Can i get out of a parking ticket because...

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

[Stu]

Listen to Spidey - He knows OK

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]

Originally Posted by Stu

Listen to Spidey - He knows OK

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.

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

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. :/

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...

i so hate some parts of life...

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

Originally Posted by Warthog

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