Parking Fine Winner - For A Change
Parking Fine Winner - For A Change
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bad company

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21,919 posts

295 months

Sunday 18th April 2021
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pherlopolus

2,189 posts

187 months

Sunday 18th April 2021
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I don’t class that as winning! If he had appealed the first one properly instead of ignoring it it would be a none story. The reason he was let off wasn’t even the reason he was parking there!

bad company

Original Poster:

21,919 posts

295 months

Sunday 18th April 2021
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pherlopolus said:
I don’t class that as winning! If he had appealed the first one properly instead of ignoring it it would be a none story. The reason he was let off wasn’t even the reason he was parking there!
Wow, you sound incredibly clever.

Spleen

5,453 posts

150 months

Sunday 18th April 2021
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bad company said:
pherlopolus said:
I don’t class that as winning! If he had appealed the first one properly instead of ignoring it it would be a none story. The reason he was let off wasn’t even the reason he was parking there!
Wow, you sound incredibly clever.
Lol, doesn't he just. Fair play to Mr Sell, not sure I would have had the patience to put up with that nonsense for two years.

PorkInsider

6,585 posts

170 months

Sunday 18th April 2021
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I'm not sure about this one.

Reading all the details, he parked where he did because 'it's near his shop'. He didn't know that there was a problem with the TRO and hence the lines.

He only found out the lines were incorrect after years of parking on double yellows and countless ignored tickets. By which time he'd hidden assets to stop bailiffs enforcing the collection of the penalties.

Or maybe I'm being too cynical?

pherlopolus

2,189 posts

187 months

Sunday 18th April 2021
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bad company said:
Wow, you sound incredibly clever.
No, I just read the article without the “I won” spin

I think he was very lucky the TRO was incorrect...

surveyor

18,690 posts

213 months

Sunday 18th April 2021
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pherlopolus said:
bad company said:
Wow, you sound incredibly clever.
No, I just read the article without the “I won” spin

I think he was very lucky the TRO was incorrect...
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Hol

9,316 posts

229 months

Monday 19th April 2021
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surveyor said:
pherlopolus said:
bad company said:
Wow, you sound incredibly clever.
No, I just read the article without the “I won” spin

I think he was very lucky the TRO was incorrect...
agreed
I have to concur.



Pegscratch

1,872 posts

137 months

Monday 19th April 2021
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Hol said:
I have to concur.
Indeed.

Proof of why people play stupid games, every once in a while the prize isn’t stupid.

Type R Tom

4,309 posts

178 months

Monday 19th April 2021
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There are also a lot of strange inconsistencies with the story, for example, refusing to share the TMO, it's a 2 minute job to send in an FOI.

I've also never heard of TMO's need to be checked every 18 months, I've seen plenty that are over 50 years old and never get locked out if the road hasn't changed.

To me it sounds like he got off on a technicality that he had no possible knowledge of, got lucky!

Plus moving to hide from bailiffs, I call bks on that, how would that even work!?!

PorkInsider

6,585 posts

170 months

Monday 19th April 2021
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Type R Tom said:
Plus moving to hide from bailiffs, I call bks on that, how would that even work!?!
I think (could be wrong) that he moved out of his own place to his parents' so that he could try to claim to have no possessions of his own?

It would have been a lot less hassle and stress to not have racked up hundreds of tickets by not parking on the yellows every day.

sospan

2,755 posts

251 months

Monday 19th April 2021
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The council will cease enforcement at that location?
Will they remove the extra 4m of yellow lines? Will they amend and reissue the TRO?
Will they tighten up on procedures that should check the quality of work done?
Will anyone get a b********g for the error?
Did anyone get off their a**e behind a desk to look at the long standing dispute properly?
If it got to the stage of bailiffs then did a court case go through with less than full evidence or proof of correct TRO spec?
The butcher certainly pushed his luck with so many potential checks being missed!

PorkInsider

6,585 posts

170 months

Monday 19th April 2021
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sospan said:
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Did anyone get off their a**e behind a desk to look at the long standing dispute properly?
If it got to the stage of bailiffs then did a court case go through with less than full evidence or proof of correct TRO spec?
The butcher certainly pushed his luck with so many potential checks being missed!
The walloper didn't dispute the TRO until he was knee deep in tickets - he knew nothing about it. He had just 'assumed' the tickets were invalid 'because private road'.

He got off on a technicality regarding the TRO, once he found out that might be a lifeline. If he'd carried on as he was, arguing the toss about 'private road' he would have lost. He was just lucky.


Edited by PorkInsider on Monday 19th April 16:59

NickCQ

5,392 posts

125 months

Monday 19th April 2021
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Looking at Corner Farm Close on Google Maps it's right next to Tadworth railway station so presumably there's an issue with commuter parking in non-COVID times. I am slightly surprised that the residents / owners of the private road haven't got Parking Eye or someone enforcing parking on their street. Two years of unpaid private "charges" could be a lot more than £20k!

ChocolateFrog

34,954 posts

202 months

Monday 19th April 2021
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He's lucky.

There's no way he knew there should be a 4m gap before the double yellows started.

It's implied he's separated from his children's mother, I can't think why.

SmoothCriminal

5,938 posts

228 months

Monday 19th April 2021
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Next time someone posts about inconsiderate parking or being blocked in by someone everyone on here will be patting the offender on the back if they're congratulating the guy on this so called win.

He parked at the end of the double yellow lines because there was no other space available close to his butchers shop.

He's just an entitled that thinks he can park where he wants because it's close to his shop

Countdown

49,357 posts

225 months

Tuesday 20th April 2021
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bad company said:
Well done for parking like a dick?

Richard-390a0

3,482 posts

120 months

Tuesday 20th April 2021
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Is that an example of his general standard of parking behind him!?. As others have said he's a very lucky inconsiderate gearknobber!