Originally Posted by NotoriousREV (Post 7956535)

Clearly by displaying your badge at a 90 degree angle you would have forced the parking attendant to move his neck, something which council h&s will not allow. Additionally, using his eyes to try and decipher the text at a funny angle could have led to a slight headache which would have resulted in time off for the council employee and a burden to the council tax payers of Darlington.

You, sir, are worse than Hitler.

Originally Posted by Daryl (Post 7956714)

Just write to the council explaining that you were correctly displaying the badge etc and ask that they cancel the ticket. Tell them that if they fail to do so you will appeal to the Parking Adjudicator, who will expect to see evidence that the badge was not correctly displayed (ie a photo taken by the attendant).

They will almost certainly cancel the ticket and if not the Adjudicator will on appeal.

Incidentally, it is almost certain that the Penalty Charge Notice is incorrectly worded, so is invalid anyway!

Try Pepipoo if you want more advice. :)

Originally Posted by Fuzz (Post 7956134)

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 cnut gave you a ticked. Did you not mean 11.30 am and therefore the number above would be 11 and 12 respectively ??

Originally Posted by Fuzz (Post 7983317)

23:00 11:00 p.m.
24:00 12 midnight-(end of day)

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:)

Originally Posted by stevebt (Post 7956390)

I never knew that as I keep buying disposable camera's :)

Originally Posted by ScoobyDriverWannabe (Post 7986571)

Me & me dad went into town last week too get our hair cut. He drove down, there was one disabled bay left but a X5 was parked in the bay next too it taking up half the room so a car wouldnt fit into it. So me dad ended up having too park down the other end of the car park.

Anyway we went & got our hair cut, mine was done first so i said id go get the car and pick him up from the hair dressers save him walking.

Me dad only came out of hospital a couple of weeks ago after having some vertibre removed from his neck and some work on his nerves.

Anyway when i got back too the car there was a traffic warden stood waiting. It was a case of if i drove away in the car hed report me for using a disabled badge that didnt belong too me. I explained the situation but he wasnt interested.

So i had too leave the car walk back down and get me dad too walk upto it.

Originally Posted by Luminous (Post 7955381)

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.