Snow-Covered Car Permit Fine Cancelled By Derby Council

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-43002171

Common sense has prevailed at last in Derby it would seem, but it beggars belief that the ticket was issued in the first place !

[naomi24]

//it beggars belief that the ticket was issued in the first place ! //

Not really, Mikey. The number plate was recorded incorrectly. People make mistakes, and the council have acknowledged that.

[mikey4444]

Naomi....a simple sweep of a gloved had over the windscreen would have sorted this out.

[naomi24]

But he plumbed the number into his machine and that told him no permit had been issued for that vehicle so he had no reason to look for one.

[Old_Geezer]

Pity the system didn't return an "invalid entry" response rather than a "no permit issued" response, given the reg couldn't end in a digit.

[mikey4444]

Sounds like far too much common sense for this Council OG !

[naomi24]

Do you know that Council well, Mikey?

[bhg481]

I can't see what all the fuss is about - warden typed in number wrongly and issued ticket; man came back, challenged ticket and it was cancelled. Incidentally, registration numbers can end with a number; old UK ones and many foreign ones, so one ending with a digit could be valid.

[naomi24]

^Precisely.

[Peter Pedant]

// so he had no reason to look for one.//

so yeah Mikey - no reason - like when you go into Hospital with cancer or something and they plug your number in the computer wrong and say - hey you dont have cancer in fact you dont exist ! - normal day on AB I am glad to see.

I think they have quotas to fill - any meter maids out there ? - the day of my spazz card was covered and I got a ticket ( x - aug 2019 ) - and got a snotty letter from the appeal board saying it had been correctly served but wasnt proportionate.

I reckon they have to do 50 - at the end of the shift if it is 48 or 49 they issue a few that they know will be appealed.

[naomi24]

^Oh dear.

[Peter Pedant]

// man came back, challenged ticket and it was cancelled.//

get one and see - you can write your letter about the stupidity of the ticket and they dont reply. You have to wait until it is doubled - fourteen days and then appeal on the right foooooorm ! and to the right people.

so you are now gambling wiv £60- £100 with no guarantee that it will be struck down. This thread is full of posters saying "well it is meant to work like that!" and what if the appeal board reject 100% of appeals "because it is meant to work like that" ?

get one and see

When Manchester was bombed 1997 - we were chucked out by foot and told to leave our cars. When we came back there were tickets all over the place. I said to one smiling meter man - "I asked if I should leave the car here and would it be ticketed and we were told no."

and he said - I didnt give that ticket ....

hey ABers he should have said "it's meant to work like that!"

[vulcan42]

Another example of health and safety rules and technology over ruling common sense. Although a minor problem it took time, and money, to sort out but of course we all know local councils are not interested in unnecessary spending. As mikey says, a quick rub of the windscreen would have saved any hassle.