parking tickets & Fines - allowable expense?

[Pondlife]

Talking of which, some absolute insanely anal BASTARD got me in Camden yesterday for going 2 minutes over the paid for hour (ironically being 2 minutes late because some tosser parking attendant had crashed his moped and caused the pavement to be blocked for ages).

It's only fair

[css_jay99]

Talking of which, some absolute insanely anal BASTARD got me in Camden yesterday for going 2 minutes over the paid for hour (ironically being 2 minutes late because some tosser parking attendant had crashed his moped and caused the pavement to be blocked for ages).

What do you expect from a borough that gives its attendants cars for a job well done !

I got ticketed same road twice last month because I had two wheels on the curb.
I now put the yellow ticket cover with a cardbord on my dashboard with the word F###ING BA###RDS written on it

they are scum !

[ClarissaG]

Why not try parking legally before grumbling about getting a ticket?

[Mordac]

Why not try parking legally before grumbling about getting a ticket?

In Camden you can be perfectly legally parked and get a ticket. It's happened to me several times. They also make the parking signs so fiendishly difficult to understand that they get all the tourists and foreigners. The parking wardens definitely can't understand them (or indeed basic English) so the innocent motorist gets fecked over. It's almost certainly the reason Liebour lost Camden.

[TheMonkey]

Why not try parking legally before grumbling about getting a ticket?

According to my watch, I had 2 minutes to go. My watch is the same time the BBC have.

[MrsGoof]

According to my watch, I had 2 minutes to go. My watch is the same time the BBC have.

they run on LCT not BBC time

LCT = Local Camden Time

[swamp]

Talking of which, some absolute insanely anal BASTARD got me in Camden yesterday for going 2 minutes over the paid for hour (ironically being 2 minutes late because some tosser parking attendant had crashed his moped and caused the pavement to be blocked for ages).

Count yourself lucky your car wasn't clamped and/or removed.

[SameOldStory]

In Camden you can be perfectly legally parked and get a ticket. It's happened to me several times. They also make the parking signs so fiendishly difficult to understand that they get all the tourists and foreigners. The parking wardens definitely can't understand them (or indeed basic English) so the innocent motorist gets fecked over. It's almost certainly the reason Liebour lost Camden.

If you're legally parked and get a ticket you can challenge it.

If you genuinely can't understand the signs, then they are almost certainly invalid, and not enforceable.

[TheMonkey]

Count yourself lucky your car wasn't clamped and/or removed.

They were working on that one! They did that when I was driving a Land Rover 110 which ironically broke their truck. Ha ha ha.

[Mordac]

If you're legally parked and get a ticket you can challenge it.

If you genuinely can't understand the signs, then they are almost certainly invalid, and not enforceable.

Yes you can challenge it, but after several weeks most people give up. After all, it's my word against the wardens that I was parked in a P&D bay as opposed to a residents permit bay. And Camden is famous for it's ambiguous signs - I pointed out a few and they were still there years later. The system is designed to be as confusing as possible, in the hope that people just pay the £50 and be done with it.
Thankfully the NewLie (or is it OldLie) scum got kicked out on the back of it.