Anyone had any luck appealing a parking ticket?
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The other day I got a call about a job so went round to measure up. The customer couldn't be there, so he arranged for someone to meet me at the house. I parked outside, went in and measured up, about 10-15 mins later came out to see a pair of traffic wardens getting back on their scooters and a parking ticket on my van. The person that had met me at the house then told me that he should've had me park on the drive as he'd had a ticket from parking on the road, had meant to tell me but had forgotten.
Anyway after biting his face off in frustration, I asked the parking a
holes if there was anything they could do, they went straight into jobsworth mode and told me I could appeal it if I wanted but I should've seen the sign when I turned into the road. I hadn't spotted it.
I don't really have a defence to be honest, I suppose I should've seen the sign. It sucks balls though to be trying to get a job in and get a ticket for 10 minutes parked up somewhere you had no idea was restricted. I could see the parking ahole get aroused when I asked him about the ticket, even though I wasn't shouting he went straight into tt mode and started preaching to me.
Has anyone ever got off something like this? I don't know whether to bother to appeal, or just soak up yet another punch to the bowel and hand over more of my food money to the council to give to scumbags for special brew and heroin.
Anyway after biting his face off in frustration, I asked the parking a
holes if there was anything they could do, they went straight into jobsworth mode and told me I could appeal it if I wanted but I should've seen the sign when I turned into the road. I hadn't spotted it.I don't really have a defence to be honest, I suppose I should've seen the sign. It sucks balls though to be trying to get a job in and get a ticket for 10 minutes parked up somewhere you had no idea was restricted. I could see the parking a
hole get aroused when I asked him about the ticket, even though I wasn't shouting he went straight into tt mode and started preaching to me. Has anyone ever got off something like this? I don't know whether to bother to appeal, or just soak up yet another punch to the bowel and hand over more of my food money to the council to give to scumbags for special brew and heroin.
Can't help too much, but I had something similar recently when I managed to completely miss all indications of a Pay and Display zone. No idea how, as it was sufficiently unusual that I double checked. Was also surprised as there was no parking ticket on the car - just popped through the post a few weeks later.
I made a judgement call, and decided that I was bang to rights, however i'd missed it, so paid up like a good boy.
I made a judgement call, and decided that I was bang to rights, however i'd missed it, so paid up like a good boy.
Dispute every single one, legitimate or otherwise. You'll often win by default when they fail to respond within the timeframe to which they are bound. If you put a dispute in, they freeze the "you have two weeks to pay before it doubles" clause, so you literally have nothing to lose.
I won a dispute several years ago. The council painted new yellows but there ha obviously been a few cars parked on the road at the time do these were broken yellows. I parke in a bit with no lines and got a ticket.
I took pictures and sent them with a snotty letter and hey presto no need to pay.
I took pictures and sent them with a snotty letter and hey presto no need to pay.
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