Tailgating out of an NCP

[DiseasalDriver]

Why is it so easy? A friend of mine always told me he never paid for parking when he went to work and I never believed him.

I got a lift home with him yesterday and he really doesn't!!

How have the NCP not got more measures in place to protect against this? How has he not been sent tickets in the post? If it's as easy as it was i.e. the barrier just goes back up if there's a car underneath it then it must be really common?

£15 saving a day. I was gobsmacked.

[StottyZr]

Would be hilarious if they are actually charging him £15 a day and totting it up until he receives an invoice in the post

[ArsE92]

Your mate likes eating pies and using keys.

HTH

[DiseasalDriver]

ArsE92 said:

Your mate likes eating pies and using keys.

HTH

I see what you did there.

It'll be a bill of about £1,800 seeing as it's been going on for circa 6 months.

[ikonic]

I work as an auditor and as far as I'm aware, a lot of car-parks now have (or are installing) ANPR cameras for this reason.

However, a number of car parks I've come across don't do anything with the ANPR units as they simply don't have the manpower to sift through all the vehicles leaving the car park.

[DiseasalDriver]

I imagine if nobody sees him then he'll get away with it until they do? They can't have people monitoring exits of all NCP car parks and I doubt they'd know if 2 cars went out instead of one.

Surely theft though or something that could be done from a legal perspective?

[balls-out]

Is he generally a thief and dishonest?

[redgriff500]

When I was a student I worked on the car parks at the NEC in the holidays.

We were instructed that if someone refused to pay to just let them out but state that we'd taken their no.

However not to actually bother writing it down as no action was ever taken.

[LittleSwill]

Shoplifter

[DiseasalDriver]

balls-out said:

Is he generally a thief and dishonest?

Not that I've ever seen before, normally one of the first to offer to get the drinks in too!

[philmots]

I could see how he's probabl done it once (maybe by accident) and then tried it again, and now it's just got out of hand..

If I were you i'd be having a quiet word in his ear telling him to quit whilst ahead. It WILL catch up with him.

[iva cosworth]

Would it be a shame if barrier damages the roof of his car ?

Could end in the "poetic justice " thread currently on the go

[TorqueTalk]

Its plain theft... What a cock...

[Mr GrimNasty]

I can't remember the circumstances exactly, but it was an NCP, parked during pay period, left during free/unmanned period. Got bill in post.

[DiseasalDriver]

Mr GrimNasty said:

I can't remember the circumstances exactly, but it was an NCP, parked during pay period, left during free/unmanned period. Got bill in post.

Yeah but they will have been specifically looking out for it and I imagine in that circumstance they'd have very little chance of enforcing their demand.

I'll have a word.

[Jon999]

I did this out of a multi storey in stoke the other week. I'd already paid just wanted to see what happens. Was easy to be honest suprised more don't do it. Can clearly tell that the sensors have noticed the car and the barrier isn't going down. Much easier in a car with a low but long bonnet you can put under the barrier as a sort of test before pulling out completely.

[okie592]

doesnt matter, its a NCP car park, if they send a ticket you dont have to pay it anyway since they cant proove it

[redgriff500]

Jon999 said:

I did this out of a multi storey in stoke the other week. I'd already paid just wanted to see what happens. Was easy to be honest suprised more don't do it. Can clearly tell that the sensors have noticed the car and the barrier isn't going down.

I tried it in a hotel car park as I couldn't be bothered to go back and get a token from reception.

The barrier came down on the bonnet (It was a 1937 buick so it's bonnet is the height of small car's roof)

Luckily no damage - probably because it was built like a tank

[onyx39]

Needs to be done with care


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvmEZw9iVHc&fea...

[TheTurbonator]

onyx39 said:

Needs to be done with care


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvmEZw9iVHc&fea...

Brilliant.