Wonder if the ticket was for a parking violation, or for owning a purple Rover 100.

hulla wrote:
Wonder if the ticket was for a parking violation, or for owning a purple Rover 100.

With a pink interior...

Having such bad taste in public should be grounds alone for a fine!

Another "Jobsworth" just doing his job.
Was or wasn't the permit on clearly on display.
They will probably win their appeal when they provide the permit, BUT if it was not ON DISPLAY they really don't have a case.

N wrote:
Another "Jobsworth" just doing his job. Was or wasn't the permit on clearly on display. They will probably win their appeal when they provide the permit, BUT if it was not ON DISPLAY they really don't have a case.

Let's hope the council apply a little common sense and realise the owner's were not taking the p!ss but were just unlucky with the adhesive.

I will be surprised if they lose the appeal

If it had falled into the footwell, then it probably wasn't clearly visible. The parking enforcement officer shouldn't have to nosey into every car to view a permit, otherwise people will attack them for wanting to see what's worth nicking in the car.

Simple solution is to put it low down on the inside of the windscreen, so if it falls off, it falls face up on the dashboard and remains clearly visible.

I hope they lose the appeal.

Anon wrote:
If it had falled into the footwell, then it probably wasn't clearly visible. The parking enforcement officer shouldn't have to nosey into every car to view a permit, otherwise people will attack them for wanting to see what's worth nicking in the car. Simple solution is to put it low down on the inside of the windscreen, so if it falls off, it falls face up on the dashboard and remains clearly visible. I hope they lose the appeal.

Exactly my sentiments, whatever next "my permit was in my glovebox" etc etc. After this comment;

The wardens must have realised that the distinctive small purple car had been parked in the same location without moving for seven days.

she's lucky it wasn't towed away!

That all said, isn't it about time the wardens technology checked to see if the car had a permit prior to issuing a ticket?

Why is this news? Same thing happened to me a few years back, but I didn't go bleating to the papers about it, I just appealed. Common sense prevailed and the fine was overturned.

Yes why is this news? The Echo ran the same story a few weeks ago.

Sarah wrote:
Yes why is this news? The Echo ran the same story a few weeks ago.

Really? Where?

We went to Market Harborough to celebrate our third wedding anniversary

.........oh how the other half live eh ! Top holiday destination.

Who hasn't tried the old 'it msut have slipped off the window / dashboard' trick when we've been clobbered for a ticket ? The rules are quite clear that the permit or ticket needs to be clearly displayed.

Rules are rules, you cannot just take peoples word every time - even if they do holiday in exotic climes !

It is the second timewithin a few weeks that Eastleigh Council has been embroiled in a row over parking. Last week the Daily Echo revealed that a Chandler's Ford resident was having to pay the price for living in the wrong part of his street.

David Keyworth was given a penalty ticket for parking two wheels of his car on the verge outside his home in Bodycoats Road.

A council ban on parking on verges only applied to his particular section of the road. If he had driven a few hundred yards down the road he could have parked on the vergewithout fear of getting a ticket. He's also appealing against the penalty.


I was only a couple of hundred yards off the motorway as I did 70mph in a 20mph zone, perhaps I will appeal too.
You were in the wrong and you were caught and punished. Get a life.

Traffic warden does job

This is not a news worthy story, certainly not for the second time

hulla wrote:
Wonder if the ticket was for a parking violation, or for owning a purple Rover 100.

Why is only 'closet' traffic wardens are posting comments in support of Earn Bags of Cash henchmen. Sorry I mean Eastleigh Borough Council. Even when non EBC photographic evidence is submitted the jobsworths state it is not admissable.

Anyone read 1984 recently?

What is Billy Mitchell doing in Eastleigh driving a Rover 100

George wrote:
Why is this news? Same thing happened to me a few years back, but I didn't go bleating to the papers about it, I just appealed. Common sense prevailed and the fine was overturned.

I didnt know that George is a Freemason



;o)

L J Harvey wrote:

hulla wrote: Wonder if the ticket was for a parking violation, or for owning a purple Rover 100.

