Are parking attendants lobotomised at birth?!
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Are parking attendants lobotomised at birth?!
I cannot believe it. Just been out with my mum (who is disabled). We finally find a disabled parking space in a council run car park that does not charge for disabled drivers.
So we park up, display the badge and display the wheel thing with an accurately set time allowing us 3 hours. One hour into our stay a jobsworth plants a £60 fine on the windscreen claiming that they could not read the disabled badges. They were right in the centre of the dash, the correct way up, and totally unobscured.
Of course the parking office that was open could only take payments, not complaints. So now we have to go through some lengthy appeals process just because some retard fancied increasing their tally for the day.
We've taken a couple of pictures of the car and badges, but its still going to be our word against theirs. They will no doubt claim that we went into the car and turned the things around or something.
Bunch of effing useless morons. Totally amazes me how they can read the small print of a tax disc, but not the really huge bold print of a disabled badge.
So we park up, display the badge and display the wheel thing with an accurately set time allowing us 3 hours. One hour into our stay a jobsworth plants a £60 fine on the windscreen claiming that they could not read the disabled badges. They were right in the centre of the dash, the correct way up, and totally unobscured.
Of course the parking office that was open could only take payments, not complaints. So now we have to go through some lengthy appeals process just because some retard fancied increasing their tally for the day.
We've taken a couple of pictures of the car and badges, but its still going to be our word against theirs. They will no doubt claim that we went into the car and turned the things around or something.
Bunch of effing useless morons. Totally amazes me how they can read the small print of a tax disc, but not the really huge bold print of a disabled badge.
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Feel for you - Local councils are all the same staffed by complete jobsworth idiots who simply can not get a job elsewhere and get hung on the power they think they have.
See my post the probs I'm having with my ex local authority at the moment !
https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...-question.html
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See my post the probs I'm having with my ex local authority at the moment !
https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...-question.html
Richard
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We'll defend this one in court if we have to. I hold no hope that the appeals process will be of any use to us at all. They council are hardly going to say that they got it wrong.
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Utterly appalling, Lumy. Our Council is having to pay back thousands to motorists because of fining for the sake of it. Good luck
I bet he was a very small, rotund person, with a face like a smacked bum. They all look like that who work for our Council
I bet he was a very small, rotund person, with a face like a smacked bum. They all look like that who work for our Council
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Luminous, I think a quick call to the local paper might be in order. I am sure they would love to run a story about the local council persecuting disabled drivers. Methinks the council may just wave it if they are given the opportunity to put their side of the story prior to publication
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I've had a fiddle just got the photo off our phone. If you can make out the time displayed from a mobile phone image taken in the rain, you can certainly make out the time if you are a warden looking through the screen:
[img=http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/3779/photo0003ze0.th.jpg]
[img=http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/3779/photo0003ze0.th.jpg]
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Still a jobsworth, if you appeal im sure they will cancel it, dont show the photos though...
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Still a jobsworth, if you appeal im sure they will cancel it, dont show the photos though...
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If the person is with car they can ask them to flip or show the permit surely ?
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RULES!!!
thats what i had quoted to me by parking warden as i tried to run him over after he put a ticket on my van 1 minute after it expired!
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I can see it's a 24hr clock and hence the 23 and 24 in little symbols means the time you indicted was 11.30 PM
Probably why the jobsworth **** gave you a ticked. Did you not mean 11.30 am and therefore the number above would be 11 and 12 respectively ??
Probably why the jobsworth **** gave you a ticked. Did you not mean 11.30 am and therefore the number above would be 11 and 12 respectively ??
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At any road, the attendant did not complain of an overstay, the offence noted that was that the time was unreadable.
Maybe we should just do what other disabled drivers do, park on double yellow lines wherever the hell you like. The coppers around here have a no disabled driver gets a parking ticket policy. Would be easier for us, but we try to follow the rules and get this as a reward.
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There's the issue of displaying the photo side which doesn't tell the parking attendant whether or not the badge is valid as there is no date on that side.
The clock can only show 11(23).
The clock can only show 11(23).
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I've had a fiddle just got the photo off our phone. If you can make out the time displayed from a mobile phone image taken in the rain, you can certainly make out the time if you are a warden looking through the screen:
[img=http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/3779/photo0003ze0.th.jpg]
[img=http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/3779/photo0003ze0.th.jpg]
And thats your eveidence to get you out of the fine ???? if I were you I would just pay the £20 now. It may **** you off but it will be a lot cheaper in the long run
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Nah, its not £20, its £60. As for paying up, its a point of principal. We did not commit the offense that was stated on the ticket. Why should we pay up?
Most probably the very reason that the fine was issued in the first place was because most people just don't bother fighting it. Which in turn means they are more likely to do that in the future. We have to stand and fight, otherwise each and every time we park there in the future we will be back in the same boat.
Their policy clearly states that disabled parking is free. My mum was disabled and attending a medical appointment nearby. We are not going to pay
Most probably the very reason that the fine was issued in the first place was because most people just don't bother fighting it. Which in turn means they are more likely to do that in the future. We have to stand and fight, otherwise each and every time we park there in the future we will be back in the same boat.
Their policy clearly states that disabled parking is free. My mum was disabled and attending a medical appointment nearby. We are not going to pay
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So don't worry about using a digital camera to take pics of an accident etc, just don't be tempted to manipulate them, no matter how good you think you are with Photoshop.
Coming back to the original post, hope you get it sorted.
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