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I parked by that Burger King for the Stevenage game and i have been hit with a 'parking charge'.

£100 reduced to £60 blah ....i over stayed my time etc etc.

My understanding is that only Plod and Councils can issue fines and these are just 'invoices' with no legal remit to pay.

Is this right? :hmmm:

Any web links with info.

The complication is that its a Company car and i dont want a load of shit arriving there.

Advice and abuse please.

things have changed of late and some companies Parking Eye being one are taking people to court

check out the advise on http://forums.pepipoo.com/

You overstayed your time in burger king? Were you taking Jutty out for a meal?  :)

I parked in Aldi for the Chelski game and got a bill from Parking Eye.

They followed up with a letter threatening legal action.

I completely ignored everything and have heard nowt since.

Thats my view.....

If i buy from a shop, i am issued with a receipt...contract.

If i tick a terms box on the web...contract

No contract here just a sign...which i didnt see, as i wouldnt of parked there....so fuck off..

I got a ticket from a private company last autumn. Ignored it and have heard nothing since.

Only KFC, i don't eat Burger King.

Just admit it, you knew it was cheeky parking there and you probably ignored any signs on purpose to plead your ignorance.

Next time don't be such a lazy cunt and it won't happen again.

I heard he parked his car half in a disabled space, half in a mother and toddler space, just because.

He also ran over a litter of puppies. I know because I heard their squeals as he tried to run over the kittens in the next space.

He told me he had them scalped & the fur made into new seat covers.

1: If it was private motor, I'd ignore EVERYTHING they send, or use it as toilet paper.

That includes the threats, phoney lawyers letters, court warrants, distraint bailiff letters etc etc (it takes some bollocks to ignore it all, because it's designed to scare the shit out of you with all those 'pay us a few quid now and we'll keep it at a manageble level' threats - but you'll keep ALL your money in your pocket if you've got the balls to see out the game.

As it's a Company car though, all the bullshit letters and threats will go your HR or transport manager - which is harder to ignore for obvious reasons.

I'd warn your HR / Transport manager about the problem, aks them to 'shop' you by giving them your details as the 'possible' driver on the day, and ask them to send all correspondance to your home address.

Then simply repeat step 1 above.

You can have great fun with it because they do get really lairy with all the letters and threats and the official looking letters with police-stylee checker board motifs all over them.

But it's all a money making game being run by some limp-dicked bunch of wankers in a rented office who buy your info from the DVLA for £5.00 a pop, in the hope that you're stupid and will pay up when they scare you enough.

The game works really well on the uninformed, old people, vulnerable people, busy people etc....

Dont bite. Dont write back or reply to anything they send you. They will go away when they realise you're not playing their cunty game.

I've done this myself half a dozen times in various 'Private' car parks in Swindon, such as Tesco, Aldi, Burger King and Co-Op.

It works.

Pepipoo (what an absolute shite name for a parking / traffic fine website) is very, very good and gives valuable advice and support with this bullshit. Definately have a good look there.

And please let us know how you get on?

I got a "parking charge" for parking in Go Outdoors for 4.5 hours!!  Did drive through the car park but at no time did I park there.  I could prove I was elsewhere and I told them that I had no intention of paying as I could prove I was elsewhere for three of the four hours mentioned and would see them in court, got a reply that they had reviewed all the data and on this occasion had decided to rescind the charge.  Went in and showed the manager the two letters and told him our family will no longer be shopping there in the future, got a gift voucher for my troubles!!

I got clamped at Newquay train station about 20 years ago,  the guys had just put it on as I got to the car. Had only parked for 5-10 mins to drop some people off! The sign warning of clamping was behind a parked car. The bloke was built like a brick shit house,  and I decided on diplomacy after he exchanged pleasantries with a passing copper,  on first name terms. £60 later and it was off.

This might help Flash

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/caradvice/honestjohn/7952294/90-fine-for-parking-in-McDonalds.html

My sister used my mums car and parked at The Range for 3 hours. There's been a heap of shit since; my mum ignored the letter initially and didn't hear anything for a while, checked online and all the advice said nothing would come of it. Then they wrote another letter basically saying see you in court. Upon reading futher, more recent advice, a lot of people seem to just be paying the fine and getting it done with now. Haven't spoken about it for a while but as far as I know my mums still due in court. Just depends which route you want to take bearing in mind it could get messy.

Instead of trying to get out of fines you deserve, how about not being so selfish and not taking up spaces in busy car parks?

 

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I took the last two places at 7pm...it was fucking packed...

How big is your car?

But it's not a fine, is it? It's an arbitrary charge that's unenforceable

This

Jeez. It's a fucking Burger King car park not a hospital.

Ok, Let's take your parking in Aldi for example. It is a busy supermarket with limited parking at the best of times let alone when football is on. What do you think gives you the right to just leave your car there to go to a football match with no consequences?

Do you honestly think Aldi's car park would be rammed on a Tuesday evening?

There are a lot of things to get riled up about, but staying an extra hour in a supermarket car park ain't one of them.

Perspective

I don't give a flying fuck to be honest. I'm just not sympathetic if people knowingly parking where they shouldn't getting tickets.

Agreed. Same as people who moan about speed cameras. Don't fucking speed then you cunts.

It's not about not parking where I shouldn't it's about overstaying by an hour and some faceless company trying it on to extort £90.

I do admire those of you who abide by every rule and reg

 :) very wise...why not get rid of your motor, like I did, so much less stress in life, although finding somewhere secure to park my bike can be difficult.

The 'I was only parked on the double yellows for 10 minutes or I only overstayed by x amount of time' cunts are the worst.

Whenever I've parked somewhere I shouldn't have done (retail car parks) I've done so on the basis that the benefits outweighed the risks, but if they caught me out I'd suck it up and not complain about it. I'd try to get out of it, but to act like I have some sort of self entitlement to park wherever I liked would mean going up several levels of cuntishness.

I may have complained about this before. 

Around the corner from me is a shop wit a roundabout in front of it.  Just past the roundabout are parking bays but if you go on to them then you have to go straight on to a one way road which takes you under a rail bridge and out onto a main road.  So apparently its fine to park on the roundabout, which is also double yellow lines.  Just so you can then back up and spin round the roundabout and not go on a slight diversion.

It drives me fucking insane.