Why is only 'closet' traffic wardens are posting comments in support of Earn Bags of Cash henchmen. Sorry I mean Eastleigh Borough Council. Even when non EBC photographic evidence is submitted the jobsworths state it is not admissable. Anyone read 1984 recently?

Yes I have although I must confess I prefer down and out in Paris and London

King Mush wrote:

George wrote:
Why is this news? Same thing happened to me a few years back, but I didn\'t go bleating to the papers about it, I just appealed. Common sense prevailed and the fine was overturned.

I didnt know that George is a Freemason



;o)

And how old's your mother, KM?? :-)

My wife parked her distinctive purple coloured Rover 100 opposite our house at about 5.30pm on Thursday 24th April, where it remained while we had 7 days holiday away from Eastleigh. We arrived back home at 6.30pm on Thursday 1st May.

When it was parked facing south, exposed to the sun, rain and all other elements, on that Thursday evening the obligatory Parking permit was on display on the windscreen, just above the windscreen wipers and adjacent to the “tax disc”.

It would appear that the Permit remained fixed to the ‘screen for all of Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday until the adhesive suction gave up on the permit holder sometime on Wednesday 30th April (The adhesive failure was probably due to the unusually high daytime temperature). The permit and holder fell into the passenger side footwell of the car, landing face up and quite clearly visible. It did not land on the dashboard, as this area in a Rover 100 is very narrow

Now we are quite proud that one of our neighbours took the time to point this out to the warden who issued the parking ticket only for the warden to look disdainfully into the footwell, shrug their shoulder and amble off in the direction of the Swan Centre.

Now am I probably being a little too assumptive or naïve, but wouldn’t any normal person do the following:

1. Recognise a distinctive small purple car with pink interior that had been parked in the same location, without moving, for 7 days
2. Realise that as it was facing due south that the disc had fallen off
3. Take a closer look into the inside of the car
4. Look even closer when it had been pointed out to the by a concerned neighbour
5. Then cancel the ticket and advise their colleagues of the problem
6. Check on the Council database that a permit had actually been issued for the vehicle

I hope this clarifies the issue with some of the contributors to this website. As for the choice of holiday - we hired a narrow boat to explore the Grand Union Canal. I don't pass comment on where others choose to spend their holiday so please refrain from commenting on mine.
As for the other defamatory comments - go back to your ponds, pondlife

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But John R, you were parked without a permit clearly displayed on your windscreen, as this was a violation you have been punished the rest is irrelevant.
You are going to appeal and yet may win.
Bit pathetic to make such a song a dance really isn't it?

N wrote:
But John R, you were parked without a permit clearly displayed on your windscreen, as this was a violation you have been punished the rest is irrelevant.
You are going to appeal and yet may win.
Bit pathetic to make such a song a dance really isn't it?

No we dont want to do anything sensible here, we prefer to throw our toys out of the pram and stamp our feet!

John R wrote:
My wife parked her distinctive purple coloured Rover 100 opposite our house at about 5.30pm on Thursday 24th April, where it remained while we had 7 days holiday away from Eastleigh. We arrived back home at 6.30pm on Thursday 1st May. When it was parked facing south, exposed to the sun, rain and all other elements, on that Thursday evening the obligatory Parking permit was on display on the windscreen, just above the windscreen wipers and adjacent to the “tax disc”. It would appear that the Permit remained fixed to the ‘screen for all of Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday until the adhesive suction gave up on the permit holder sometime on Wednesday 30th April (The adhesive failure was probably due to the unusually high daytime temperature). The permit and holder fell into the passenger side footwell of the car, landing face up and quite clearly visible. It did not land on the dashboard, as this area in a Rover 100 is very narrow Now we are quite proud that one of our neighbours took the time to point this out to the warden who issued the parking ticket only for the warden to look disdainfully into the footwell, shrug their shoulder and amble off in the direction of the Swan Centre. Now am I probably being a little too assumptive or naïve, but wouldn’t any normal person do the following: 1. Recognise a distinctive small purple car with pink interior that had been parked in the same location, without moving, for 7 days 2. Realise that as it was facing due south that the disc had fallen off 3. Take a closer look into the inside of the car 4. Look even closer when it had been pointed out to the by a concerned neighbour 5. Then cancel the ticket and advise their colleagues of the problem 6. Check on the Council database that a permit had actually been issued for the vehicle I hope this clarifies the issue with some of the contributors to this website. As for the choice of holiday - we hired a narrow boat to explore the Grand Union Canal. I don't pass comment on where others choose to spend their holiday so please refrain from commenting on mine. As for the other defamatory comments - go back to your ponds, pondlife

