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[Redruth]

First time I've ridden my new bike to the gymn. Was thinking 'how convenient', easy to get out of the garage, nip to the gymn with rucksack on back, park right outside, an hour and a half later, back out to the bike, some F****** B@RSTARD of a private parking warden has stuck a ticket on my bike. Now admittedly, it was the only bike there and I didn't see the big yellow sign recently erected by the owners of the land, some company in Watford, but since I've been going to that gymn ALL the bikes have parked on this bit of pavement. It's not a thoroughfare. It's a dead end road opposite some fencing, no obstruction whatsoever and I think £100 (£50 if I pay in 14 days) is a bit bloody excessive. The B@RSTARD also said my tax disc wasn't visible. Well, what kind of W@NKER doesn't know where to look for a tax disc on a bike? Clearly visible, brand new not even a speck of dirt on it.

Having just completed Advocacy Skills at college I'm sorely tempted not to pay this one and let them take me to court, at which point I shall argue disproportionality.


Any comments/help here?

Originally posted by Redruth
First time I've ridden my new bike to the gymn. Was thinking 'how convenient', easy to get out of the garage, nip to the gymn with rucksack on back, park right outside, an hour and a half later, back out to the bike, some F****** B@RSTARD of a private parking warden has stuck a ticket on my bike. Now admittedly, it was the only bike there and I didn't see the big yellow sign recently erected by the owners of the land, some company in Watford, but since I've been going to that gymn ALL the bikes have parked on this bit of pavement. It's not a thoroughfare. It's a dead end road opposite some fencing, no obstruction whatsoever and I think £100 (£50 if I pay in 14 days) is a bit bloody excessive. The B@RSTARD also said my tax disc wasn't visible. Well, what kind of W@NKER doesn't know where to look for a tax disc on a bike? Clearly visible, brand new not even a speck of dirt on it.

Having just completed Advocacy Skills at college I'm sorely tempted not to pay this one and let them take me to court, at which point I shall argue disproportionality.


Any comments/help here?

I really shouldn't be laughing should i ???

Still, i know how you can earn a swift bullseye .... !!!!

[andyb]

Originally posted by Redruth
First time I've ridden my new bike to the gymn. Was thinking 'how convenient', easy to get out of the garage, nip to the gymn with rucksack on back, park right outside, an hour and a half later, back out to the bike, some F****** B@RSTARD of a private parking warden has stuck a ticket on my bike. Now admittedly, it was the only bike there and I didn't see the big yellow sign recently erected by the owners of the land, some company in Watford, but since I've been going to that gymn ALL the bikes have parked on this bit of pavement. It's not a thoroughfare. It's a dead end road opposite some fencing, no obstruction whatsoever and I think £100 (£50 if I pay in 14 days) is a bit bloody excessive. The B@RSTARD also said my tax disc wasn't visible. Well, what kind of W@NKER doesn't know where to look for a tax disc on a bike? Clearly visible, brand new not even a speck of dirt on it.

Having just completed Advocacy Skills at college I'm sorely tempted not to pay this one and let them take me to court, at which point I shall argue disproportionality.


Any comments/help here?

Saving money tip No1

Run to the gym.........by the time you get there you dont need it, saving membership fees.

Saving money tip No 2

Also saving on parking fees...........


Call me a thicky but, is disproportionality the reason why you have to go to the gym?

[Edited on 11-11-2005 by andyb]

[Redruth]

Dibble, Andy, big help, thanks.

Actually, I'm not best pleased with the gymn because they must have seen where I parked, let me walk in and didn't warn me. They are going to try to sort it out but I guess, failing that, I'll just have to pay it.

Also, they had a 2 minutes silence at 11 am which everyone stopped working out for. After 5 minutes of silence, still no announcement that the silence was over! Bloody shambles, really.

I go to the gymn partly to get away from the stresses and strains of daily life. Didn't really work today.

Originally posted by Redruth
Dibble, big help, thanks.


I go to the gymn partly to get away from the stresses and strains of daily life. Didn't really work today.

you're welcome .... I can offer some stress relief, and the parkings free ...

[andyb]

WTF has your tax disc got to do with a private traffic warden.

Were you on private land? Thus the parking nob is employed by the gym and associates, and they can do something about the ticket. Or,

Was it a road or highway and one of the local council parking wardens? In which case i think your buggered on the ticket front, but, WTF has your tax disc got to do with them?

[guest1]

Originally posted by Redruth
First time I've ridden my new bike to the gymn. Was thinking 'how convenient', easy to get out of the garage, nip to the gymn with rucksack on back, park right outside, an hour and a half later, back out to the bike, some F****** B@RSTARD of a private parking warden has stuck a ticket on my bike. Now admittedly, it was the only bike there and I didn't see the big yellow sign recently erected by the owners of the land, some company in Watford, but since I've been going to that gymn ALL the bikes have parked on this bit of pavement. It's not a thoroughfare. It's a dead end road opposite some fencing, no obstruction whatsoever and I think £100 (£50 if I pay in 14 days) is a bit bloody excessive. The B@RSTARD also said my tax disc wasn't visible. Well, what kind of W@NKER doesn't know where to look for a tax disc on a bike? Clearly visible, brand new not even a speck of dirt on it.

Having just completed Advocacy Skills at college I'm sorely tempted not to pay this one and let them take me to court, at which point I shall argue disproportionality.


Any comments/help here?

If it was a private parking warden, then it was on private land, then why would he be commenting upon the tax disc?

WRT the fine, sympathy where sympathy is due, so.....(emoticon for tumbleweed across the screen here)

[Felix]

Put that red dress back on. You seem so much happier in that.

[skidlids]

Originally posted by Redruth
The B@RSTARD also said my tax disc wasn't visible. Well, what kind of W@NKER doesn't know where to look for a tax disc on a bike?

The kind that wouldn't dare bend over and check for fear of other victims sticking his tickets where they told him they would like to.

[Redruth]

Parking wardens, private or otherwise, are the scum of the earth. I really resent getting parking tickets on my bike. On my car, fair enough if I've parked illegaly (and I only ever do that unwittingly) but bikes are just NOT in the way of anything if they are considerately parked. I feel like all the land round here is owned by some huge faceless organisation that can afford to pay Tw@ts to give people like me fines that equate to a day's work, and that's on top of the £100 p.m. council tax I pay for F*** all services.

Right, think I'd better go back up the gymn for a 2nd session to get over this morning's trauma.

Felix, you're right. Unfortunately, there isn't another suitable occasion on the horizon for wearing that dress so looks like it'll be staying in the bag, along with my happy face.