sgtbob
Active Member
On sunday morning i drove into my local town with my girlfriend to do some christmas shopping. As the 'new' big multi-story car park is always full and would be chokka on a sunday this close to xmas, i decided to park in the old multi-story, which is one of those old, cramped ones, just outside the town centre. It was free parking on sundays and the lower levels where full, so i decided to go up to one of the very top levels, which were quiet and only had one or two cars parked there. Having spent 2 hours the previous day cleaning and polishing my car, (and discovering numerous 'new' scratches etc on the doors - grrr), plus only a month ago having practically one whole side of my car re-sprayed due to scratches, stone chips and rust (on wheels arches), i decided to park slightly across 2 spaces, as i was fed up with inconsiderate obnoxious people hitting the car when getting out of theirs. Using my better judgement, i decided that because it was a sunday (no income to council due to free parking), and the fact that there were hardly any cars parked on the upper level then it would be ok.
To my utter surprise and subsequent disgust i came back and found a sticky parking notice on my windscreen. Upon opening it i found that i had been fined £50 for parking over 2 spaces!!!! I could not believe it! I was fuming and looked around and drove around the whole car park looking for notices that said it was illegal to park over 2 spaces,....and found none! In fact i didnt find any notices/rules at all!
I am so utterly annoyed and am wondering what to do. Im currently draughting a letter to the council, and am in the right mind not to pay it. However i am going into GMP next march, and dont know if this would eb a good decision. I am a law abiding citizen, and have since getting my liscence in 2001 never ever broken the law/got a speeding ticket/parking ticket/been pulled by the police etc. I pay all my road tax/insurance along with all the other extortionate taxes the goverment see fit to burden us with and this just broke the straw etc.....
I know loads of people (with cheaper and more expensive cars), who park across 2 spaces all over the place, in order to keep their pride and joys; of which in most cases cost them an arm and a leg (and a lot of time and effort) to maintain and keep looking nice, only to be fined for trying to pre-empt the people who like to carlessly knock/chip and scratch their cars in car parks etc.
Am i right in what i am saying? Where do you think i stand with my appeal to the council? Or should i just shut up and be a law-abiding 'sheep' and pay the fine??
Thanks, (and sorry for the long post!!)
To my utter surprise and subsequent disgust i came back and found a sticky parking notice on my windscreen. Upon opening it i found that i had been fined £50 for parking over 2 spaces!!!! I could not believe it! I was fuming and looked around and drove around the whole car park looking for notices that said it was illegal to park over 2 spaces,....and found none! In fact i didnt find any notices/rules at all!
I am so utterly annoyed and am wondering what to do. Im currently draughting a letter to the council, and am in the right mind not to pay it. However i am going into GMP next march, and dont know if this would eb a good decision. I am a law abiding citizen, and have since getting my liscence in 2001 never ever broken the law/got a speeding ticket/parking ticket/been pulled by the police etc. I pay all my road tax/insurance along with all the other extortionate taxes the goverment see fit to burden us with and this just broke the straw etc.....
I know loads of people (with cheaper and more expensive cars), who park across 2 spaces all over the place, in order to keep their pride and joys; of which in most cases cost them an arm and a leg (and a lot of time and effort) to maintain and keep looking nice, only to be fined for trying to pre-empt the people who like to carlessly knock/chip and scratch their cars in car parks etc.
Am i right in what i am saying? Where do you think i stand with my appeal to the council? Or should i just shut up and be a law-abiding 'sheep' and pay the fine??
Thanks, (and sorry for the long post!!)