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

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

Originally Posted by PsychoCannon

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.

Originally Posted by BigApe

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

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

Originally Posted by BigApe

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.

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 talk about a dodgy attendant

Maria

Originally Posted by Miss Alpinestarhero

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

[Spiderman]

Originally Posted by 454697819

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.

Originally Posted by Spiderman

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)

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.

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