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West

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I've got to share this story with you guys,

We were in China Town the other night for dinner, parked our car a long the street slightly just before DRAGON BOAT but it was a no standing zone. Basically we've always park our cars there and so are million others, i always get confuse with the signs situation in the City, you can get 10 different signs on one little street so my theory is, if there is a car that parked there and it didn't have a nice little pink ticket stuck on the windscreen, that mean i can park my car there and i'm safe.

Anyway, after dinner and a short stroll around the block, we were shattered to see a pink notice on our windscreen so we were like damn, serve us right, its $107 for parking in a NO STANDING ZONE. it must have gone up since the last time i ever got a parking fine and it used to be like $40. We drove home feeling a bit sad but then i had a look at the ticket again, i couldn't believe my eyes, they keyed a wrong number. Another word if my number plate was RRM288, they keyed RRM289. I double checked, and checked again, even pulled into the servo jump down and take a closer look at my own number plate and laughing. (the people at the servo must have thought i must have did a hit and run or stole someone's plate)

To this point, i dont' know whether i should feel sorry for the Parking inspector or laugh his head off because i'm ain't going to pay for it, its not my number plate, i dont' care, he must have had a few drink before his shift work or he must have left his reading glass at home. I'm reasonable,i dont' hate parking officers or whatever that they are called, i believe in the saying "you do your crime, you serve your time" I was ready to pay for my fine as i was in the wrong but what can i say, haha :huh: .

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Cool, good for you.

I believe those parking officers are blind in some way. Last ticket I got (parking more than the stated hours) is irrelevant to me, as I have a disabled parking permit on my windscreen, but he/she just did one anyway and wasted my time to a trip to the council.

West Grand Master

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  Al said:
Hey west, if that is your real number plate i'll remove it and use another random plate to state the example. You never know who's reading the forums, especially in the public section :P .

Thanks heaps AL, its my real number plate but it wasn't my car in this case :happy:.

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Haha thats cool. Don't they take digital camera pics when they give a fine? they might look at it again..and re-issue..

Possibly..

I know they do this in our area take photos of cars before issueing ticket so u might still get a fine reissued in the mail or something.

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yeah...the parking fines have gone up to $107, i got one myself the other day in prahran....came back from the docs, and saw one. The parking inspector was waiting for someone to muck up...cos I got it a minute after i parked the car.

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