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An excuse for getting a ticket,and not wanting to pay, but no excuse for having a purple Rover 100.

Like everyone else, admit it, deal with it and pay it. You were in the wrong. It wasn't on the windscreen as it states it should be. Mine has never fallen off

I have just come out of my pond to make comment on this ridiculous article in the paper .... For starters im confused as to why on earth u would park a purple Rover 100 with Pink interior in a public place anyway... that in itself deserves a parking ticket or 2!!
The excuse of the adhesive melting just doesnt STICK with me either so maybe u should check these things more carefully before swanning off on a narrow boat down a rubbish canal!!
Enough said i think!!!

John R wrote:
My wife parked her distinctive purple coloured Rover 100 opposite our house at about 5.30pm on Thursday 24th April, where it remained while we had 7 days holiday away from Eastleigh. We arrived back home at 6.30pm on Thursday 1st May. When it was parked facing south, exposed to the sun, rain and all other elements, on that Thursday evening the obligatory Parking permit was on display on the windscreen, just above the windscreen wipers and adjacent to the “tax disc”. It would appear that the Permit remained fixed to the ‘screen for all of Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday until the adhesive suction gave up on the permit holder sometime on Wednesday 30th April (The adhesive failure was probably due to the unusually high daytime temperature). The permit and holder fell into the passenger side footwell of the car, landing face up and quite clearly visible. It did not land on the dashboard, as this area in a Rover 100 is very narrow Now we are quite proud that one of our neighbours took the time to point this out to the warden who issued the parking ticket only for the warden to look disdainfully into the footwell, shrug their shoulder and amble off in the direction of the Swan Centre. Now am I probably being a little too assumptive or naïve, but wouldn’t any normal person do the following: 1. Recognise a distinctive small purple car with pink interior that had been parked in the same location, without moving, for 7 days 2. Realise that as it was facing due south that the disc had fallen off 3. Take a closer look into the inside of the car 4. Look even closer when it had been pointed out to the by a concerned neighbour 5. Then cancel the ticket and advise their colleagues of the problem 6. Check on the Council database that a permit had actually been issued for the vehicle I hope this clarifies the issue with some of the contributors to this website. As for the choice of holiday - we hired a narrow boat to explore the Grand Union Canal. I don't pass comment on where others choose to spend their holiday so please refrain from commenting on mine. As for the other defamatory comments - go back to your ponds, pondlife

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John R you look really angry in that photo. Or should i say Billy Mitchell and Vera Duckworth lol

looking at the picture Mr R, either you have a really tall Rover or you are a very short man...which is it?

Your lucky i'm not the judge on your claim as i would double your fine. What an idiot you are and your excuses are criminal. I cannot recall it being hot in april. In fact the hottest its been this year is 26c which is not an 'unusally high day time temp'. Except the fine and pay it. Actually don't pay the fine so your car can be impounded.

OMG. These two need shooting. The disc was not on the windscreen where it was supposed to be. Why is it that people have to try and get some sort of compenstation for everything that happens to them. PAY UP AND SHUT UP.

Whats the betting John is now the same colour as his car.
And to think he expected some sympathy.
Pay up and shut up.

Great minds think alike Jody!!!

