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I lazily parked on double yellows in my street, and so deservedly woke up this morning to find a parking ticket on me windscreen.

But wait a minute... it says i was 'parked in a restricted street during prescribed hours'

Is this the same thing, or was the cunting traffic warden just a bit tired (on duty at 21:00 on a Saturday night i tells ya) and fined me wrong?

Basically, can i get away without paying??

No.

Double yellows means no parking full stop, ignore the restriction lark, thats for one yellow (I think).

you have double yellow lines outside your house?

Yeah. well, sort of. My street has space for so many cars, and then some bits with double yellows that everyone parks on anyway.

My thinking is i will get away without paying.

I went back to my car the other day and someone had kindly taken the time to put a sticker saying 'parking fine' on it.

Which was nice of them, although 'parking very good' would have been better.

you know what I'd do? I would eat the parking ticket and claim Ive never even seen it.

Sometimes I take parking tickets off cars when im drunk. Just to prove it could happen

Hmm, I remember Turley writing his own parking fines on windscreens with a black marker a few weeks ago.... novel idea  8)

I got one the other day too. One of the residents selotaped an A4 piece of paper to my windscreen and it said;

I LIKE TO:

Obstruct the pavement
Block prams and pushchairs
Be a nuisance to the general public

I tore it up into little pieces and left it on the ground where my car was!

perfect response, i feel...

Well i heard a cheeky story about a parking fine, and how someone  made money out of the situation.

The person who got the fine had a really posh car, worth somewhere in the region of 100k  :shock: .  What he did was, on the car he put a sign saying  'if anyone touches this car, and is found to do so,  they will obtain a £100 fine'

The man who gave the fine touched the car, and hence had to pay the £100 fine

The initial parking fine was for £50 i think,  meaning he made £50 overall

Ha, shame you didnt get the same punishment as parking on double red lines at work, some usless begger clamps your car untill you ask them to remove it. Pointless.....

this thread makes me feel a bit sad

sam parkin  :cry:  :cry:  :cry:

you can take them off yourself with an allen key

Nice.....remember when they just used to put a letter or something on there....someone in my team went fucking mental at them because they touched his brand new £54,000ish BMW M3 CSL.

Did anyone see that program that Paul Xenon did where he did various things to get back at traffic wardens? It was quite amusing the lengths they went to  :-))(

For instance, he found out that they can't touch your vehicle (traffic wardens). Knowing this, he put a disclaimer on his dashboard that said something like 'Do not touch vehicle: Penalty £100'. He also broke the windscreen wiper.

He basically got the traffic warden to discard the ticket because they had lifted the windscreen wiper and he then said it the warden had broken it and that was his proof.

Apparently my fine is for:

'Code No. 01

On street- Parked in a restricted street

This contravention occurs when a motorist parks on-street on a single or double yellow line during the hours it is operational, in contravention of the relevant Traffic Management Order.'

Best check the prescribed hours then... it's my only hope of avoiding this... grrrrr. :x