Been at at it years.
Three parking raps before this,
one a council ticket,
Rotherham council tax dispute,
Diamond holiday resorts,
Bristol street motors and until this summer undefeated.
Drove the wife to East Midlands airport and she said 'you might as well drop me off here and I'll walk to the terminal' so I pulled off the road and off she trotted.
Unwittingly I had done so in a restricted zone and a week later received the letter.
I gave my standard type response-' put some decent signs up, and dispense with the usual threats and take me strait to court'. It always worked in the past. They didn't quit.
Looking on google earth I couldn't work out where I'd pulled over. From the photo of the car it suggested I had parked in an area that was grass and trees, and then everything fell into place.
The creation of restricted zones, no more free 15 min drop offs and a hard standing area next to the car park barrier with a camera pointing right at it. Entrapment.
We're not looking at getting off now, We're now looking at getting the right people involved here who might cause enough of a stink that results in VCS losing its access to the DVLA.
The court process was well underway and as I was worked up for the day I decided to drive down to the airport and pace out the distance from where I thought I'd parked to 'the sign' that was situated in the BP garage.
To my horror there was no hard standing area, warning signs were everywhere [their correspondence said 'the clearly visible sign by the BP garage'] and I couldn't work out where I'd pulled over. The word devastated doesn't come close.
Feeling that I didn't have a leg to stand on I capitulated.[ I've got a feeling that you're going to tell me that I would have won]
Still, back to winning ways.
Its a pity that everything we have to do is reactive.
we need to come up with ideas to hurt them and then mobilize the public.
And have a bit of fun doing it.