DISTINCTIVE PURPLE ROVER 100,I WOULD SO NOT BE SHOUTING ABOUT THAT!!!!!! YOU SHOULD BE HUNG DRAWN AND QUARTERED AT THE VERY LEAST FOR OWNING SUCH A HEAP OF JUNK. I THINK THE COUNCIL SHOULD PAY YOU TO HAVE IT PARKED ON THEIR STREET!!!!! GET A LIFE, LOSERS

We have permits where we live and not once has mine come unstuck. John and Jacky should be grateful that they only got two tickets whilst on holiday in the Bahamas.....oh sorry Market Harborough!!!! And when exactly was it hot in April, I remember rain, snow and a lot of wind, which is what these two have a lot of! Be a law abiding citizen and pay your fines, that you incurred,for not displaying your disc in the windscreen. Why are you trying to blame the officer or council for that matter for something that is your responsibility, no one eles, YOURS.

These two should be ashamed. I agree with the general public. It is your responsibility to display the disc, why are you trying to get out of paying? The officer was doing his job. No disc displayed in a zoned parking area = FINE. No wonder our society is rapidly going down hill, when people expect to be compensated or let off for everything that doesn't quite go their way. I suggest that John and Jacky Roche just pay up and stop moaning.

Fred Dinage ♥ Billy Mitchell

Graham wrote:
These two should be ashamed. I agree with the general public. It is your responsibility to display the disc, why are you trying to get out of paying? The officer was doing his job. No disc displayed in a zoned parking area = FINE. No wonder our society is rapidly going down hill, when people expect to be compensated or let off for everything that doesn't quite go their way. I suggest that John and Jacky Roche just pay up and stop moaning.

NAIL ON HEAD!

they will then moan about the courts etc not having anytime to sort out real problems, of course they wont if people like billy and fred keep doing stuff like this!

John R wrote:
My wife parked her distinctive purple coloured Rover 100 opposite our house at about 5.30pm on Thursday 24th April, where it remained while we had 7 days holiday away from Eastleigh. We arrived back home at 6.30pm on Thursday 1st May.

When it was parked facing south, exposed to the sun, rain and all other elements, on that Thursday evening the obligatory Parking permit was on display on the windscreen, just above the windscreen wipers and adjacent to the “tax disc”.

It would appear that the Permit remained fixed to the ‘screen for all of Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday until the adhesive suction gave up on the permit holder sometime on Wednesday 30th April (The adhesive failure was probably due to the unusually high daytime temperature). The permit and holder fell into the passenger side footwell of the car, landing face up and quite clearly visible. It did not land on the dashboard, as this area in a Rover 100 is very narrow

Now we are quite proud that one of our neighbours took the time to point this out to the warden who issued the parking ticket only for the warden to look disdainfully into the footwell, shrug their shoulder and amble off in the direction of the Swan Centre.

Now am I probably being a little too assumptive or naïve, but wouldn’t any normal person do the following:

1. Recognise a distinctive small purple car with pink interior that had been parked in the same location, without moving, for 7 days
2. Realise that as it was facing due south that the disc had fallen off
3. Take a closer look into the inside of the car
4. Look even closer when it had been pointed out to the by a concerned neighbour
5. Then cancel the ticket and advise their colleagues of the problem
6. Check on the Council database that a permit had actually been issued for the vehicle

I hope this clarifies the issue with some of the contributors to this website. As for the choice of holiday - we hired a narrow boat to explore the Grand Union Canal. I don\'t pass comment on where others choose to spend their holiday so please refrain from commenting on mine.
As for the other defamatory comments - go back to your ponds, pondlife

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You have to question the wisdom of insulting a bunch of strangers like that when they know where you live and also know what your very distinctive car is parked

As soon as you decided to go public with this "story" and get yourselves in the papers, you became fair game for merciless mocking

paul b wrote:
Fred Dinage ♥ Billy Mitchell

It clearly states, right below the text area you type in, that HTML will be ignored, you plum

Is that his mum?

