[headdie]

http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/16032011/36/man-gets-parking-ticket-30-seconds-0.html

[T-LoW]

Well of course that's a mean thing but there simply are places where you aren't allowed to park. Not even for a blink of an eye. The fact that he was so unlucky and this traffic warden came across just a second after he left his car still doesn't authorize him to do that.

Of course it's bureaucracy, it sucks - well but that's the way it is.

[Herra Tohtori]

Well of course that's a mean thing but there simply are places where you aren't allowed to park. Not even for a blink of an eye. The fact that he was so unlucky and this traffic warden came across just a second after he left his car still doesn't authorize him to do that.

Of course it's bureaucracy, it sucks - well but that's the way it is.

Did you read the link?

29-year-old Andrew Oxley had found a space in Exeter Central Train Station car park, and had gone to pay for a ticket. On his return he found a warden writing out a £75 penalty fine.

[T-LoW]

 

I had in mind that he wanted to buy a train ticket - don't ask me why...

[TopAce]

I had in mind that he wanted to buy a train ticket - don't ask me why...

I had this reading too..., but what's the news value in this, regardless? No parking means no parking, not "no parking for longer than X minutes." He should have parked where he was allowed to.

[Ghostavo]

I had in mind that he wanted to buy a train ticket - don't ask me why...

I had this reading too..., but what's the news value in this, regardless? No parking means no parking, not "no parking for longer than X minutes." He should have parked where he was allowed to.

You mean like the car park?

29-year-old Andrew Oxley had found a space in Exeter Central Train Station car park, and had gone to pay for a ticket. On his return he found a warden writing out a £75 penalty fine.

What I read from this is, he parked, went to pay for the parking and returned to find himself being fined for obviously not having the car park ticket in his car.

[newman]

Read the link before posting would be a good policy, overall. The guy parked and then went to pay for the parking. Just in case this isn't clear to some, you can't buy a parking ticket for an illegal parking spot. The fact that he went to pay for the parking means that it was, in fact, a perfectly legal parking spot, provided you pay for it. The issue here is that the guy wasn't given more than a few seconds to pay, which isn't nearly enough time to do it in.
I honestly don't understand how some came to the conclusion that a car park of all places was an illegal parking spot to which he was somehow off buying a parking ticket for.

[Mefustae]

I ****ing hate traffic wardens...

*Jumps in the back of the van to commence beating the semi-conscious traffic warden*

[Kosh]

With budget deficits the way they are the police are mostly a tool for revenue generation.

[headdie]

With budget deficits the way they are the police are mostly a tool for revenue generation.

The article mentions that Premier Parking Solutions is the company handling parking at the station so it is probably adding to the local council or Railtrack's deficit

[Luis Dias]

People here had serious reading comprehension problems. Why do people comment on things before even reading what the hell happened?

I guess we no longer life in the "5 minutes attention span", it's more like "5 seconds".

[BlueFlames]

Language barrier between American and British English, mayhap?

A document displayed to authorize parking in a car park is usually called a "tag" or "pass" on this side of the pond, not a "ticket".  It makes it sound as though he's gone in to pay another parking fine and parked where he shouldn't in the process, making it a habitual problem.

[redsniper]

I ****ing hate traffic wardens...

*Jumps in the back of the van to commence beating the semi-conscious traffic warden*

Is that... Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels?

[karajorma]

Actually the article is ambiguous about whether he was buying a parking ticket or a train ticket. If it's the latter it's his own fault really. If it's the former then he can simply show the ticket in court and show that it's time stamped the exact same minute as the ticket was.

[headdie]

The only issue you have then is that unless there is something like cctv (ok highly possible in this instance) you cant independantly prove when you arrived

[Goober5000]

The only issue you have then is that unless there is something like cctv (ok highly possible in this instance) you cant independantly prove when you arrived

You're putting the burden of proof on him to prove his innocence.  The burden of proof is (or should be) on the ticket writer to prove when he arrived, and the lack of video harms his case, not the defendant's.