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Thread ID: 65249 2006-01-12 02:12:00 Is it an offence to park outside your own house with an expired WOF? Billy T (70) PC World Chat
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420396 2006-01-24 01:17:00 While it may get results, I don't believe any supermarket would allow ticketing in their carparks. PaulD (232)
420397 2006-01-24 02:09:00 ALL parking lots in California are dedicated rights-of-way and have the onus of being police patrolled and have the same enforceable laws as streets and byways. All applicable laws are gleefully enforced by the local constables.

Another shot in the arm here lately.

California has so many older cars in very good condition body-wise, that it is a cottage industry to pull one out into a field and make it look like it's been parked there for a few years. The Sunday drivers from the big city see them and make ridiculously large offers to purchase them for "restoration".

That being said, now along comes ol' Arnie The Governator, and he sees revenue in them there fields and sics the state tax board onto the land owners and fines them for having unregistered vehicles in eye shot. Even if they are in rusted hulk-condition, they are still taxable (via the department of motor vehicles definition of "vehicle = a contrivance that is used to purvey persons and/or cargo any distance via the use of internal combustion" ideology.

So..we get guys with suits and field glasses peering into the fields and open barn doors to see if by chance they can espy a vehicle of any sorts and then enter it into their little laptops and have the state tax board collect fines and fees for the state because of delinquent registration and fees by seizing the property or tax refunds from the owner until the debt is paid.

California is beginning to s@(k really big nowadays.
SurferJoe46 (51)
420398 2006-01-25 01:15:00 Phase 1:

Posted a carefully worded letter to the Council today, sticking strictly to the options they provided and, amongst other things, pointing out that the vehicle could not be moved off the road because it had been immobilised by persons unknown. I also added a few other relevant facts and photos of the damage as proof of veracity.

I have disabled the steering lock and shifted it off the road of course, as a precaution against wanton towage.

Watch this space.

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
Billy T (70)
420399 2006-01-25 02:32:00 I have found my advocate,for when I get into strife. :thumbs: Cicero (40)
420400 2006-01-25 03:55:00 I have found my advocate,for when I get into strife. :thumbs:

My pleasure Ciccy. :D Consumer advocacy is one of my business sidelines and I do enough each year to keep my hand in. Got a Disputes Tribunal matter coming up soon for myself, but within the limits they allow I have steered a few people through the process to a successful outcome. I have also acted as an expert witness commissioned by the Tribunal to assist the Referee in a technical dispute.

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
Billy T (70)
420401 2006-01-25 04:34:00 My pleasure Ciccy. :D Consumer advocacy is one of my business sidelines and I do enough each year to keep my hand in. Got a Disputes Tribunal matter coming up soon for myself, but within the limits they allow I have steered a few people through the process to a successful outcome. I have also acted as an expert witness commissioned by the Tribunal to assist the Referee in a technical dispute.

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
You have missed your vocation.Barrister. :cool:
Cicero (40)
420402 2006-01-29 21:36:00 Hmm now everyone with the Herald dated Monday 30th January, take a look at the sideswipe section of Section A (the back page)
Look at the last paragraph. It looks familiar somehow... :illogical:
bob_doe_nz (92)
420403 2006-01-29 21:48:00 Hey Bob..... don't forget most of the country don't see/get the Herald. Tell us all about it. Scouse (83)
420404 2006-01-29 22:22:00 www.imagef1.net.nz

Erm, BillyT isn't a jafa is he?
But the simalarities are soooo close
bob_doe_nz (92)
420405 2006-01-29 23:45:00 www.imagef1.net.nz

Erm, BillyT isn't a jafa is he?
But the simalarities are soooo close
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ninja (1671)
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