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Dischord
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PostPosted: 02:23 - 24 Nov 2007    Post subject: So I avoided a parking ticket... Reply with quote
I just reversed my car right back upto a wall, took my front sticky number plate off and hid my tax disc under the seat. Along with an unmarked car it was 100% unidentifiable / untraceable to a traffic warden and it survived fine for 5hours in a pay and display!

What are the legalities of this? to be fair it looked proper 'stolen and abandoned' but it worked!

Would be fun to set up a hidden camera and wait for a traffic warden to come along and not be able to write a ticket out Laughing
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PostPosted: 02:31 - 24 Nov 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
I must admit that is quite intuitive Laughing

Will be a bit p*ssed off when you do it next time and it has been towed off. Explain that to the police when you try and release it Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 03:21 - 24 Nov 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hmm, round here they would clamp you for being in a pay & display without a valid ticket. Confused
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m99dws
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PostPosted: 08:26 - 24 Nov 2007    Post subject: Re: So I avoided a parking ticket... Reply with quote
Dischord wrote:
100% unidentifiable / untraceable to a traffic warden :


Is the VIN/chassis number stamped on a plate visible under the windscreen?
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PostPosted: 10:26 - 24 Nov 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wont they just call the police and tow it away?
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Finglonga
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PostPosted: 12:10 - 24 Nov 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
powelly wrote:
Wont they just call the police and tow it away?


Usually do if it looks abandoned, probably not even seen by the wardens. Vin number is displayed under screen and you will get done for not displaying Tax as there is no excuse in a cage.

Very lucky, it could have worked out allot more expensive than a parking fine and you could have lost your car.
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PostPosted: 13:13 - 24 Nov 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ok , a Council run pay and display carparks are 20p and hour, that means you saved £1, thats just daft , you should of just bought the ticket mate , sure a quids not going to make you bankrupt.
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PostPosted: 14:56 - 24 Nov 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
£1.40 minimum an hour around here!! Shocked
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PostPosted: 15:02 - 24 Nov 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
jamie stokes wrote:
Ok , a Council run pay and display carparks are 20p and hour, that means you saved £1, thats just daft , you should of just bought the ticket mate , sure a quids not going to make you bankrupt.


They were charging more than that around here before you were born. All I can think is that you're caught in some sort of time warp and you're posting from 1973. Shocked Confused
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steveh
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PostPosted: 15:03 - 24 Nov 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
dont display my tax, never do.

ive been asked about it, even when i had my old one on, and they didnt bother!


i have it at home, safe with my documents, they know if im taxed or not.
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Finglonga
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PostPosted: 15:05 - 24 Nov 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
steveh wrote:
dont display my tax, never do.



Don't display in a car? Shocked
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PostPosted: 15:31 - 24 Nov 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
steveh wrote:
dont display my tax, never do.

ive been asked about it, even when i had my old one on, and they didnt bother!


i have it at home, safe with my documents, they know if im taxed or not.


Must have been a lazy copper or something. its a fixed penalty offence.
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PostPosted: 19:32 - 24 Nov 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
jamie stokes wrote:
Ok , a Council run pay and display carparks are 20p and hour, that means you saved £1, thats just daft , you should of just bought the ticket mate , sure a quids not going to make you bankrupt.
That's just because you wales lot are weird.


You can be done for not displaying a plate, not displaying road tax and then not showing a ticket. N way worth the risk, even for a laugh as it could go sour. IIRC parking warden people can to an extent make a point of seeing your reg I.E, taking a bag off it, I know what you did was different but...
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