Copped A Parking Fine...

[Astro Bear]

Can't stand parking inspectors. I got fined a few weeks back for apparently parking in a taxi zone, except the thing is, I got the fine in the mail, not on my windscreen, is that normal? I was parked on the side of mount alexander road in Ascot Vale on a saturday night at 11pm. I'm 90% sure it wasn't a taxi zone, as the street was full of cars doing the same thing as me. Do you guys think I should go back and check if I was in a taxi zone? It just sounded suss to me, the way I got the infringement in the mail and not on my car. How can they prove I was parked illegally?

Sorry to hijack thread, I wish you the best with your friends fine.

[nice 28]

whats to say that the parking inspector wasn't having an off momnet, wasn't concentrating... and wanted to book the ford parked behind you, but whilst writing out the ticket glanced forward at your car parked infront of it and noted your rego down... once it was printed he realised he f**ked up and then just stuck it on your car?

as once a ticket it printed, it cannot be reversed, f**kup or not.

My point exactly! If he's stupid enough to write the wrong car (when it even says what it is on the rego sticker) then he's stupid enough to stuff it up. He's probably arrogant enough to stick it on the car too (working in stonnington - generalization I know but ehh)

Can't stand parking inspectors. I got fined a few weeks back for apparently parking in a taxi zone, except the thing is, I got the fine in the mail, not on my windscreen, is that normal? I was parked on the side of mount alexander road in Ascot Vale on a saturday night at 11pm. I'm 90% sure it wasn't a taxi zone, as the street was full of cars doing the same thing as me. Do you guys think I should go back and check if I was in a taxi zone? It just sounded suss to me, the way I got the infringement in the mail and not on my car. How can they prove I was parked illegally?

Sorry to hijack thread, I wish you the best with your friends fine.

In a case like that i'm pretty sure they take pictures of where you were parked, with the pole with the sign and the position of your car visible. If not they don't really have a case. Maybe nicely go up there and ask them for the picture if they have one (go check the place first to be on the safe side) and if they so no or we don't have one tell them they don't have a case and where they can stick their fine

Edited June 7, 2009 by nice 28

[jkotsa]

astro boy ask for photographic evidence of your car parked in that area from the council. as the fine should of been on the windscreen of the car and question why it was not placed on the car and that you think the parking inspector has made a mistake. You can then go on to say were nowere near the vicinity of the area on the night and that you have people to back up your aliby. that is what i wrote and got away with it. ps f@#k parking inspectors i know they are doing there job but sometime they just have no sympathy. might as well be robots. this just pisses me off when they send it in the mail the next day.

[krzysiu]

Wont work in Stonnington - they will always ask for written proof... they are the filth of victoria, almost as bad as Bracksie

This is why i cant drive past a ticket inspector without yelling at them. Same with speed camera operators. Full on the horn past them too because they normally just sleep in the cars anyways hahaha

[_Ryan_]

This is why i cant drive past a ticket inspector without yelling at them. Same with speed camera operators. Full on the horn past them too because they normally just sleep in the cars anyways hahaha

I once parked my car infront of one around the corner from my parents old house when i lived with them haha

If i saw one outside my house backed up too a tree i would block it in

[sloutch]

Since we are discussing about parking fines, maybe i should add in my share of parking tickets.

I parked in the carpark ( CARE PARK ) in Docklands. I displayed a valid Parking ticket at 6.34pm for an hour. The ticket says Parking Paid till 7.34pm. Next thing i know, i got an infringement notice timed 6.38pm.

I've yet to write anything to the company. Am going to wait for them to issue me a reminder before i take any action. This is seriously ridiculous.

[R31Nismoid]

Say they got the wrong car make and model... it has to be 100% correct. Fight it.

Umm sorry but no it does not.

Same as a speeding fine or any other infringement. They can be ammended by the issuing body if incorrect

[R31Nismoid]

Can't stand parking inspectors. I got fined a few weeks back for apparently parking in a taxi zone, except the thing is, I got the fine in the mail, not on my windscreen, is that normal? I was parked on the side of mount alexander road in Ascot Vale on a saturday night at 11pm. I'm 90% sure it wasn't a taxi zone, as the street was full of cars doing the same thing as me. Do you guys think I should go back and check if I was in a taxi zone? It just sounded suss to me, the way I got the infringement in the mail and not on my car. How can they prove I was parked illegally?

Sorry to hijack thread, I wish you the best with your friends fine.

They drive around in a car with a camera mounted on the DASH. Taking pic's in known area's with time restrictions.

Then they process them in coming days and mail them.

You can go into Civic Compliance (CBD) to view the photo i believe, although im not sure how the parking fines with photo's work.

Best off to ring council in question but if you know you were parked illegally - not much point

astro boy ask for photographic evidence of your car parked in that area from the council. as the fine should of been on the windscreen of the car and question why it was not placed on the car and that you think the parking inspector has made a mistake. You can then go on to say were nowere near the vicinity of the area on the night and that you have people to back up your aliby. that is what i wrote and got away with it. ps f@#k parking inspectors i know they are doing there job but sometime they just have no sympathy. might as well be robots. this just pisses me off when they send it in the mail the next day.

Read what i posted above.

You would be well... dumber than dumb to attempt a lie with photographic evidence.... note: a lie is NOT an ALIBI.

Nothing wrong with them taking a photo, it's all the rage lately as its a faster rate of income for councils in some area's.

And no, they dont have to leave it on the windscreen. Where did you hear that rubbish?

