Parking Fines
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Garpal Gumnut
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I got a parking fine last week. $58 for parking for 2.5 hours in a 2 hour zone - in the local shopping centre carpark!!! (The Glen in Glen Waverley Melbourne)! Mongrels! How can they justify this? Shopping and lunch could easily take up 2 hours!
Just don't pay it. If everyone stopped paying these fines all at once they would abolish them. Its just another tax. I never pay parking fines.
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Really. How do you get away with it?
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just got a fine from the council $117 for waiting for the kids on the road 10mins before bell time , how Fck up is that how are you suppose to pick up the kids if you don't wait on the road like the rest of the parents, its a pretty quite street and not a busy road, im gonna fight this for a change as i always paid them before will see what happens.
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Are we going in the direction of the poms ?
The interesting bit in this article is that it is an Aussie (Abraham Saliba) who is running this racket.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...mpers-pounced-half-minute-claim-150-fine.html
The interesting bit in this article is that it is an Aussie (Abraham Saliba) who is running this racket.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...mpers-pounced-half-minute-claim-150-fine.html
just got a fine from the council $117 for waiting for the kids on the road 10mins before bell time , how Fck up is that how are you suppose to pick up the kids if you don't wait on the road like the rest of the parents, its a pretty quite street and not a busy road, im gonna fight this for a change as i always paid them before will see what happens.
Likewise, recently I got a $197 fine by a council officer for stopping for about 10 seconds in a no stopping zone while picking up my wife from an urgent doctors visit. They just photograph your number number plate as you have your blinker on and pulling back into traffic.
Told a cop friend of mine about this and his reaction, "low life council employees, police would just motion you on with a warning".
You can't fight it, just paid it, I don't have time for this nonsense, which is what they depend upon.
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just got a fine from the council $117 for waiting for the kids on the road 10mins before bell time , how Fck up is that how are you suppose to pick up the kids if you don't wait on the road like the rest of the parents, its a pretty quite street and not a busy road, im gonna fight this for a change as i always paid them before will see what happens.
YTeh i got a fine for stopping to pick up my gf after work. The **** thing is the parking officer waved me on cause i was waiting in the car i thought "fair enough", then a week later get a fine in the mail so the bastard booked me also!
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Well, I am sure I will get lynched for this, yet apart from some really s****y situations for a few people here, most knew that if they got caught they would get fined, or at least should have known.
I have got a few in the past, paid them, contested them, yet nearly all of them I was completely aware that what I did was breaking the law, and I thought, sod it, it will be fine - to which it wasn’t. My bad luck!
I think much of the parking restrictions are a joke, yet I don’t know how you can complain about something you know you did which was breaking the law. Its not to say that if you cant park in front of a school that you should park 5 miles away and walk them up, sure that’s sounds stupid, yet if there is a parking restriction then don’t park there, find another way.
An area a mate lives in has a school at the front of the estate. Now, for ages - as far as I am aware - there has been no parking either side of the road between 8 and 9am and 2.30 and 3.30pm (think this is right). People still park there, recently the local council decided to go along and fine them. Great!!!
The road is narrow, people live in the estate, and the parking is a serious danger to the kids and oncoming traffic and is a general hazard. The school has sent letters - as I have been lead to believe - to parents and sent them home with the kids and nothing changes.
It’s like all things, not in my backyard. Much of the restrictions don’t make sense, I agree. Yet, when there is a solution people still complain. Take Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane. For years they complained and complained about the parking. People parking across driveways, in the street for hours, causing jams etc., so the council said fine, when games etc are on we will block off the whole area and there will be no parking. However, they did say residents could get an exemption; all you had to do was get a sticker for the car which proved you were a resident. Perfectly reasonable, yet oh no, the residents want the council to be mind readers and know which cars are residents and which aren’t, as having to get a sticker and fill in a form was just to much time. Well … what are you to do?
I have got a few in the past, paid them, contested them, yet nearly all of them I was completely aware that what I did was breaking the law, and I thought, sod it, it will be fine - to which it wasn’t. My bad luck!
I think much of the parking restrictions are a joke, yet I don’t know how you can complain about something you know you did which was breaking the law. Its not to say that if you cant park in front of a school that you should park 5 miles away and walk them up, sure that’s sounds stupid, yet if there is a parking restriction then don’t park there, find another way.
An area a mate lives in has a school at the front of the estate. Now, for ages - as far as I am aware - there has been no parking either side of the road between 8 and 9am and 2.30 and 3.30pm (think this is right). People still park there, recently the local council decided to go along and fine them. Great!!!
The road is narrow, people live in the estate, and the parking is a serious danger to the kids and oncoming traffic and is a general hazard. The school has sent letters - as I have been lead to believe - to parents and sent them home with the kids and nothing changes.
It’s like all things, not in my backyard. Much of the restrictions don’t make sense, I agree. Yet, when there is a solution people still complain. Take Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane. For years they complained and complained about the parking. People parking across driveways, in the street for hours, causing jams etc., so the council said fine, when games etc are on we will block off the whole area and there will be no parking. However, they did say residents could get an exemption; all you had to do was get a sticker for the car which proved you were a resident. Perfectly reasonable, yet oh no, the residents want the council to be mind readers and know which cars are residents and which aren’t, as having to get a sticker and fill in a form was just to much time. Well … what are you to do?
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just got a fine from the council $117 for waiting for the kids on the road 10mins before bell time , how Fck up is that how are you suppose to pick up the kids if you don't wait on the road like the rest of the parents, its a pretty quite street and not a busy road, im gonna fight this for a change as i always paid them before will see what happens.
spoke to Council will keep you posted in the next few weeks.
Well, with an attitude like that, I hope they stop providing phone/internet/mobile/TV/etc to people in the country. It won't bother me, so I don't care. Stuff the people in the country.
If you ever live in a city, you will see how unreasonable parking fines are, and how they are virtually impossible to fight -- you definitely are guilty until proven innocent (which isn't generally possible).
Krakow is a city. I assume he means people ignore parking fines, which leads to...'liberal' parking
Ah, thought he meant the a town in QLD. But I've just had a look and the QLD town is Cracow.
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Yes. Rudd is a Fabian and if emulating all the Stasi tactics of the Labour Party here.
But clamping is only done on private land.
Check this out though:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring...ace-new-fines-under-new-Government-curbs.html
Garpal Gumnut
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you guys and gals on this thread sound like paranoid losers. You get a piece of paper on your car or in the post.
It says pay $115 or some other ridiculously small number.
You panic, whinge and carry on and pay it.
Just don't pay it.
Their computer systems are crap in the fascist councils.
Often they will forget.
If they take you to court, wear a suit, apologise and promise to pay,
The court records are equally crap.
Unless you do a bank job, it will never show up.
Just relax. I never pay parking fines.
gg
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Perhaps the ultimate answer in heavily built up areas is to limit private parking to designated areas (carparks) and do away with parking meters/inspectors alltogether.
