Parking, aaaarrrggghhhh!!

[zara_backdog]

Too much time and bother - for the sake of 25quid I would just payup.
Anoying I know

[Cheshire Cat]

pay the fine. write it off. move on. life's too short.

[Board Game Geek]

but the principle

What principle ? There is no principle.

You paid for a ticket between x and y.

Not x and y + other.

Why do you feel you should receive preferential treatment ?

As Brillo says : How long over the time limit do you want?

[BrilloPad]

Seems fair to me. How long over the time limit do you want?

[Cliphead]

yes but who is the judge of how accurate the clock on his penalty machine is?? How do I know if it syncs with the clock on the ticket machine? if his machine is 2 minutes fast and the ticket machine is 2 minutes slow... etc etc.

Stop whining and pay up, you got it wrong.

[NetwkSupport]

Returned to my car today in public car park at 2.05pm (thereabouts) having purchased a ticket covering 12:00 to 2pm. Found a ticket slapped on the windscreen:

Date of contravention: 4/11/08, Time of contravention: 14:06
Ticket expiry time: 14:00
Car observed from 14:06 to 14:06

Not what I would call flexibility on their part. Anyone have any tips on how best to appeal. Seems to me that the accuracy (or not as the case may be) of the timer on the ticket machine and/or the officers penalty issuing machine could also be as inaccurate as my time keeping and therefore mean that I may not have gone over time at all (or barely). Technically I am in the wrong but come on....a matter of minutes and hardly taking the proverbial

Its not a huge amount (£25 if paid within 14 days) but the principle. Anyone ever appealed successfully with this type of thing?

I got a ticket for being 2 minutes past the ticket expiry - my watch was 5 minutes slow!! Anyway, tore the ticket up, threw it on the floor. Sold the car last week. and it was registered elsewhere anyway. am i a criminal?

[swamp]

£25!!! That's what I normally pay to park.

I take it you're not from London, otherwise your car would be on a flat-bed lorry on its way to the car pound, and you'd be looking for a taxi so you can queue up with the other mis-fortunates of the day, waiting to pay £250 to someone behind a small, barred window with "we will not tolerate any verbal abuse" written above it.

[Uncle Max]

yes but who is the judge of how accurate the clock on his penalty machine is?? How do I know if it syncs with the clock on the ticket machine? if his machine is 2 minutes fast and the ticket machine is 2 minutes slow... etc etc.

[d000hg]

If the attendant only comes round every 30min or every hour, this is probably fair enough. Unless you can find a way to reasonably suggest clocks were wrong by a few minutes it's probably just tough... at least you were in the wrong so it's more unlucky than unjust.

[TykeMerc]

Appeals over the time aren't likely to win since the ticket issuer will have timestamps on his machine and camera.

Now if the limited time parking signage isn't perfect or the lines on the road aren't up to spec you can beat it as there are lots of technicalities they must obey to issue a valid ticket.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Didn't we have a few links to a forum that specialises in this kind of thing recently?

[AtW]

you were 1 minute too late for that

Or the parking attendent forgot to move his clock back 1 hour...

[Spacecadet]

they probably have a 5 minute window after the ticket expires... you were 1 minute too late for that

[Uncle Max]

Returned to my car today in public car park at 2.05pm (thereabouts) having purchased a ticket covering 12:00 to 2pm. Found a ticket slapped on the windscreen:

Date of contravention: 4/11/08, Time of contravention: 14:06
Ticket expiry time: 14:00
Car observed from 14:06 to 14:06

Not what I would call flexibility on their part. Anyone have any tips on how best to appeal. Seems to me that the accuracy (or not as the case may be) of the timer on the ticket machine and/or the officers penalty issuing machine could also be as inaccurate as my time keeping and therefore mean that I may not have gone over time at all (or barely). Technically I am in the wrong but come on....a matter of minutes and hardly taking the proverbial

Its not a huge amount (£25 if paid within 14 days) but the principle. Anyone ever appealed successfully with this type of thing?