I'm a terrible bastard
when it comes to this stuff, and I just won't let things go if I think I've been "wronged" by "authority".

I had a parking ticket last year for parking on double yellows - to be fair, the double yellows were very, very faint and along the same stretch of road there were cars parked all along, so I figured that it must be ok to park there.
I appealed the ticket on the grounds that I simply couldn't have seen the lines when I parked their (at night) and took photos of the lines at night to show how faint they looked.
This all fell on deaf ears, so I appealed again, this time on the grounds that there were no t-bars at either end of the lines and that the road lead onto a private road - so a no-through-road, and thus very little traffic to worry about keeping the flow of.
Again, this was refused.

By then, this was getting on my goat...my heels were dug in firmly, and rather than pay the 35 quid (which would, to be honest, have been the easier option), I was prepared to go to an adjuidicator/court/younameit in order to fight it.
I wrote back, exclaiming the futility of having my appeals read by someone who has a vested interest in my paying the fine, I wrote that the lines were barely visible, I wrote that the amount they fined me was wrong etc....
They sent a Notice To Owner. Which was riddled with errors.
I wrote back, including a copy of their NTO which I'd marked in red pen, showing the errors, legal inaccuracies etc...

I got a letter back saying "No further action will be taken".

In other words, "Oh, FFS! Will you just F*** OFF!"

A year later, it turns out someone else had been nicked along the same road and didn't take too kindly too it - they had even more time on their hands than I did.

The yellow lines have been painted over now - the road in question is actually a private road, and as such the council have no agreement or remit to put lines there at all!

I'm a petty, troublesome little git sometimes!
(dchurch bah, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 16:39, Reply)