Don't Get Done Get Dom on parking

[honeybee13]

Today's show.

 

He spoke to the Parking Prankster and Patrick Troy.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05xbsts

 

HB

[Conniff]

That was a waste of 30 mins of my life. All he could come up with is the same as has been said on here a million time 'we need regulation'.

[honeybee13]

I agree, I didn't learn anything new. In fact I thought it left out a lot of what we know about appealing to POPLA and other organisations.

 

Nice to see the Prankster though.

 

HB

[dx100uk]

100% more informative than the useless watchdog program mind!!

 

 

dx

[DragonFly1967]

100% more informative than the useless watchdog program mind!!

 

 

dx

 

Can't argue with that.

 

Dom did however (as did Watchdog) get a few material facts wrong.

[silverfox1961]

When I saw the Watchdog program and they didn't name the company they had infiltrated, I did wonder if there were some legal goings on in the background.

 

Watchdog usually name and shame! By the end of the piece, I was ready to scream, "It's not a fine" and " What about the appeals process?"

[Conniff]

Did anyone notice that the boss from bpa said they can't issue a penalty. I might look again to confirm that.

[dx100uk]

they all got it eaxactly correct

and it was pleasing to hear it explained properly

and clearly what the tickets actually were.

 

 

unlike annie who used the word fine several times in the interview

 

 

I think dom said something about bailiffs that wasn't right though with regard to ppc speculative invoices

 

 

dx

[Conniff]

Did anyone notice that the boss from bpa said they can't issue a penalty. I might look again to confirm that.

 

 

He said, quote they are not fines, they are not penalties, they are notices unquote min 33:30

Edited May 29, 2015 by Conniff

[Cardiff Devil]

Last week's Watchdog I thought was a waste of a 20 minute segment. It was strange how they didn't name and shame the PPC concerned, apart from the fact that it's an IPC member there was no info given whatsoever.

 

If the advice still being given was to just ignore all correspondence then I suppose they could have simply just said that, however it'd probably have taken the full hour's show to explain the minefield that is POFA, POPLA and IAS etc. I think though that if they'd taken 2 minutes to explain GPEOL and that these punitive charges are not legally enforceable, it would have had a far greater effect, and people would see these fake charges for exactly what they are, i.e fake. The way Watchdog worded their report was that these are legitimate charges and if appeals fail, must be paid.

 

Has anyone written to the BBC to put them right? If not, I may just do that.

[SabreSheep]

Their report may have been stronger if the Bevis Result had not gone the way it did