I just got a Parking Ticket in a 3 Hr parking spot and I wasnt even there 3 hrs

sfwcork

I parked outsde of my officeI normally start @ 8.30 but i had issues getting out of the scracher so I was late and didnt appear until around 9I went out to my car for lunch at 11.45 and hey presto..a ticket on my windowI wasnt even there 3 hours and I was about to move itShould I jut shove it up the traffic wardens hole

snubbleste

No.
Go to court and tell the judge what you just articulated in your post.

FatherLen

find the traffic warden and teach him a lesson using physical violence.

davet82

Lunch at 11.45? :eek:

jessiejam

Are you sure it was a 3 hour zone and not 2 hour? Ive never seen a 3 hour zone. And, did you have a disk up?

Anyone

Expensive lie in.

sfwcork

Its 100000% a 3 hour zone. 2 signs on both sides of the street

I dont need a disc if i am within the 3 hours

yeah i was pekish to fancied an early sandwich

jessiejam

Bast*rd
He could have thought you were there since 8.30 ( your usual time)?

Stheno

sfwcork wrote: »

I dont need a disc if i am within the 3 hours

In Cork? I thought it was three hours parking with a disc?

Tombi!

sfwcork wrote: »

Its 100000% a 3 hour zone. 2 signs on both sides of the street

I dont need a disc if i am within the 3 hours

yeah i was pekish to fancied an early sandwich

If there are two signs would you not try smashing his face against them? Just so he understand it's 3 hours and not 2.

Kolido

sfwcork wrote: »

I parked outsde of my officeI normally start @ 8.30 but i had issues getting out of the scracher so I was late and didnt appear until around 9I went out to my car for lunch at 11.45 and hey presto..a ticket on my windowI wasnt even there 3 hours and I was about to move itShould I jut shove it up the traffic wardens hole

Are we still talking about the parking ticket?..

Cee-Jay-Cee

sfwcork wrote: »

Its 100000% a 3 hour zone. 2 signs on both sides of the street

I dont need a disc if i am within the 3 hours

yeah i was pekish to fancied an early sandwich

100000% of what? 100000% of 3hrs is 3000hrs so technically you should be able to park there for 125 days or 17.85 weeks or 4.16 months. Although if its 100000% of how sure you are then I don't know how to work that out as I'm not a scientist.

sfwcork

nope 1000000000% no disc required

his fleeced me.

dodderangler

Pick up the 3 hour sign and find the ticket fella
Take the sign , Turn that son 'bitch sideways and stick it straight up his candy ASS

MagicMarker

I don't get it, how does the traffic warden know how long you've been there? And if you were to dispute it, how would you prove when you got there?

milltown

sfwcork wrote: »

I dont need a disc if i am within the 3 hours

Surely a troll?
I dunno about Cork, but everywhere else with ticket parking if it says 3 hour zone it doesn't mean the first 3 are free, it means you pay for your parking but can only stay for 3 hours.

Cee-Jay-Cee

The traffic warden probably knows your car and in his infinite wisdom assumed you were on time for work. You should find the said traffic warden and apologies for disrupting his scientific method of calculating parking times.

ted1

I know of nowhere that has a three hour limit that doesn't involve a disk. And i'm awesome.

sfwcork

Im sorry but unless you have travelled every street in this gaff your not awesme

Im defo not a"Troll". Im just a normal joe soap that got fleeced by a khunt of a warden

risteardb

sfwcork wrote: »

I parked outsde of my officeI normally start @ 8.30 but i had issues getting out of the scracher so I was late and didnt appear until around 9I went out to my car for lunch at 11.45 and hey presto..a ticket on my windowI wasnt even there 3 hours and I was about to move itShould I jut shove it up the traffic wardens hole

take it straight to the city hall, with a written appeal and your ticket, they are very reasonable to be fair.... ("Some" Traffic wardens suffer from power surges though)

Heckler

sfwcork wrote: »

Im sorry but unless you have travelled every street in this gaff your not awesme

Im defo not a"Troll". Im just a normal joe soap that got fleeced by a khunt of a warden

I've travelled every street in Cork. Tell me where you were parked and I'll tell you if you're right or wrong.

Like someone else said if its a three hour zone it means you can park there for three hours WITH A DISC and then you have to move.