Dave wrote:
I have just come out of my pond to make comment on this ridiculous article in the paper .... For starters im confused as to why on earth u would park a purple Rover 100 with Pink interior in a public place anyway... that in itself deserves a parking ticket or 2!! The excuse of the adhesive melting just doesnt STICK with me either so maybe u should check these things more carefully before swanning off on a narrow boat down a rubbish canal!! Enough said i think!!!

.... whether Dave and all the other clever 'smart arses' posting absurd comments live or have ever lived in an area covered by residential parking schemes? Parking permits do come off in the heat - I know it's happened to me and even my magnetic permit holder has let me down once. The point is the traffic wardens in Eastleigh now no longer have any common sense as to whether leaniency should be given and this is because they have quotas to meet!! If they want to keep their jobs they have to issue as many tickets as possible. Traffic wardens do eventually get to know which cars belong to residents and a simple check on EBC's database would have solved this problem and perhaps a warning notice could be issued to ensure permits are securely fixed to the windscreen. But there again, this would lose EBC much needed revenue from the poor motorist.

Good luck with your appeal John and Jacky!

As for the other defamatory comments - go back to your ponds, pondlife

Well said. Good luck with the appeal John.

paul the moron wrote:

paul b wrote:
Fred Dinage ♥ Billy Mitchell

It clearly states, right below the text area you type in, that HTML will be ignored, you plum

Thats not HTML, its ASCII

I can not help it if the Echos parsers don't understand it

Just Wondering..... wrote:

Dave wrote: I have just come out of my pond to make comment on this ridiculous article in the paper .... For starters im confused as to why on earth u would park a purple Rover 100 with Pink interior in a public place anyway... that in itself deserves a parking ticket or 2!! The excuse of the adhesive melting just doesnt STICK with me either so maybe u should check these things more carefully before swanning off on a narrow boat down a rubbish canal!! Enough said i think!!!

.... whether Dave and all the other clever \'smart arses\' posting absurd comments live or have ever lived in an area covered by residential parking schemes? Parking permits do come off in the heat - I know it\'s happened to me and even my magnetic permit holder has let me down once. The point is the traffic wardens in Eastleigh now no longer have any common sense as to whether leaniency should be given and this is because they have quotas to meet!! If they want to keep their jobs they have to issue as many tickets as possible. Traffic wardens do eventually get to know which cars belong to residents and a simple check on EBC\'s database would have solved this problem and perhaps a warning notice could be issued to ensure permits are securely fixed to the windscreen. But there again, this would lose EBC much needed revenue from the poor motorist. Good luck with your appeal John and Jacky!

I am glad there is at least one person who can sensibly comment on the lack of commonsense being applied by "parking enforcement operatives" who seem not to be able to use, or who are directed by their employer not to use, reasonable judgement in their target-driven jobs.

Its just as well most of the posters on here don't have similar jobs, as they seem more inclined to enforce every letter of every regulation than they are to follow the rules of this web site to be treat other people with respect and not post anything that is abusive!

What a pair of whinging OLD sods. Lets be honest the law is the law, and I agree that no warden should have to go peeking into cars looking for tickets, if its not clearly on display then they deserve the fine.

Anyway, with such a bright pink interior I doubt the warden wanted to ruin his eye sight !!!

paul b wrote:

paul the moron wrote:

paul b wrote:
Fred Dinage ♥ Billy Mitchell

It clearly states, right below the text area you type in, that HTML will be ignored, you plum

Thats not HTML, its ASCII

I can not help it if the Echos parsers don't understand it

No it isn't. It's a Unicode character encoded in HTML

Good luck with the appeal- these things happen.

George wrote:

King Mush wrote:

George wrote: Why is this news? Same thing happened to me a few years back, but I didn\'t go bleating to the papers about it, I just appealed. Common sense prevailed and the fine was overturned.

I didnt know that George is a Freemason ;o)

And how old's your mother, KM?? :-)

It's a secret dear 'Brother'

I'll tell you at the next Lodge meeting