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To think a traffic warden could allow me

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LynetteScavo · 30/11/2009 22:07

to be just a couple of minutes late back to my car.

I mean everybody gets held up...10 minutes late, then fair play....but she could see me desperately charging towards my car and still slammed the ticket on the wind screen and took a photo.

I think she was mean.

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OooohWhatAFuss · 02/12/2009 14:17

The only time I have had a ticket overturned was when the time on it was 20mins ahead of the real time... I was in a one hour space and the traffic warden had obviously hoped that I would not return on time but could not be bothered to hang around. I rang the department at the concil straight away and asked them the time, once they told me I explained about the ticket. They cancelled it but I still had to pay for the phone call! However I have had a number of tickets over the years through disorganisation/laziness. After paying so many times I stopped making the mistake!

mayorquimby · 02/12/2009 14:20

hardly "not true at all" then is it, in your case there was a mistake made and the ticket was rescinded. completely different to people who have parked in the wrong but then expect to get special treatment because "i'm only 10 minutes late/i've got 3 kids and a load of shopping with me/ i got held up in the shops or at work"
there'll always be some exceptions where someone has been ticketed wrongly due to a mistake (the most frequent one i've heard is the ticket slipping down the dashboard and becoming unseeable to a warden) but the op wasn't ticketed due to a mistake, she was ticketed because she was late.
so i'll rephrase myself and say that 99% of the time if you park legally they can't give you a ticket with the other 1% coming down to human or machine based errors which should of course be rescinded.

SoupDragon · 02/12/2009 14:21

She was mean.
You were in the wrong.
[shrug]
Been there done that.

SoupDragon · 02/12/2009 14:27

"in London, a traffic warden should revoke the ticket if you're within 3 minutes if you turn up while they're writing it.
if they tell you they can't, then they're breaking the bylaws of London."

Is there a link to that byelaw?

nickelbabe · 02/12/2009 15:05

Soupdragon
sorry, i don't know where to find it.

i watched a programme a whiole ago on the telly where this bloke had a copy of "the Book" which is a book of all the traffic laws of LBC and he helped people get out of parking fines and stuff. it was to do with the traffic wardens giving more tickets in order to make targets.

i'll try to find something, but i can't promise anything (in which case, please don't take my quotation as fact just in case i can't prove it)

Maleeka · 02/12/2009 15:56

I got out of my parking ticket by driving off before she could put it on my windscreeen and take a pic!

They sent me the full fee ticket by post a couple weeks later and i asked them to prove that i had been given a ticket and didnt hear anything back from them.

Its been a couple years now so i think i can breathe easy

Have to thank the PCO's round our school tho who turn up ocassionally to wage war on the TW's on behalf of us mums who park for what 5 mins out of the way and not blocking anyone!

HerBeatitude · 02/12/2009 19:05

Oh FGS some of you have such a bloody ludicrous sense of entitlement. The reason PCSO's turn up and target schools, is because so many parents dropping their kids off at school park illegally, inconsiderately and unsafely, putting the safety of all the other children attending that school at risk. I wouldn't mind, but a good percentage of those parents are not going on to work or shopping or dropping other children off, they live within a 15 minute walk of the school and it hasn't occurred to them to get off their lazy fat arses and walk and get their kids to walk. It is ludicrously fat philistine behaviour and it makes me gibber with irritation.

magicofchristmas · 02/12/2009 20:45

Regularly see traffic wardens turn up at least 5 mins before the parking restrictions start.

I once got out of my car, crossed the road to put money in the machine for a ticket and luckily for some reason I happened to turn round, to find a traffic warden eyeing up my car and get his little machine ready to issue me with a fine. I shouted out and he walked off.

Instances like these, no wonder they get a bad name

sarah293 · 03/12/2009 08:46

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littleducks · 03/12/2009 09:56

I dont agree with all the 'if there were no traffic wardens it would be chaos posts' our council took over the parking control for our town a yearish ago, before that there were no traffic wardens, parking has def gotten worse but council income has gone up.

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LynetteScavo · 03/12/2009 10:06

It's the same here, littleducks.

Teh traffice wardens only patrol the town centre, so can't go and sort out the roads around schools, unfortunately. I really, really wish they would go and slap some tickets on the windscreen of the parents who park outside DS's old school....they double park, park on the pavement so puschchairs can't get past etc, and basically jam up two enitre roads twice a day. The police have put warning notices on cars, but of course no one took any notice.

The wardens seem to be camping out in the indoor carparks to keep dry,atm, so people who really are blocking the town centre with their crazy parking are getting away with it.

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RenderedSpeechless · 03/12/2009 10:24

i find illegal parking outside schools particularly indefensible. dont understand a mindset that considers that it is ok to put OTHER childrens lives at risk, just because it is more convenient for THEIR OWN children
to walk less far. totally selfish and disgusting behaviour. its a good thing when wardens have a visible presence outside schools. at my dds school parents are encouraged to report registration number of vehicles parked on school zig zags to the school sec. this can by text, email orin person. head teacher will send alleged offender a polite reminder. i know i'd be damn embarrassed to look said teacher in the face if i received one. it is now also part of the home-school agreement.

MOC, just to know that your post implies that the warden in that case knew that you were the driver and was just seizing the chance to sneakily issue a ticket. tickets cannot usually issue tickets in the way you might suppose - especially in the situation you described.

SkipToMyLou · 03/12/2009 10:30

Well seeing as one of the kids at our school nearly got hit by a car because they couldn't see properly to cross the road due to all the illegaly-parked cars, I'm rather glad the PCSO was out 'hounding' us parents later that day and issuing tickets. You may not be blocking anyone, but if people can't see to cross the road (Green Cross Code ring a bell?) then you are causing a massive problem.

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LynetteScavo · 03/12/2009 10:35

But dangerous parking, and being three minutes over your paid ticket time in a multi storey car park are two different things, IMO.

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SkipToMyLou · 03/12/2009 11:20

Oh yes, I was responding to more recent posts. I'm not sure which side of the fence I'm on, I can see the need for rules, but I can also see that a few minutes leniency, especially as you were rushing back and not just blatantly ignoring the time, wouldn't go amiss.

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