| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Why do people keep breaking the law | |
| Posted by: | Chris Bennett | |
| Date/Time: | 02/07/13 09:43:00 |
| That's your way of looking at it, Asha, but not mine. To be quite honest I find your absolute strictly by the rules attitude depressing. I guess you've never gone 21mph in a 20 zone or over 70 on the motorway either, and never broken any minor rules knowingly in your life. To me this incident is all about proportion, and if you took the time to read earlier posts of mine, my objection is to the way Park Direct operate. I've been driving for over 35 years now and in all that time only once before had a parking ticket - and that was outside my own house soon after the residential parking came into operation and I neglected to put a temporary permit in the window of my car. I challenged that too but, in my view unfairly, lost, so in that case I paid up - to park outside my own house. I state this to demonstrate that I park sensibly, not irresponsibly. There is absolutely no comparison between the parking bays outside Ealing Broadway station and a private house, and its truly ridiculous to draw such an analogy. My circumstances are that I parked in one of the bays at about 21.50 in the evening last December to collect my daughter from a Guides trip. I would've walked but it was pouring with rain. The bays were all but empty and I caused no disruption nor inconvenience and DID NOT LEAVE THE CAR to go shopping etc! Two months later I got through the post a claim for a parking charge with a picture of my car taken by a mobile phone. Since then I understand that Park Direct employ people to stand in front of the station to purposefully do this. My objection is that if they had asked me to move I would've done so, but they didn't, they just view it as a money making business opportunity. I know rigid people like you, Asha, will never see it from my perspective and continue to preach about law breakers like me and, to be honest, I neither have the time nor patience to argue it here beyond this message. |