A F##king Parking Ticket what should i do??

[OLDFORDNUT]

tell council you were over over side of town that day,and car was at home,can you see photo as all council officers carry digital cameras, nowadays,if no photo then you are well on your way to win any argument either in court or in person.
even if you are guilty F%&$ em, bloody revenue raising MAGGOTS

[AU1FORME]

Originally Posted by nicholas

tell council you were over over side of town that day,and car was at home,can you see photo as all council officers carry digital cameras, nowadays,if no photo then you are well on your way to win any argument either in court or in person.
even if you are guilty F%&$ em, bloody revenue raising MAGGOTS

: Come on, I dont like paying fines either and have paid many.

But think about it, "IF" he is guilty then he was parked in an area that he should not have been parked in. We all know what the penalty is , We all know if we speed and get caught we get fined, We all know if we do something that is against the law it has consequences.

You see this all the time someone does something that they know is wrong and they get caught, then all of a sudden it is someone elses fault.

"TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS" :

If you can prove that you were not there, via reciepts from fuel dockets or whatever, then fight it.

They do not always put them on windscreens due to loss, people saying it wasn't there, etc.

good luck...

[Donut Queen]

Are you really sure your car wasn't in a no-standing zone though? Its possibly to park somewhere and miss a sign or not realise you're in the wrong place. If you were in that city that day it seems a bit of a coincidence (I presume you don't live there)? Sure if you weren't there then don't pay it but if there was any doubt it my mind that I might be guilty then I'd pay it.

[Phillo62]

Ask them for photos.

[TadKa]

yeah get off it. even if you are guilty. if everyone used there right to go to court for parking and speeding tickets they wouldn't raise so much revenue and the quick buck wouldnt be as attractive to them. On a different story my last speeding ticket I got off completely because the idiots put the wrong date on it. Check everything!

[4.9 EF Futura]

Letter? Correspondence by writing is terribly slow.. and the due date for the fine may lapse whilst everyone is drafting letters.

Give them a call (council i assume?) and find out the process for disputing a parking fine issued by mail...

Heck if you werent there, you dont deserve a fine do you? It appears a lot of members here assume guilty until proven otherwise. I note you have not acknowledged any guilt in this thread thus far... Its your right to dispute it.

Evidence via receipts etc is a good idea incase push comes to shove... might pay to start collecting your thoughts and your evidence whilst the beurocratic wheels are turning.

$100 is brutal for a parking fine.

[Mack 6]

I recently copped a ticket because after getting to the gf's place at 2am, there was no parks left, so I parked on the grass off the side of the road (there are idiot drivers around and cars on the road had been sideswiped in the past). Moved it about 11 the next morning. I got a ticket 2 weeks later saying i was caught at 10am parking on the strip. I'm tempted to tell thm I was washing the car and didn't want to do it on the concrete driveway. Is that plausable? I'm guessing some tool just drove past and noted my rego for monday morning

[Smoke Pursuit]

Pay it.

I got a $50 fine for parking in an area where your not allowed to park on the street for more then 2 hours (coz of an AFL game). I did not know as there was no signage near my vehicle or anywhere in that partcular street, but i still paid it. I could have went and had a fight with the council but at the end of the day time is money and somethings are just easier done with.

In your case if you have half a day to waste in court along with telling lies then thats your problem, you were obviously doing the wrong thing so cop it on the chin and get on with life.

[AUXRVIII]

105 bucks, thats almost a tank of premium in a Territory. Struth.

[loxxr6]

Yes this is digging up an old thread, but for the fact that I'm now up for a total of $250 for parking in the "wrong" area, I feel I have to vent.

For parking on driver ave in Moore Park (next to fox studios etc) in a marked parking area on a public holiday I scored :

1 - $75 - park after meter expired (the meters were covered up)
2 - $175 - park vehicle on trust land in contravention of blah blah something else.

For god's sake it was on a public holiday on a road that definately wasn't even busy....and if was trust land why the hell were parking spaces there. Stupid geigh parking inspectors.

If I just got stung for the first fine I'd be almost ok with it but to get done TWICE for two different fines is ed....oh and to make it worse they didn't even put the first fine on my car....they mailed it and the first notice i get is the reminder for it. Like thanks.....

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by loxxr6

Yes this is digging up an old thread, but for the fact that I'm now up for a total of $250 for parking in the "wrong" area, I feel I have to vent.

This is a little like the Coach driver in Syd that recently got booked for stopping and unloading schoolkids in a Bus zone. The ticket read 'Parking a Coach in a Bus zone" Obviously the parking 'ranger' thinks a coach is not a bus

And for those that were ranting about GRNKPR to "just pay it". Go back and read the thread properly, he states that neither he or his car was there!. Not that he's annoyed that no ticket was left on the car

[eb91xr6]

Mate they cant make you pay it if there is no proof that there car was there. its your word against there's. i got fined for drinking in a dryzone and had no ID on me So the oficer booked me but i got off it as there was no proof that i was actualy drinking. or that i was there.