped thankyou very much =p
DanAbnormal
23-03-07, 04:41 PM
For me the answer was NO. They listed my green Ninja as being a red Mitsubishi and I still had to pay the fine. But then it was still my fault for parking on single yellow so I paid it.
Fizzy Fish
23-03-07, 04:47 PM
For me the answer was NO. They listed my green Ninja as being a red Mitsubishi and I still had to pay the fine. But then it was still my fault for parking on single yellow so I paid it.
A Mitsubishi bike??? :shock:
DanAbnormal
23-03-07, 06:55 PM
A Mitsubishi bike??? :shock:
Exactly! But as they got the plate number right I had to cough up.
But what if your plate had been cloned ?
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