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Original poster

To be so cross about being given a parking ticket after being gone 15 mins?

54 replies

greenbeanie · 21/05/2008 17:03

i know I should have bought a ticket but I parked in a large 1/2 full carpark to go in one shop. I was parked practically outside the door. I went in with my 2 ds (2 and 6) and was gone 15 minutes to find I had a parking ticket. The car park attendant must have been on to my car the second my back was turned. Is there any point appealing??

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charliecat · 21/05/2008 17:40

No, i think you are being perfectly reasonable...we will all pay and you just, well, you just dont bother ay

WanderingTrolley · 21/05/2008 17:41

If you're cross, you're cross. So your reaction isn't unreasonable.

However, your reasoning is. Car parks don't have a paying scale based on how full they are or many shops you go in, it's based on time. You parked, you didn't pay, you got caught.

I believe this is what is proverbially known as a fair cop, guv. Alas.

There is no point appealing. One of the appeals panel might be a mner.

WanderingTrolley · 21/05/2008 17:42

And how much was the ticket you didn't buy you cheapskate?

MagicMuffin · 21/05/2008 17:43

Dammit, I was really hoping you're a troll but I see you've posted before.

LIZS · 21/05/2008 17:44

You should display a ticket even if for 15 minutes or even if the first 30 is "free" and all you do is press a button for the ticket. Can't see what grounds you'd possibly have to appeal ?

RainyWednesday · 21/05/2008 17:45

itsahardknocklife Nope, I always buy a ticket - in fact I think this is the first time that I've ever got a charge for parking in a private car park. Haven't been there before (our local Sainsbury's has free parking) and there were signs up saying that parking was free for customers and as it was raining and I was rushing I parked near the door and ran in without going past any meters. I think that it's one of those places where you have to pay and then claim the money back at the till. Anyway, I was gutted to find a ticket when I came out 15 minutes later.

Even though I know they're a legal grey area, I will continue to buy a ticket. What I do object to is private parking companies harassing people and demanding excessive charges (the one I got was £70 or £50 if I paid within two weeks).

Chequers · 21/05/2008 17:48

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Chequers · 21/05/2008 17:48

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Doodle2U · 21/05/2008 17:54

Why is this in AIBU? What were you expecting - everyone to shout "NO! Not unreasonable at all - why should you have to pay like the rest of us great unwashed!"

FFS

Elasticwoman · 21/05/2008 20:03

You knew you ran the risk by leaving your car without a ticket.

Lulumama · 21/05/2008 20:06

am with humphrey on this!

Tortington · 21/05/2008 20:07

its a bummer! but one of those things am afraid.

Tortington · 21/05/2008 20:09

its only a parking ticket ffs. give her a break - it wouldnt kill anyone t say " fking bastard was lying in wait just for you"

its a real bummer - i think she knows sh should have got a ticket

oy vey

WigWamBam · 21/05/2008 20:11

No sympathy here, greenbeanie.

You knew it was pay and display, you knew you needed a ticket, but you thought you'd chance it anyway. And you got caught out. Who cares whether the attendant was on your car the second your back was turned? If you hadn't wanted a fine, you should have paid up.

Tough luck. Pay the fine, and pay for a ticket next time.

Elasticwoman · 21/05/2008 20:14

But even you, Custardo, couldn't bring yourself to question the parking attendant's parentage except indirectly!

Doodle2U · 21/05/2008 20:42

NO! I ain't giving her a break.

I can understand her feeling pissy for having been CAUGHT but tough shit. The rules are the same for the rest of us and 15 minutes or 15 seconds - yar still friggin' parked - so pay up and shut up.

IMO.

Tortington · 22/05/2008 00:10

pmsl at doodles vehemency.

'even me' pmsl...

true

just a parking ticket get over it

Original poster
greenbeanie · 22/05/2008 14:49

Sorry for any offence caused I probably didn't explain myself very well, am well aware that I don't deserve any special rights and that I was in the wrong. This is the 1st time I have ever had a parking ticket ( I have also never had a speeding ticket!) I am more cross with myself than anything as I have parked there many times before and always got a ticket, and also the fact that the ticket must have been put on the car the second my back was turned. I only posted in case, by some small chance, there was a way round it as we are on a really tight budget at the mo.

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vicky1985 · 22/05/2008 16:16

how much would the ticket have cost you?how much is the fine?

WilyWombat · 22/05/2008 16:23

YABU (sorry) Having said that I have forgotten to put a ticket on once I kicked myself all the way back to the car when I realised, luckily they rarely have a warden on so I got away with it.

If I had got a ticket then really although I would have beaten myself up over it and cursed the warden it would have served me right (pretty much as it did when I got done for speeding 3mph over the limit)

mumeeee · 22/05/2008 17:58

YABU. You parked and didn't pay so you got a parking fine.So there will not be in use in appealing.

LazyLinePainterJane · 22/05/2008 18:12

why must they have ticketed you as soon as your back was turned? You were gone for 15 minutes not 15 seconds.

zippitippitoes · 22/05/2008 18:27

well if you have never had a parking ticket then just divide the cost up over all the times that you have got away with it and it may seem less of a blow

i think you need to develop a secondnature over parking and always check...quite often you get 15 minutes free on a amchine ticket

ive never had a parking ticket or any traffic offence at all and i have been driving for 29 years [smug][lucky]

Flame · 22/05/2008 18:35

I realised as I walked into the car park once that i had forgotten the ticket - had been gone for an hour

Ran to my car and there was a warden there. She thought I was running to tell her I was at the machine getting a ticket , so I went and bought one (couldn't NOT after that) then went home

Original poster
greenbeanie · 22/05/2008 22:47

I know the ticket was put on the car the minute I went because it had the time printed on it. Anyway, off to pay the fine now

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