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

risteardb · 13-11-2012 04:26PM

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 · 13-11-2012 04:38PM

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 · 13-11-2012 04:39PM

risteardb wrote: »

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

Horse road? It's easy to find!

Knasher · 13-11-2012 05:15PM

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

zzdp · 13-11-2012 05:22PM

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 · 13-11-2012 06:01PM

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 · 13-11-2012 06:28PM

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 · 13-11-2012 06:30PM

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 · 13-11-2012 06:32PM

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 · 13-11-2012 06:37PM

sfwcork wrote: »

nope 1000000000% no disc required

his fleeced me.

But there is still the 1 percent,

donegal_road · 13-11-2012 07:19PM

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 · 13-11-2012 07:29PM

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 · 13-11-2012 07:35PM

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 · 14-11-2012 08:23PM

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 · 14-11-2012 10:36PM

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 · 14-11-2012 11:16PM

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 · 14-11-2012 11:33PM

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.

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

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