2 parking tickets in one day!

[goldenharvest]

DH and I met up at a local beauty spot and did a 5 mile walk and took some photos. Got back to our respective cars to collect kids and they both had parking tickets (cars not kids). The area is pretty isolated, Ladybower reservoir, and the 'car park' was literally some waste ground. No signs anywhere. We have taken photos and will contest them, but is this even legal?

If you live in the country parking on a grass verge is pretty common, and double yellow lines confined to towns. 🤣

@goldenharvest

If you live in the country parking on a grass verge is pretty common, and double yellow lines confined to towns. 🤣

What? I live in the countryside and I still understand the Highway Code.

@NerrSnerr Well done you! I need to get on my sackcloth and ashes and start beating myself around the head for not being aware you shouldn't park fully on a grass verge next to a road with double yellow lines. Been driving 20 years with a clean license and I didn't know this incredibly important rule 😱. I'll have to drown myself in that bloody reservoir.

[quote goldenharvest]@NerrSnerr Well done you! I need to get on my sackcloth and ashes and start beating myself around the head for not being aware you shouldn't park fully on a grass verge next to a road with double yellow lines. Been driving 20 years with a clean license and I didn't know this incredibly important rule 😱. I'll have to drown myself in that bloody reservoir. [/quote]
There is no need to be so dramatic. Fair enough you made a mistake but now you realise you can't park on a verge near double yellows why not just hold your hands up.

My gran has been driving for 30 years and thinks that the speed limit on a dual carriageway A-road is 60MPH. The length of time you've been driving clearly doesn't relate to your knowledge of the Highway Code. 🤷‍♀️

If you do decide to go back to the reservoir for your flagellation and drowning ritual, make sure you look up the car park location on Google first.

Don’t worry OP, you made a mistake (a mistake in asking a load of people who think parking on a verge is on par with murder)! It’s unfortunate, it happened, pay the fines and move on.

You made a mistake but for others reading this grass verges are often no parking because they can be areas of special scientific interest or animal habitat that parking damages irrevocably. The new forest management had a major issue this last year with people parking Outside the car parks and damaging very vulnerable habitats.

[quote goldenharvest]@NerrSnerr Well done you! I need to get on my sackcloth and ashes and start beating myself around the head for not being aware you shouldn't park fully on a grass verge next to a road with double yellow lines. Been driving 20 years with a clean license and I didn't know this incredibly important rule 😱. I'll have to drown myself in that bloody reservoir. [/quote]
You did put up an AIBU, so you were opening yourself up for it somewhat.

And yes YABU

@NerrSnerr I've put my hand up multiple times. I've said we will pay. I've said we weren't aware of the grass verge rules. I've said I didnt know there were car parks. I've said we would happily have paid for tickets.

@PolPotNoodle I will not be paying for a car parking ticket. I shall drive myself into the reservoir, thus avoiding paying both the ticket and the fine. I don't need to self flagellate, I'm getting enough of that on here 😂

Goodness me OP, you're ever so angry! You chose to post in AIBU and people thought you were. It's not the end of the world!

@youvegottenminuteslynn I'm not angry, just a bit frustrated that people don't read what I've written (about 10 times) A bit angry I guess at being called a liar on several occasions and accused of being a poor driver, evading paying tickets, and called weird, but that's aibu and something I expect.

The AIBU is, incidentally, to be annoyed with myself for not realising the situation and researching more, as well as a few more notices about parking. I could well have missed them as I was shitting myself on the hairy journey there with the terrifying drops at the side of the road.

Op you're getting a hard time because you claim you've held your hand up then immediately contradict yourself in each post.
It isn't believable that you live so rurally that you don't know how parking rules work, yet you don't know that parking and causing obstructions on country lans is a problem. Or that you live close enough that you're not breaching lockdowns yet you've never heard of one of the most popular tourist areas nearby. Or that you live in England and haven't noticed that cafes and shops have been closed for the last few weeks.

If you're going to own something just own it.

@BackforGood

This gets weirder and weirder.

Your title implies that you've been caught, twice, in the same day parking illegally, when, in truth, this was one sweep by the parking warden, you just took two cars and parked both of them illegally.
You've gone from it being a car park, to admitting it was a grass verge by double yellow lines.
You've gone from it being an isolated place to being a popular tourist attraction.
You've gone from it being right by the dcs' school to being 45 mins away (not sure why you took 2 cars to do that).
You've said you've never heard of it (being a popular place for people to go and walk) , yet you've decided to drive for 3/4 hour to get there.

None of this makes sense.
Just pay the fines and think more carefully about where you park next time.

if you are going ot be quite so bitchy, can I suggest you get the facts right? Several of the things you have 'quoted' are the direct opposite of what the OP said!

Ignore the parking police on MN OP.

For what it's worth when I lived near Ilkley Moor people often pulled onto the verges because the car park was so small. There weren't any signs not to do so.
The council's in the UK are like vultures with parking charges and fines.

There weren't any signs not to do so.

So, no double yellow lines.

I love int he countryside, and there are several ppular spots around, and when the car parks are full people park all over the verges.

People only mind if it is on their land, or blocking the road

wow so many typos, sorry

I live in the countryside

@goldenharvest

If you live in the country parking on a grass verge is pretty common, and double yellow lines confined to towns. 🤣

I live in the countryside and parking on grass verges is seen as very antisocial particularly in the winter when they turn to mud from car tyres.

@Aroaringfire Demonstration of these contradictions please? You clearly haven't read everything I put. I live in a village. We didn't cause an obstruction. M&S is open (didn't you see an earlier thread), as are places that serve food.

A sign is .....a sign. A double yellow line is .....a double yellow line. It's a road marking which of course we saw and didn't park on, or the road, but well off on the verge. (Which I now realise we shouldn't have done)

@steppemum Thank you. The voice of sanity. Where I live no one bothers about verge parking.

People seem strangely unwilling to actually read what an OP says and thinks calling them a liar is fun. Not in the slightest bit bothered by them, just stunned by the stupidity. As I no doubt some of them are stunned by my stupidity by not knowing I was in a major tourist area (despite it being almost deserted), not researching the car park situation (note to self, never do anything on the spur of the moment) not realising a grass verge is counted as a road wrt double yellow lines (surely I can't be the only one?) preferring to go for a country walk in an isolated area rather than sit in a cafe or go to Tesco and have people cough on us?

A sign is .....a sign. A double yellow line is .....a double yellow line. It's a road marking which of course we saw and didn't park on, or the road, but well off on the verge. (Which I now realise we shouldn't have done)

You did park on the road though. The verge is just a bit of the road without tarmac on.

Did you walk all the way round? If you did (guessing so as it's a 6 mile walk), you walked past several car parks including a massive one with cafe, visitors centre and toilets.

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