BizzyC

No way it's a 3 hour zone without a disc. The warden would have no way of knowing how long you've been there.

Nice try Op....

hardCopy

milltown wrote: »

Surely a troll?
I dunno about Cork, but everywhere else with ticket parking if it says 3 hour zone it doesn't mean the first 3 are free, it means you pay for your parking but can only stay for 3 hours.

Even if it was free, you'd need a ticket to mark when you arrived.

sfwcork

Its a traffic warden that only has to monitor about 10 streets. He walks around all day with this wee monitor tracking cars

uch

sfwcork wrote: »

Im sorry but unless you have travelled every street in this gaff your not awesme

Im defo not a"Troll". Im just a normal joe soap that got fleeced by a khunt of a warden

Nah Sorry, Ted1 is definitely Awesome, so I believe him

RainyDay

sfwcork wrote: »

Im sorry but unless you have travelled every street in this gaff your not awesme

So what street were you on?

sfwcork

Ted1 is not awesome.Take ur tongue out from up there will ya

Its obvious as night and day that Im the awesome one

p.s i hat theword awesome. so amercianised

Stheno

sfwcork wrote: »

Ted1 is not awesome.Take ur tongue out from up there will ya

Its obvious as night and day that Im the awesome one

p.s i hat theword awesome. so amercianised

If you were that awesome you'd tell us where you parked that you don't need a disc

donegal_road

I arrived back at my car one day to find a parking ticket under the wiper. I looked at the time and saw that it had been issued 5 minutes before, so I went to the ticket machine and bought a ticket, went to government services centre and they cancelled it. You get approx 10 minutes grace from when the ticket is issued

sfwcork

eh donegal road.. horse is well past the post now kid

uch

sfwcork wrote: »

Ted1 is not awesome.Take ur tongue out from up there will ya

Its obvious as night and day that Im the awesome one

p.s i hat theword awesome. so amercianised

Now you've hurt my Feelings

risteardb

sfwcork wrote: »

eh donegal road.. horse is well past the post now kid

never heard of it...... can't find it on google maps either!!

mightdomighty

risteardb wrote: »

never heard of it...... can't find it on google maps either!!

Good Lord.....em...surely not...hmmm


you won't find donegal_road on google maps, because it is a username

Local-womanizer

risteardb wrote: »

never heard of it...... can't find it on google maps either!!

Horse road? It's easy to find!

Knasher

Pics, of the signpost saying you can park there free for 3 hours, or it didn't happen

zzdp

ted1 wrote: »

I know of nowhere that has a three hour limit that doesn't involve a disk. And i'm awesome.

in Waterford city, around the peoples park they allow you to park disc free for 2 hours in a disc area. in order for you to use the park.:)

donegal_road

sfwcork wrote: »

eh donegal road.. horse is well past the post now kid

then I would buy a ticket anytime from a nearby machine, scan it in on your pc, and edit it using free software called Gimp, its the same as Photoshop. Print out your new ticket and chance it down at the services

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

sfwcork wrote: »

Im sorry but unless you have travelled every street in this gaff your not awesme

Im defo not a"Troll". Im just a normal joe soap that got fleeced by a khunt of a warden

I disagree. In any case, your story is extremly dubious. Donegal Road, Cork does not exist. And this idea of three hours free parkign before you need to buy a disc is ridiculous. All you have to say is you got there 5 mins before the traffic warden and he's got no comeback.

donegal_road

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

I disagree. In any case, your story is extremly dubious. Donegal Road, Cork does not exist. And this idea of three hours free parkign before you need to buy a disc is ridiculous. All you have to say is you got there 5 mins before the traffic warden and he's got no comeback.

Cork indeed exists, I lived in it for a few years

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

donegal_road wrote: »

Cork indeed exists, I lived in it for a few years

I hear rumours. Theer was one in the conspiracy forum. It's the Irish Bielfeld.

Now are you accusing the OP of parking on you?!

3ndahalfof6

sfwcork wrote: »

nope 1000000000% no disc required

his fleeced me.

But there is still the 1 percent,

donegal_road

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

I hear rumours. Theer was one in the conspiracy forum. It's the Irish Bielfeld.

