Masked bikers warn drivers about spy cars (From Southend Standard)

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  dodgie1 wrote:
  Mildrew 84 You just go to prove what I have said about knowing the facts. 'So why didn't you go to help her' you said , trying to make me out as an unhelpful person. Well the reason is I wasn't there at the time. Some of you seem to accept that every ticket issued is a rightful one with no fault on the side of the car operators. Why don't you join the real world where you will witness many wrongful things carried out by our Government and Councils. Many tickets issued by the cars are WRONG. That is why the appeal numbers in towns where they use these cars, have shot up. THEY ARE INDISCRIMINATE IN THEIR USE!! They were introduced to sort out dangerous parking and most people would not have a problem with that. The majority of tickets however, are not for dangerous parking. There is something else I would like to bring in to this forum. On the pcn, there is the indication that the lower amount to pay by a certain time before it doubles, is not allowed should the recipient appeal. This is totally misleading and not true. You are still allowed to pay the lower amount if you appeal and lose, provided the lower amount is paid within the designated time after the result of the appeal. The pcn fails to inform of this fact resulting in many people not appealing because of fear of losing the lower price.

  I received a parking ticket 2 years ago for parking in a residents bay instead of a public bay, i was unaware that the bay was for residents as it was not clearly marked. The warden was as indiscriminate as a spy car as he/she could have clearly seen the bay was not makred correctly. I contacted westminster council and highlighted my concerns and also sent them a copy of the ticket i had purchased and explained i had parked there as my disabled child had an appointment in the hospital which has no parking of its own and the spot i chose did not have residents markings, they were reasonable and compassionate enough to believe my genuine mistake and quashed the ticket. The point being in my experience if the ticket is genuinely wrongly given the local council will cooperate, the trouble is, everybody who gets a ticket thinks they have received it wrongly.... most of them time, they are given quite rightly, hence the reason not many people bother to appeal because deep down they know they have done wrong, so instead they portray themselves as having been victimised for "stopping for a couple of minutes and causing no-one else a problem".
  
  On another scale, my mother lives in town, she has private parking at the back of her property, several times members of the public have parked on her private property whilst they go shopping... not dangerous, but very rude if you ask me! I live in a small close by the seafront, airshow day there was members of the public visiting the airshow parked in our visitors bays all day and one or two even parked in numbered bays intended for the residents meaning people could not park in their own close for the day! Again, not dangerous, but out of order none the less. In my book they still deserve a ticket! So it's not always about "dangerous" parking is it."
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