parking tickets

 I got a parking ticket for not displaying a valid parking permit etc
etc but because I did in fact have a valid perking permit displayed, I
assumed that a mistake had been made and emailed the council
accordingly. The following day I saw a warden giving me another ticket
so I asked what he was doing, he said "you're not displaying a valid
permit", so I showed him the permit displayed on the screen. He then
showed me my expired tax disc and said that the permit wasn't valid
because the tax disc had expired! How devious is that? I had in fact
applied for a tax disc on 10th December allowing plenty of time for it
to get to me before the end of Dec, however, it never arrived and I
forgot all about it. As soon as I was made aware of the actual reason,
I got a duplicate tax disc (FOC) from my local DVLA office.

  choice@bixdesignstudio.co.uk wrote:

I don't know how devious it is, but it sounds like parking wardens all
over the world.  Chances are, the law requires you to not only have
applied for it, but to display it.  But it's the sort of thing that if
your paperwork really is in order, you can probably get dismissed if
you appear suitably contrite.

Dave

 funny story here about parking tickets.

Many years ago, I was having surgery and my mother parked in the hospital
parking lot - which had meters.  Surgery took longer than expected and she
got a parking ticket.  I was hospitalized for 2 weeks after the surgery.  My
mother continued to come every day - and parked in the same parking lot -
with the parking ticket under the wiper - and she put nothing in the meters.
She never got another ticket in those 2 weeks - and the original ticket cost
was less than feeding the meter would have been.  She put the ticket with
the fine in the 'courtesy' box the day she brought me home.

JonquilJan

Learn something new every day
As long as you are learning, you are living
When you stop learning, you start dying

 
 And the lesson here folks is that crooks large or petty, have 24/7 to
figure out how to cheat the system.
Thank you for sharing.

 albundy2@mailinator.com wrote:


Good for your mom!  Ignore albundy.


Don't be an ass.  Hospitals and medical buildings charge an arm and a leg for
parking because (a) they can influence where on-street parking is prohibited;
(2) you can't choose a doctor with free parking because there aren't any; and
(3) it's a profit center for the docs who, naturally, make you wait an hour
AFTER your appointment time to see you.

Screw 'em when you can, they do it to you!

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Cheers, Bev
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