[RBPOWA-(TJ)]

write a letter mate, give it a shot, either they will change the rego over, or very low chance they will excuse it.

but i got ushered in to one of the multilevel car parks at the docklands... free parking, the little non english speaking guy said at the stand. about 10cars followed.

where i parked was a blank reserved sign, but with no rego written on it. the whole level had this, with some with rego written down, thought i was in the clear.

got out went down to the street asked the guy is it ok if we park anywhere, even in the blank reserved sections his response. ' yes yes anywhere park '.

had dinner got back to the car, parking fine. ' parking in a reserved park '. every car had it, you could heard the F words echoing through the car park.

rang the council about it, they told me to write a letter and do nothing about the fine until we get a response. that was in Jan, and havent heard a thing about it or received a new fine, so i guess all in the good

try it, see what happens.

[Ant97GTR]

I used to park for work in an area controlled by Stonnington Council about 10 years ago. Bastards gave me two fines about a week apart for exceeding the parking time limit by about a minute.

About six weeks later I got my revenge when I was late for work due to an appt. Walking down the same street where I got the fines I found a Stonnington ticket inspectors car illegally parked blocking a driveway so I called to get the car towed pretending to be the home owner

Nothing probably happened but I felt good inside

[RBPOWA-(TJ)]

lol Classic Ant ^^^

[Phatboy]

Since we are discussing about parking fines, maybe i should add in my share of parking tickets.

I parked in the carpark ( CARE PARK ) in Docklands. I displayed a valid Parking ticket at 6.34pm for an hour. The ticket says Parking Paid till 7.34pm. Next thing i know, i got an infringement notice timed 6.38pm.

I've yet to write anything to the company. Am going to wait for them to issue me a reminder before i take any action. This is seriously ridiculous.

LOL I am pretty sure those private carparks like CarePark will not chase you up for not paying fines. They are owned by private companies, not by councils. I think speed/red light camera fines, the domain of VicPol are the ones you only need to worry about as you can't renew your car registration without clearing them I believe. With outstanding council fines that may also be in the worst case scenario. If you have thousands of dollars you may be asked to do community service.

But fines from privately operated carparks probably won't haunt you. It is really not worth them trying to get $60 off you by going to VCAT or whatever. I could be wrong, but that's what I've heard.

[rs73]

I used to work in a company who was working on a project that would enable council to enforce parking laws even better.

the next technological breakthrough is they will implant a device in the ground on each parking bay, which will detect & record the time whenever a vehicle arrives at or leaving the parking bay. If the vehicle hasn't moved over the maximum period allowed in that parking bay, the device sends a signal to the controller, which alerts nearby parking officer, who can immediately locate the offending car and slap the fine in just a matter of seconds.

and don't think of trying to sabotage the device, the device will be buried in a short pipe about 30-60cm under the ground, you won't even know if a parking bay has that device or not.

[Phatboy]

I used to work in a company who was working on a project that would enable council to enforce parking laws even better.

the next technological breakthrough is they will implant a device in the ground on each parking bay, which will detect & record the time whenever a vehicle arrives at or leaving the parking bay. If the vehicle hasn't moved over the maximum period allowed in that parking bay, the device sends a signal to the controller, which alerts nearby parking officer, who can immediately locate the offending car and slap the fine in just a matter of seconds.

and don't think of trying to sabotage the device, the device will be buried in a short pipe about 30-60cm under the ground, you won't even know if a parking bay has that device or not.

Hey I saw that stuff on Beyond2000 like 2 years ago. They were trialling it interstate in Brisbane or somewhere. Not sure if it was the same, but it looked like these round reflective discs embedded in the ground.

[rs73]

yeah, something like that... the battery on that thing last for years.

well I didn't work in the department that deals directly with that project (they had several different departmnets), and I didn't work for that company anymore...

[R31Nismoid]

I used to work in a company who was working on a project that would enable council to enforce parking laws even better.

the next technological breakthrough is they will implant a device in the ground on each parking bay, which will detect & record the time whenever a vehicle arrives at or leaving the parking bay. If the vehicle hasn't moved over the maximum period allowed in that parking bay, the device sends a signal to the controller, which alerts nearby parking officer, who can immediately locate the offending car and slap the fine in just a matter of seconds.

and don't think of trying to sabotage the device, the device will be buried in a short pipe about 30-60cm under the ground, you won't even know if a parking bay has that device or not.

They are already being used/trailed

City of Moonee Valley from memory are well into a trial of the system.

Doesn't surprise me really, they are 2nd in the list to Stonnington. I used to do work down @ the council years ago when i lived out that way and it doesn't surprise me... they model themselves on Stonnington in many ways are they are trying to be 'super inner suburban' like Stonnington IMO

So ye, already running well and truly, i think the suburb of Moonee Ponds, one of the shopping strips has it in that area

[DAS KAMU]

brighten an otherwise anger and hate inducing chat

waaaaaaaaaay back in the day when i was 13 years old in 1991 i was ove at footsgray buying fire works

i saw a parking inspector writing a ticket on a white car - it was out side the shop i was heading to to buy my fireworks

anyway this almost 7 foot nigerian looking chap saw the inspector giving his car a ticket

now this guy had armfulls of shit so all he could do was kick him

this black guy snap kicked the inspector in the face and did not drop anything i was still accross the street and wasnt game to cross over till old mate left

the inspector was lying on the footpath for like 15 minutes and no one did shit to help him

this story is pretty irrelevent but it makes me smile on a cold winters night

[krzysiu]

^love it lol

[HEKT1K]

the good old days eh.. when you could fly kick parking inspectors and buy fireworks all in the one place..

[DAS KAMU]

the good old days eh.. when you could fly kick parking inspectors and buy fireworks all in the one place..

lol you young people these days....................etcetc