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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!f16g2000vbf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Time the Parking Scam was Wound Up Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 01:49:59 -0700 (PDT) Lines: 53 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.145.66.20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1242895799 3835 127.0.0.1 (21 May 2009 08:49:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 08:49:59 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f16g2000vbf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.145.66.20; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3702 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:829357

Hopefully this will be the first of millions of cases where motorists are rightly compensated by the authorities for being bullied by councils who are blatantly abusing their parking-related powers to make money (and also discourage people from driving).

As always with the trolls, they will sit back and accept what happened to this poor man: while he wasn't guilty of what he was accused of, he will express any form of outrage at the below, whereas if a cyclist had been treated like that, the whipped up, frenzied, hysterical complaining would run to hundreds of posts. When the trolls make it so obvious how much they hate motorists, you have to wonder just why they bother denying it: how stupid and gullible do they think people are?
 * was* guilty of driving, so he deserves what he got. Not one troll

It is time that parking enforcement was returned to the hands of the police everywhere. Then we can get back to parking enforcement being about what it always should have been: keeping traffic moving and the roads safe, rather than catching motorists out and stealing from them.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/5355173/Moto= rist-wins-1000-compensation-for-mental-stress-caused-by-bailiffs.html

Motorist wins =A31,000 compensation for mental stress caused by bailiffs

A motorist has been awarded =A31,000 compensation for mental stress after bailiffs were sent by Hastings Council in East Sussex to pursue a =A330 parking ticket which had already been quashed.

The award was the culmination of a legal tussle which began in May 2004 when the council issued two parking tickets.

Hastings swiftly rescinded the first ticket but not the second until later, when it also called off the debt collectors.

However the instructions were ignored and the bailiffs pursued payment, which led to the aggrieved motorist taking legal action.

"We are obviously sorry for the distress that was caused in this case because, as far as we are concerned, we did indeed call off the bailiffs," said a spokesman for Hastings Council.

More than 200 councils across the country now control parking and keep the money collected in fines, leading to complaints from motoring organisations that some town halls are using these powers to raise money.

Adjudicators can order local authorities can be ordered to pay an aggrieved motorist costs, when it believes a council has acted unreasonably.

But the award of =A31,000 compensation for stress is believed to be unprecedented in a parking case.