Re: Fixed Penalty Notice : Mon Sep 30, 2013 2:35 pm  

post wrote:

So you've never ever broken the speed limit? Even by a few mph?

In Scarborough last year, I parked in a disabled bay, displayed my blue badge, the correct way, with the time (which we didn't have to but always do) and off we went. On return I had a parking ticket and couldn't work out why. Everything was correct with the badge, I was parked in a designated disabled bay but still had a ticket. Anyhoo it turned out I hadn't paid, which is something we always check on the boards as different councils around the country have different rules, but for some reason, we didn't this time.

Did I a) shout and scream and complain that how dare he give me a parking ticket as my blue badge was displayed correctly and all above board? did I b) pay the fine and vow never to just walk away again but always check if I have to pay? or did I c) Moan, complain and whinge on Sin Bin then when told I was in the wrong and shouldn't have done it, start calling everyone holier than thou?? Hmmmmmm difficult one this.

Re: Fixed Penalty Notice : Mon Sep 30, 2013 2:43 pm  

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:

You were busted dropping some litter. Actually, you weren't busted because the guy gave himself up that he didn't have any evidence of you littering. But you tried to be a clever tvvat and mocked him, and busted yourself with it.

So you call your CID friend trying to get out of it. He can't get you out of it.

You think that the cops are going to come to your rescue, because he's a fake, right??? The cops give you short shrift. They're on his side. You're busted.

So you come on here whining about it, trying to see if there's some way out of it. You get no sympathy, you whine about it.

Just a guess here, but I'm thinking you're a scouser, right?

Didn't ring mate to get me out of it, just rang for advice on the issue.

I'm not trying to get out of it I hold my hands up, peeved with the way it was done.
No not a scouser.

Next?

Re: Fixed Penalty Notice : Mon Sep 30, 2013 2:47 pm  

Hull White Star wrote:

In Scarborough last year, I parked in a disabled bay, displayed my blue badge, the correct way, with the time (which we didn't have to but always do) and off we went. On return I had a parking ticket and couldn't work out why. Everything was correct with the badge, I was parked in a designated disabled bay but still had a ticket. Anyhoo it turned out I hadn't paid, which is something we always check on the boards as different councils around the country have different rules, but for some reason, we didn't this time.

Did I a) shout and scream and complain that how dare he give me a parking ticket as my blue badge was displayed correctly and all above board? did I b) pay the fine and vow never to just walk away again but always check if I have to pay? or did I c) Moan, complain and whinge on Sin Bin then when told I was in the wrong and shouldn't have done it, start calling everyone holier than thou?? Hmmmmmm difficult one this.

What about option D - Claim I be holier than thou, everyone who commits a petty crime should be stoned to death and then look down with binoculars for a reply on sinbin from up on my moral high ground whilst sitting on a high horse

Re: Fixed Penalty Notice : Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:19 pm  

I broke the speed limit and I got the opportunity to pay to attend a speed awareness course instead of points and a fine.
Most people on the course were were a bit contrite, they knew they'd done wrong.
But one guy, whose job was delivery driving, kept returning to his favourite moan about how the camera wasn't fair and how you could always argue your case with a copper, for example if you were rushing your wife to the maternity hospital.

When asked if he was rushing his wife to the hospital, he replied that he hadn't.

But he had broken the limit? Yes.
And did he have a valid mitigating reason? No.
Did he stop moaning all day? No.

This thread reminds me of that time.

p.s. I learned quite a bit from that course but I doubt the delivery driver did.

Re: Fixed Penalty Notice : Mon Sep 30, 2013 4:17 pm  

post wrote:

What about option D - Claim I be holier than thou, everyone who commits a petty crime should be stoned to death and then look down with binoculars for a reply on sinbin from up on my moral high ground whilst sitting on a high horse

No one has said you should be stoned to death, you were caught littering, something that lots of people hate, pay your fine and shut up, man up FFS.