Kriss
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| posted on 12/10/10 at 12:29 PM |
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parking ticket
Got a ticket outside my girlfriends yesterday.
We had bought a scrtach card month day type fromt he council (wandsworth) that you display in the window for £5
However I did not fill in the reg number. My own fault. So I got a £60 ticket.
However, the enforcer did not stick the ticket to my car, or even place it under the wiper. All of the envelope adhesive tabs and peel back areas are
still in tact and the section where the enforcer should write their details on the envelope have also not been completed. Further more the envelope
was not sealed. There are instuctions ont he evvelope for the officer to fill in the notice number ont he envelope adhesive which they have not. The
evnelope has also not be made "water tight" as they did not even seal it off. As i say, the whole thing is untouched.
I think I have a fair bit of wriggle room here seeing as I could have easily never seen the ticket if it had blown off due to it not being fixed in
anyway and their phot will prove this.
What do you chaps think? Couple of technicalities? I need to find the warden handbook and see if they have to stick it on and fill out the rear
section. He/she has not filled in their "notice number" on the envelope, so why should I not fill in my reg number?
Its an obvious mistake, i still scratched out the card which we paid £5 for.
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marcjagman
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| posted on 12/10/10 at 12:33 PM |
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Take the ticket and permit to your local office and argue your point, when you win put a claim in for time/earnings etc, see how they like it.
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dan8400
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| posted on 12/10/10 at 12:35 PM |
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Was it PARKING PATAWEYO? 
linky
Sorry...... couldnt resist.
Seriously though. You should get away with it
Dan
[Edited on 12/10/10 by dan8400]
Hey - That's Journey!!!
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monkeyarms
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| posted on 12/10/10 at 12:37 PM |
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If it's from a private parking company the usual advice is "ignore it"
If it's from council then best advice is post your story here...
peppipoo parking forums
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loggyboy
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| posted on 12/10/10 at 12:46 PM |
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Fill your plate in (maybe in faintly, but clear enough if you look propoperly), take it in and argue the lazy officer didnt not only fill his forms in
properely etc, but didnt bother to look at the permit properly either.
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Agriv8
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| posted on 12/10/10 at 12:49 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by loggyboy
Fill your plate in (maybe in faintly, but clear enough if you look propoperly), take it in and argue the lazy officer didnt not only fill his forms in
properely etc, but didnt bother to look at the permit properly either.
quite a lot of the parking atendents in Bradford now carry digital cameras and take photos of tickets tax disks reg plates ect ect when issuing a
ticket .
regards
Agriv8
Taller than your average Guy !
Management is like a tree of monkeys. - Those at the top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. BUT Those at the bottom look up and see a
tree full of a*seholes .............
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mads
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| posted on 12/10/10 at 12:54 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Agriv8
quote:
Originally posted by loggyboy
Fill your plate in (maybe in faintly, but clear enough if you look propoperly), take it in and argue the lazy officer didnt not only fill his forms in
properely etc, but didnt bother to look at the permit properly either.
quite a lot of the parking atendents in Bradford now carry digital cameras and take photos of tickets tax disks reg plates ect ect when issuing a
ticket .
regards
Agriv8
yeah but he did have a half-ass job on the ticket itself, i wouldnt hold my breath in him/her having taken photos too!
We gain knowledge faster than we do wisdom!
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sideways, thoroughly used, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming... "f*ck, what a trip!"
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blakep82
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| posted on 12/10/10 at 01:01 PM |
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you SHOULD be able to get it cancelled, but you know they will just keep saying you have to pay... 
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balidey
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| posted on 12/10/10 at 01:04 PM |
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as above, write in feint pencil. Not very easy to take a photo of. Then take ticket and card to council office (assuming its a council parking ticket)
and argue the toss as loud (but as polite) as you can in the office. They don't like that
Dutch bears have terrible skin due to their clogged paws
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adithorp
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| posted on 12/10/10 at 01:17 PM |
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If he's got a photo of a parkink ticket with no reg number on it they can't prove it's on your car. They'll have a photo of
you car parked where they say and it's tax disc but neither will show the ticket so as the number can be read (uless it was right next to the
tax disc).
"A witty saying proves nothing" Voltaire
http://jpsc.org.uk/forum/
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jossey
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| posted on 12/10/10 at 01:44 PM |
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ye goto council and ask for help with it.
if they dont listen write to them and explain teh situation and explain that you are struggling to read due to dislexia and see their response.
complete the letter stating that you are someone writing it on your behalf and then you sign it.
it will work.
they wont argue the point you didnt complete the form properly.
dav e
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thunderace
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| posted on 12/10/10 at 07:27 PM |
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i would say you were in the house looking for a pen  and got the ticket .
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 12/10/10 at 08:33 PM |
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Hmmm thorny one, I guess you could ignore it and when they come back say "What ticket? There was a plastic envolope under my wiper..."
Similarly the ticket I got was handed to me personally as I was just returning to my car as he was filling it out, and I was debating saying I never
got it as it would be so easy to see the warden filling one out and walk over going "Bugger, how much is it?"
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Kriss
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| posted on 13/10/10 at 09:37 AM |
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thanks for all your comments.
I rung up the council who were very helpful - i was surprised.
I advised on what had happened, it was an honest mistake, but also relayed the mistakes the attendant had made also. apparently his notes say i did
not display my reg on the 1 hour permit, however this is also incorrect as it was a 1 day permit.
the guy ont he phone agreed and is confident that with a decent letter is will get cancelled
will update
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 13/10/10 at 09:48 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Kriss
his notes say i did not display my reg on the 1 hour permit, however this is also incorrect as it was a 1 day permit.
A small detail such as that usually gets you off, there have been a number of tickets thrown out because the double yellow line they were parked on
weren't regulation size..
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