[jane]

Well, i went to spend a huge amount of money on school shoes this evening (very late i know the kids start back tommorow and i went into Clarks 15 mins before they shut!) and came back to my car to find i had been given a parking ticket for parking in a disabled bay an failing to display a valid disabled badge. I had my badge on my dashboard hte same as i lways do - not impressed. I will be complaining in the morning, have taken photos but don't know how i stand regards proof. Anyone got any experience of this.

[dom]

jane, on 01 September 2010 - 06:37 PM, said:

Well, i went to spend a huge amount of money on school shoes this evening (very late i know the kids start back tommorow and i went into Clarks 15 mins before they shut!) and came back to my car to find i had been given a parking ticket for parking in a disabled bay an failing to display a valid disabled badge. I had my badge on my dashboard hte same as i lways do - not impressed. I will be complaining in the morning, have taken photos but don't know how i stand regards proof. Anyone got any experience of this.

yes should be easy? just say it was on dash they should ask you to give them the number on the badge and then let you off,with a caution to display it in view

[LeahC]

Yes write in stating that you had your badge on display and send the image and they should let you off xx I've done it with permit parking outside my home and with the disabled bay thing where I had both a permit for the first and my badge for the second occasion.

[dangerousdave]

Don't expect a understanding little hitler
Be prepared to take it all the way to the appeals officer who should bin it

[Tinbasher]

dangerousdave, on 02 September 2010 - 10:09 AM, said:

Don't expect a understanding little hitler
Be prepared to take it all the way to the appeals officer who should bin it

Was it you badge or your clock that was missing? I have been caught out on the clock more than once.

[kim wright]

i have been clamped and had a parking ticket for not displaying my badge .
i appealed on the parking ticket and did not have to pay the fine.
When i showed the "clampers " my blue badge they also removed it with out a charge .

[Trinity]

Traffic wardens always seem to take there own photos these days to "prove" the violation. Maybe you could just ask that they review the pictures they took

[dom]

Trinity, on 02 September 2010 - 06:12 PM, said:

Traffic wardens always seem to take there own photos these days to "prove" the violation. Maybe you could just ask that they review the pictures they took

yes apparently there is a new thing [or old?] whereby you can punch your code number in the pc and see a pic of your car which the warden took! i did it once and saw my car on their website.
maybe you could do that,worse comes to the worse say it must've slipped off the dash on the floor and give a bog SORRY

[dangerousdave]

I don't pay parking tickets
I don't display a discriminating clock
I always appeal to the adjudicator
I havn't lost

[LeahC]

Dave is so Dangerous lol xx

[dangerousdave]

i'm a kitten realy - just don't provoke me - or i'll roar

[FROG]

In my city they let you off without a problem. However, for the past several years they charge a processing of $20.00. I guess they figure somehow that it is all your fault and so they will get something out of you for putting them through the exercise of first writing the ticket and then having to reverse it on the computer. Government is pretty hard-up for money around these parts I reckon.

[dangerousdave]

then why don't you sue them for illeagily ticketing you

[edlee]

But Dave,,, if the law says you have to properly display the placard,, and you don't. They have properly ticketed you. The fact they let you off is a courtesy. If you do it too often,, they may stop being courteous.

I just leave mine swinging,,,, from the mirror,,, that way I can't forget. What's with the clock thing? Are you only allowed to park for a certain period of time?
ed

[graphic]

edlee, on 04 September 2010 - 05:44 AM, said:

What's with the clock thing? Are you only allowed to park for a certain period of time?
ed

Ed, the clock is a little cardboard disk that is marked from one to twelve. In certain restricted areas, badge holders are allowed to park for a limited time. We set the 'clock' to show what time we parked so the traffic wardens can see how long we've been parked. If we go over the allowed time we get a parking ticket. I think it's £30 if we pay within so many days and £60 if we don't.
Clive
My link

[Edinburgh Colin]

Those in the UK remember it's not the picture side that needs to show but the side with your registration number.

[dangerousdave]

Just remember - our bodies don't work in time with a clock
Mine certainly doesn't
I can be out and about and - my bowels are movin
Or wheelchair has a mechanical failure
Or not very good today - very slow
meet friends and talk
I can go on and on about this silly restriction that only applies to those in England and Wales
I don't know of any other country in my travels that foolishly thinks disabled people can live non disabled lives

So everybody out there - Do you have to display a time clock of any discription

[cathie]

no time clock, however many of the parking spots in town have the same time limit as regular spots (1 or 2 hours) and are metered parking the same rate or higher than regular spots and also are the same size. However if I choose to park in a regular spot I can park twice as long so I use a spot that has extra space on the driver's side (such as having a tree near the foot path or the end of the row) so I can get my chair in and out by myself.

[graphic]

Edinburgh Colin, on 04 September 2010 - 10:06 AM, said:

Those in the UK remember it's not the picture side that needs to show but the side with your registration number.

I was done for this but after pleading ignorance, remorse and insanity was let off with a slapped wrist.

[knightrider]

I've never used the clock thing, i think it's pointless and also looks crap lol. I've had a fine, it was 2years ago, i was seeing this chick and we were away for the weekend and while we were out i decided to park in this muti-storey carpark, when we came back after something to eat n a bit of shopping i had a ticket, had to pay £70, yes 70 feckin pounds, turns out it wasn't on display properly. I was pissed off bigtime!

[The Black Sheep]

I've never had a ticket for parking in a handicap spot, but when I was in college, my tag was stolen from my dash board. Serves me right for not locking my doors. People sure are desperate for good parking spots, I guess. I've gotten the handicap plates since then and, at that same school got a parking ticket for parking in the teacher's lot. The students lot (event their handicap spots) are about a mile away from the campus, but when I brought the issue up, they immediately understood why I was there... 12 inches of snow, far away parking, wheelchair - ticket was excused and I can now park in the teacher's lot!

[Kodie]

I was at the hospital visiting my dad and hospital security wrote me one. I guess they were too lazy to walk around and look at my license plate. Needless to say, they wasted their paper..haven't paid it yet and don't plan on it. I just had my sister take it off the windshield wiper and throw it in the trash.

[bumerry]

My university FINALLY started allowing students to use any parking spot if the (scarce!)accessible spots are full. I used to argue tickets by pointing out that I don't magically become less disabled when the two spots for a seven story building full of 50 person classrooms are already taken.

Because even if it were incremental like some sort of automotive chemotherapy, I'd be dancing in the streets already and living car-less like I used to do.