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Car legally parked, lifted by the council, yellow lines painted underneath, put down, and fined

I sh1t you not!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1189191/Workers-lifted-car-painted-yellow-lines--wardens-came-towed-away.html

That doesn't surprise me at all. I lived in a council flat for twenty years and the only thing councils are good at is chasing people for rent money. That's it. After politicians, they have to be the most incompetent and useless organisation I can think of. I was once fined for parking my car in my own parking bay where I lived; even though they checked their records and found that I was entitled to park there, they still fined me for not having my permit displayed (it had fallen down). Councils are scum and I hate them.

Not so long ago I actually saw a traffic warden hide behind a tree until the ticket expired...

I once left my car without a tax disk for one day...I'm surprised that the vultures didn't swoop down on me then!

I had paid my tax, but the disk still hadn't arrived - I needed my car to travel to my 6th form at the time (a few years ago now), so I couldn;t really not drive it...

I just know though if they had seen it, I would have been done for it. It isn't enough to pay car tax...oh no...even if I had appealed they would have told me where to go!

It's always worth appealing fines if you feel you've done nothing wrong. I got a fine in the post once for supposedly stopping my car in a box junction (which I genuinely don't remember doing). Turns out their "photographic evidence" was a close-up shot of my licence plate. Nothing else; just my rear licence plate. So I appealed ("Er, what exactly does a photo of my licence plate prove?" and they withdrew the fine. Idiots.

Gotta love councils and their incompetance.....

At my old house I used to get parking tickets for parking across my own drop kerb - apparently I was causing an obstruction to any car that wanted to get off my drive!

At my shop customers are forever getting parking tickets while loading or unloading because the council forgot to paint the parking bays back in after resurfacing work.

Useless - the lot of them!

That is a good point made by Replicant but nearly all councils try to put the frighteners on people to get them to back down, even those who are in the right.

An example is parking fines where people are told that the fine will double if not paid within five days but the appeal process can take several weeks. Many people can't afford to take the risk and see their costs rise so pay up, moan about it and forget it.

This country is now all about hitting those who can least afford it the hardest - and targeting the easy. Government stinks!

I now feel justified in called the council t*ssers, given that as the only working person in a highly banded house full of students I cop for the entire tax bill

Farlsborough wrote:I now feel justified in called the council t*ssers, given that as the only working person in a highly banded house full of students I cop for the entire tax bill

You could always..ay...not live there? If you get my drift...no fixed abode...

Although I agree it's wrong it is in the Daily Mail.

Is it common practice for people to remove their batteries when they park?

The whole situation sounds a bit dodgy, perhaps they had been waiting to paint the lines for ages but because of her battery-less car had been unable to proceed with the work. I know recently when a road was repaired where I park they posted leaflets under the wipers to forewarn us.

I just have an innate response to immediately mistrust anything the Mail reports unfortunately.

A_n_t wrote:Is it common practice for people to remove their batteries when they park?

That's an interesting point. It sounds like there may be more to this, such as an on-going conflict.

Mind you, if the battery was left in, we wouldn't expect the council to hot-wire it to move it! It just proves that:

a) It wasn't stolen (which we now know to be true) and
b) The owner was behaving abnormally.

EDIT: And having just read the *full* article I realise I should just shut up It does sound like the council's contractors were being unfair.