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On Mar 21, 9:21=A0pm, Tom Crispin  wrote: > I am ashamed to say that I got a parking ticket in July last year. > > I had loaned some bicycles to a local school, and on the last day of > term I moved the bikes to secure storage. =A0The most convienient place > to park and unload the bikes was on a yellow line. =A0I took the bikes > out of the car one at a time and placed them in the secure shed. =A0I > got distracted and ended up in a conversation with a colleague. During > that time my car was ticketed. > > I sent a letter of apology and explaination to the local council, and > by return of post they had cancelled the ticket.

Then I can only assume that you have "contacts" or that some leftie on the council likes what you do with bikes, because many people have sent in explanations far more reasonable than yours and come up against a brick wall.

> I find the system of ticketing vehicles very reasonable.

Council parking enforcement is done for two reasons: to make money, and to make things unpleasant for motorists. You only find it "reasonable" because you received preferential treatment for some political reason. Us "ordinary" folk don't get treated remotely reasonably, as countless anecdotes and media reports show. The only way to fight a DPE parking ticket for us "plebs" is to try to find errors in the PCN etc...in other words, fighting a technicality with technicalities.

Thankfully councils are so eager to issue tickets that they frequently make mistakes and it is almost always possible to find a flaw in their case somewhere. As things stand I have received 3 council PCNs and successfully fought them all, because they were INVALID and therefore why the hell should I have paid?