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| Thread ID: 124386 | 2012-04-23 22:31:00 | Parking ticket confusion | DeSade (984) | PC World Chat |
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| 1271501 | 2012-04-24 00:41:00 | I had an uncle who would never pay anything without a fight, he often succeeded despite being in the wrong because councils etc would just give up and let him off when he made it too hard for them. One example is when he parked illegally on the grass verge and got a ticket. A car parked on the road beside his was on an expired meter and didn't get a ticket so he refused to pay unless they tracked down that car and issued them a ticket as well. A rubbish argument but he stuck to it and got off. Another time he got ticketed for an overlength load (an old power pole) without appropriate flags. Noticing the officer didn't actually measure the pole he went home and replaced it with a shorter one, took a photo, and wrote a letter explaining how when he got home and measured it that it was in fact legal. Again he got off. He's no longer with us which is why I feel safe sharing these, and I don't really condone it, but it just goes to show if you're bold enough and stick to your guns sometimes things go your way. Edit: had to add the funniest/scariest one; He was basically blind in one eye and when the optometrist testing his eyesight on the chart would ask him to switch eyes he would switch hands but cover the same eye again. A real character my uncle. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1271502 | 2012-04-24 00:47:00 | I used to park like this but on my grass verge (so no ticket) but then one day a got a bottle of tui through the back window....what a mess! If i had parked the right way around, the bottle would of hit the front window so the bottle wouldn't have ended up in my car, and the window wouldn't have shattered. | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1271503 | 2012-04-24 01:11:00 | Trev, what a crock of Sh*t mate :) | DeSade (984) | ||
| 1271504 | 2012-04-24 05:35:00 | Not at all. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1271505 | 2012-04-24 06:00:00 | Parents live in a quiet culdesac, their have had a ticket for parking over a drive wy, their drive way, a ticket for parking in the wrong direction outside their house. What parking wardens are doing in newlands I have no idea, what their are doing in one of the quietest streets in the suburb has me stumped. No it wasnt a neighbour that phoned. | plod (107) | ||
| 1271506 | 2012-04-24 06:44:00 | Parents live in a quiet culdesac, their have had a ticket for parking over a drive wy, their drive way, a ticket for parking in the wrong direction outside their house. What parking wardens are doing in newlands I have no idea, what their are doing in one of the quietest streets in the suburb has me stumped. No it wasnt a neighbour that phoned. Looking for easy pickings I think. |
Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1271507 | 2012-04-24 07:15:00 | Yup, it's the most productive of fines. Fine the neighbourhoods of people who can and will pay. Why waste your time on real infringements in the city where half the tickets get tossed away into the wind, never to be paid. Sure, it's not fair, but it makes $$$. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1271508 | 2012-04-24 07:42:00 | According to Prefect - if you break these minor laws it can lead to theft, rape,murder, like cannabis supposedly leading to heroin as far as I can work out. Withhold that ten buck fine today and you might be slitting a parking wardens throat next year. We need to stamp this backward parking out before it leads to genocide. |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 1271509 | 2012-04-24 07:56:00 | I got a ticket in Wellington for parking 'on the footpath'. I, like all the other cars down the street, had parked with two wheels up on the kerb, as it was a typical narrow Wellington street. Couldn't believe it. $40 fine. | pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 1271510 | 2012-04-24 09:06:00 | It can cause confusion at night time when your headlight beams strike the headlight reflectors of the wrong facing car and blind you and cause you to crash into something. :) Not quite correct but in the right direction, depending on circumstances especially at night or poor visibilty a vehicle parked facing the wrong way can mislead oncoming vehilce into assuming a vehicle is on the wrong side of the road, causing the driver to swerve to avoid a crash and put themselves off the road. Might seem petty but has a safety merit. Again a road rule to be broken! |
coldfront (15814) | ||
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