On Sat, 3 Feb 2024 00:38:02 +0000, Fredxx <fre...@spam.invalid> wrote:
>On 02/02/2024 20:32, AnthonyL wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 18:14:28 +0000, Fredxx <fre...@spam.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/02/2024 13:46, AnthonyL wrote:
>>>> Local council car park providing 2hrs free, ticket to be displayed in
>>>> windscreen.
>>>>
>>>> I was going the chemist opposite the car park to pick up my
>>>> prescription. Although it is a car park I've regulary (couple of
>>>> times a month) I had a senior moment (I am nearer 80 than 75) and
>>>> forgot about the ticket. In fact I remembered I'd forgotten it and
>>>> mentioned it to the teller at the chemist as I was being served.
>>>>
>>>> Needless to say I'd got a Ł50* PCN on the return to the car ~10mins
>>>> after I had arrived.
>>>
>>> Did you then get a ticket?
>>>
>>
>> Why would I? I've got at least the remainder of the 2hrs before I
>> contravene another limit.
>
>I thought you had to put a free ticket on your car for your free 2
>hours?
Correct and the PCN was for failure to do this.
>I assumed you were only i the chemist for 10 minutes, I now
>presume you were longer than this and misread your OP.
>
The ticket was stuck on my car witihin minutes of my walking to the
chemist. It was as if someone was hiding behind a bush (or in another
car) watching for silly buggers not going to the ticket machine.
>> But in any event, I'd finished my business, got my prescription and
>> drove off to the next item on my list.
>>
>>> I thought there were rules about entry time and the time at which the
>>> ticket is purchased?
>>>
>>
>> Rules such as what?
>
>I thought there was a grace period between entering a car park and
>expected to display a ticket.
>
If there are I'd like to read them. From the PCN it appears that 5
minutes is the allowance as it states, observed from 09:54 to 09:59
I had gone there from buying petrol about 1 mile away. My petrol
receipt is timed at 09:46. At best I'm going to be arriving at the
car park after 09:50.
I wasn't "stop-watching". It's about 100yards from the car park to
the chemist. 1min there, 1min back, about 5mins waiting to be served.
The Civil Enforcment Officer could have said "Excuse me, haven't you
forgotten something", instead of no doubt rubbing hand with glee at
seeing another victim and meeting his financial targets.
And this is the same council whose roads I have to traverse everytime
I go anywhere and likely the cause of my recent MOT failure with a
broken suspension spring.