Woohoo! First Parking Ticket.

alicrozier · Post by **alicrozier** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:20 pm

I think mine was before the advent of cameras (well at least before traffic wardens started carrying them!).

Skyenet · Post by **Skyenet** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:33 pm

ed wrote:I top tip for you is if the ticket isnt on the car then drive away. There is nothing they can do apart from stand in front of the car and try and stop you.

I believe that tip to be true.

Gary, can't belive on your first full day as a driver you received a parking ticket. Never had one in 35 years of driving. Rarely ever pay for parking either, often free places just a bit further walk away

Probably wasted a few quids worth of petrol over the years looking for legitmate parking though

gorrie · Post by **gorrie** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:44 pm

Thought they normally gave you 10mins over the expiry time?

Only ever had 1 parking ticket in my puff (some time back).... On the razzle on a Friday night in Edinburgh. Parked the car up in George St in a legit space at 7pm (after the restrictions had finished) with the aim of getting up sharp the next morning and picking it up (better than drink driving I thought, although in hindsight I'm not convinced I would have passed a breath test the next morning). Got up sharp, bus in to town... was at the car 5mins after the restrictions started and it had been ticketed !!

Tried to appeal based on the 10min thing and was told that they would have left it 10mins if I had a ticket displayed which had expired... but as I had no ticket displayed (because I parked up after the restrictions) and I was in a space... I was gubbed.

Is that 10mins just an unwritten rule then?

Post by ed » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:01 pm

Nah i think its officially five and they are not allowed to hang around a car thats nearly finished!

MacK · Post by **MacK** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:24 pm

I think you are allowed 10 mins on a yellow line, but in a space you need a ticket.

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:49 pm

EliseR wrote:
BiggestNizzy wrote:If it's just the 1 ticket it's not economical to chase you as far as court
What are the points potential of not paying?

G.

no ponts it's the council that deal with it not the police. I know a person who's job is parking in the ayrshire area no names don't want to get him in any trouble but thats what he told me.

steve_weegie · Post by **steve_weegie** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:56 pm

yup, parking tickets from blue meanies are a council job & not a criminal offence - if you dont pay they've got to take you to court (small claims??) & get the cash. Proper traffic warden ones are different & they'll be marked as a police parking ticket. If you dont pay those ones, you're in trouble!

Post by ed » Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:16 pm

Yeah they wait 5 minutes and then get you!

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:37 pm

they wait 5mins I had to park outside 1st edition in kilmarnock (the RBS car park was full) (killie ppl will understand this better) while I popped into the RBS while visiting the mortgage woman, I saw a guy get a ticket, so I ran out to find a warden watching over the car, his happy "tut tut you nearly got a ticket look" changed dramatically when I moved the car 10 yards into the RBS carpark he was not amused

Ha Ha

dezzy · Post by **dezzy** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:08 pm

I've been really late loads of times outside my customer's offices near Charing Cross in Glasgow and always got away with it.

It's usually on rainy days though. Glasgow west end parking wardens always spend their day in the Mitchell library cafe when it's raining.

I think they generally give you 15 minutes. But I've been 45 minutes late a couple of times and came out to find no ticket on the car. Must just be luck. (fingers crossed!)

There was a time when one of the machines outside these offices was not printing properly - you couldn't read the date/time/price on the ticket. So, Mattg let me know he'd been spending 10p a day on parking for about 2 weeks since the stupid council idiots still hadn't fixed the meters (it's usually about £4.80 for the full day if you do 3 x the max of 3 hours). I obviously had to copy him and got a week's worth of parking for 10p per day until they fixed the printer in the meter!

Funniest parking ticket story I heard was the guy I've been working for on customer site. He got two parking fines in one day in the same street!! He bought a ticket, but put it in his pocket and walked into the office without putting it on the car!

He came out later to go out for lunch to find a parking fine on the windscreen. Went out in the car for lunch, came back, and guess what . . . he did the exact same thing!!

Two fines in one day in same place!

He's usually a very intelligent guy!

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:25 am

Worst one I know was my old man, me parked up at the barras's, there where no lines no meters no nothing cars where parked all along the street.

He cam back to find that below the car in front and behind where a set of double yellows and that he was sitting on a piece of repaired road, I told him to appeal but he paid up

jason · Post by **jason** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:05 pm

shooomer wrote:
ed wrote:Nah i think its officially five and they are not allowed to hang around a car thats nearly finished!
I got one 5mins after ticket expired on Geo St

I got one <1 mins after expiry at Shandwick Place once. I was back at the car 1 min late and not even a warden in sight.

He/she must have been stood waiting for my time to finish: to have written the ticket, put it on my screen, and vanished

cla5h · Post by **cla5h** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:44 pm

Got one when parking in Shawlands early on a Sunday morning, to grab some brekky.
Didn't realise, but southside meters apply on Sundays too. Wharraloadofhsit.

Also got one in Candleriggs, when I wasn't on a yellow line (they didn't have any at the time, but have painted them now.)
What I didn't realise (call me stupid, but I didn't stop in traffic at the street entrance to read the half a dozen signs that are about ten feet above your head) was that, on that street, you could only park in marked bays. Other non-marked areas were no parking whatsoever.