Bloody hell

[Doggy Styles]

I bought a new monthly parking ticket for the station car park the other day but forgot to display it in the car. So the next day I found a penalty notice stuck to my driver's door window.

Bloody jobsworths. I died in the war for people like them.

Is there any way to avoid paying it? Is it worth hiring Mr Loophole?

[PRC1964]

You could try this: http://www.majicari.com/index.php?sid=39

You write a sob story and get enough people to vote for it and they'll pay your ticket.

[ratewhore]

I died in the war for people like them.

[TimberWolf]

It doesn't seem right that you pay and get fined. One or the other, you should at least be entitled to 1/30th of your money being refunded. What the legal position is I have no idea though.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Didn't we all go and visit a forum for people who refuse to take any responsibilty for where and when they park earlier this year?

[lambrini_socialist]

meh, what's the issue here? you weren't displaying a ticket, you get fined. seems straightforward. i mean, i buy swimming trunks, but i'm generally expected to actually wear them at the pool.

[BrilloPad]

I bought a new monthly parking ticket for the station car park the other day but forgot to display it in the car. So the next day I found a penalty notice stuck to my driver's door window.

Bloody jobsworths. I died in the war for people like them.

Is there any way to avoid paying it? Is it worth hiring Mr Loophole?

How were te jobsworths supposed to know you had a ticket? Are they supposed to employ mystic meg or something?

[Mich the Tester]

How were te jobsworths supposed to know you had a ticket? Are they supposed to employ mystic meg or something?

Well, to be fair, if people with well paid jobs can spend their time posting on CUK, why don't people with crap jobs like traffic warden just find a greasy spoon cafe to sit down with a cuppa and read the paper instead of making everyone hate them?

[Bagpuss]

I bought a new monthly parking ticket for the station car park the other day but forgot to display it in the car. So the next day I found a penalty notice stuck to my driver's door window.

Bloody jobsworths. I died in the war for people like them.

Is there any way to avoid paying it? Is it worth hiring Mr Loophole?

Is it covered by an appeals process like council parking is?

[TimberWolf]

meh, what's the issue here? you weren't displaying a ticket, you get fined. seems straightforward. i mean, i buy swimming trunks, but i'm generally expected to actually wear them at the pool.

He's being fined the same as someone who has not bought a ticket though. On proof of being in possession of a valid ticket, he should either:

• be refunded 1/30th the cost of the monthly ticket
• the fine be reduced to take into consideration proof of a lesser offence