Parking fines issued after disabled bay painted around car
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Four tickets were placed on the car in south London whilst the owner was away on holiday.

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/127336

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This reminds me of a story from years back where double yellows were being painted - it was either around cars, or they were moving the cars and painting underneath them.

  • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
    96·
    3 months ago

    The title is kinda ragebait here:

    The video shows the contractor photographing the car after the painting is complete to alert the council not to issue a fine.

    However, a parking attendant later placed tickets on the vehicle on separate days, as she was not made aware of the situation.

    Croydon Council “apologised for the confusion” and confirmed that “the tickets were cancelled a week before the video was uploaded to social media”.

    The man decided to share the footage on social media after facing a backlash on Facebook from residents who believed he had parked in the bay knowing he was not supposed to.

    Sounds to me like the real villains are the nosy neighbours looking for something to whine about and making the guy feel like he’d done something wrong. The council only made a minor mistake due to a communication error and rectified it quickly.

    • ryannathans@aussie.zone
      4·
      3 months ago

      You should look up Zoe Bread’s interactions with the councils over there regarding malicious parking infringements

      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
        1·
        20 days ago

        Appealing the PCN after she was fined in August, Bread – who, on social media, hides her real identity behind a slice of bread – highlighted how a “lack of clear, visible signage” at the time she parked, combined with “long-standing prior practice” meant it was “reasonable to assume that parking remained permitted”.

        well I’m sold, what a story hook.

        • ryannathans@aussie.zone
          1·
          20 days ago

          Wait till you get to the point where the council agreed, then realised it meant thousands of fines will get overturned, then disagreed again

  • birne@feddit.org
    12·
    3 months ago

    I am glad that the rules in Germany are different. If you park your car in a public space, you need to check on a regular basis if it is still legally parked. If you leave the country for a while, you either can’t park your car in a public space or you need to ask someone to check your car for you and park it somewhere else, if there is a reason for it.

    • Miaou@jlai.lu
      71·
      3 months ago

      Ah right, forbidding everything that would otherwise require some common sense. Very German indeed.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    American here: What about that paint would tell me it’s a disabled spot? Ours have a metal sign, different colored paint and a wheelchair man in the middle of the spot.

    • Chris@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      There would be a sign up. I don’t think it needs “disabled” text although some do have.

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    I feel like this is something that happens quite frequently here