Now are you accusing the OP of parking on you?!

no, I was telling him earlier that you get 10 minutes grace period, so if you see you have been ticketed, look at the time on the ticket and if your still inside 10 minutes from the time the ticket was issued, go to the machine and buy a ticket. You can have the parking fine cancelled at the government services centre if you present it with your parking ticket

monkeysnapper

The town I live in has 2 hour no disk , and where I work has 3 hours free also, no disk needed. I assumed this was a regular thing, obviously not!!

I'd just approach the the traffic warden and ask him nicely, if that doesn't go the way you intended then ask him or her for the next step in taking it further , insist that you won't be taking this lightly , just be calm tho.

In the future hold off on that early morning **** tho

Knasher

donegal_road wrote: »

no, I was telling him earlier that you get 10 minutes grace period, so if you see you have been ticketed, look at the time on the ticket and if your still inside 10 minutes from the time the ticket was issued, go to the machine and buy a ticket. You can have the parking fine cancelled at the government services centre if you present it with your parking ticket

Cork city uses scratch cards instead of ticket machines, and when the warden is issuing a ticket they take photos of the car to prove that there isn't a card displayed. There is no grace period, otherwise everyone would just scratch out 5 minutes after the ticket was issued. So that wouldn't work in the city at least.

Of course we still don't know where the OP was parking, so who knows...

OP, if there really is free parking for three hours, take a photo of the signpost and take it up to wherever you are meant to pay the fine. I'd imagine the warden is required to provide some proof that you were parked longer than you were meant to, and the only thing I can think of that would work is a picture. Maybe they send around a warden to take licensee plates first and then send around another to issue tickets for anyone still there, either way they can't have proof you were parked there for 3 hours, so you should be able to get out of it.

RainyDay

Knasher wrote: »

OP, if there really is free parking for three hours, take a photo of the signpost and take it up to wherever you are meant to pay the fine.

Funny how he's gone quiet now...

fasttalkerchat

3 hours free on "on-street paid parking" is very rare! Are you sure it wasn't something like €1 per hour for a maximum of 3 hours.

donegal_road

Knasher wrote: »

Cork city uses scratch cards instead of ticket machines, and when the warden is issuing a ticket they take photos of the car to prove that there isn't a card displayed. There is no grace period, otherwise everyone would just scratch out 5 minutes after the ticket was issued. So that wouldn't work in the city at least.

Of course we still don't know where the OP was parking, so who knows...

OP, if there really is free parking for three hours, take a photo of the signpost and take it up to wherever you are meant to pay the fine. I'd imagine the warden is required to provide some proof that you were parked longer than you were meant to, and the only thing I can think of that would work is a picture. Maybe they send around a warden to take licensee plates first and then send around another to issue tickets for anyone still there, either way they can't have proof you were parked there for 3 hours, so you should be able to get out of it.

didn't realise that, so my plan wouldn't work then.
When I lived in Cork we had a friend in UCC from Switzerland. He drove a ex-swiss postal car, yellow VW Golf. He would openly abandon it on Patrick St for hours at a time sometimes for a couple of days (this is before towing came in). There was a stack of parking tickets on the back seat which he never bothered paying.
One Christmas he was going back to Switzerland and went on the tear in Cork the night before and had to leave the car where he abandoned it on Patrick Street because he had to catch a flight.
On the front to the Cork Examiner two days later was a photo of his car with the headline 'Does anyone know who owns this car?'
That night vandals were messing on Patrick Street and set fire to the large Christmas tree which fell on-top of the car and that was that

MadsL

donegal_road wrote: »

didn't realise that, so my plan wouldn't work then.
When I lived in Cork we had a friend in UCC from Switzerland. He drove a ex-swiss postal car, yellow VW Golf. He would openly abandon it on Patrick St for hours at a time sometimes for a couple of days (this is before towing came in). There was a stack of parking tickets on the back seat which he never bothered paying.
One Christmas he was going back to Switzerland and went on the tear in Cork the night before and had to leave the car where he abandoned it on Patrick Street because he had to catch a flight.
On the front to the Cork Examiner two days later was a photo of his car with the headline 'Does anyone know who owns this car?'
That night vandals were messing on Patrick Street and set fire to the large Christmas tree which fell on-top of the car and that was that

TL;DR version. Karma is a bitch.