He contacted the council, and they canceled the fines a week before the video was posted. They said the contractor took a photo of the car and passed it along to exempt it from any fines, but the parking attendant didn't receive it. She had no idea, and now she's getting threats.
They're mostly reasonable. I received a parking ticket from a guy once claiming a sign was earlier on the road. I asked where so I knew for in the future where this area started right. He vaguely pointed in a direction. I went to go check. No sign. Messages the council and they cancelled my ticket too. A week later there was in fact a sign
"Well, nobody told me!" is a regular saying where I work. Getting threats for a simple miscommunication issue is just... depressingly on-par for humanity right now.
While I agree with you in general, I'd also say that the burden rests with the person giving the violation to do due diligence to ensure that tickets are only issued for true violations. Surely this parking warden patrols this area regularly and is aware of the areas where parking is restricted, if they aren't, they are failing at their job.
What part of this aren’t you understanding? He DID park properly… the council was even given notice of this fact when the contractor painted the space. She chose to repeatedly ticket him anyway.
By reading the notice that was sent to the council?
Also not really the victims PROBLEM. Her job is NOt to ticket vehicles that are properly parked. That she was too stupid or lazy to verify is evidence of her NOT doing her job.
Legally, a civil enforcement officer must issue a ticket when there is reasonable evidence of a violation - eg car in space. They have no discretion at all, that is all a management and appeals function. The matinal regulations were deliberately set like that to increase uniformity and fairness.
This is entitled the parking manager's fault not giving their team the required information
Name checks out, Karen. You think you can recognize every car on the street and remember the owners' situations (who's a c*nt and who's on vacation)? After a point, their mentality is check or pass.
Judging by your lack of theory of mind can I assume that you are younger than 4 years old? I think children should be able to understand that other people have different knowledge than them by the age of four.
What is hard for you to understand in the following sentence?
The fact that you know that this car is not improperly parked does not mean that the warden was aware of that at the moment.
Enjoying the logic pretzel you are twisting yourself into? All these extra steps for why she’s wrong when it’s simple enough to understand what’s going on. Even the bureaucracy understood the mistake and made sure things were resolved appropriately.
People who resort to violent threats are just miserable people looking for a reason to justify their aggression. The most logical conclusion would be that two different departments of government didn't communicate properly and it was a mistake. That was my first thought before even reading your comment.
To be fair, she may have been regularly using that bay before it was marked as disabled, particularly if this is near her home or place of work. It might have been "her bay" in the same way a lot of people have a favourite parking spot.
Still not “her bay” and her wording makes it sound like it was there to begin with. Her post was a literal witch hunt with her choice of words. All blame is on her and not the person who issued the tickets because of poor communication between departments. She should issue an apology
It was a parking spot before it was a disabled parking spot, and it seems like she was the one who petitioned the council to change its designation. I think a sense of attachment to the spot is a perfectly reasonable, human response. At no point does she imply that she literally owns the spot or has exclusive rights to it.
I don't think she really did anything wrong. All she asks is if anyone knows who owns it, probably so they can move it. She's not the one suggesting they slash the tires or asking for it to be towed, it's hardly a witch hunt. She even waited at least a week before asking.
Honestly, I think the only people acting unreasonably are the commenters suggesting the tyres be slashed, and the owner of the car for posting this after the fines had already been canceled. The situation was already resolved in the best possible outcome to him, what was the point of the video?
To be fair to the council, if you contest a parking fine, they will often rescind it. I was stuck in a meeting the other month and had a ticket which was put on my windscreen two minutes after the time elapsed.
I told them it didn't seem fair and offered to pay for the extra five minutes I was parked there for - proof could be found by checking their CCTV as to when I left. They got back to me the next day to say it had been cancelled and that I didn't owe anything.
Back in the '90s I got an alternate sides parking ticket in Brooklyn that was absolutely legit. I just completely forgot to move my car. So I paid it. I think it was $55 at the time.
A couple of years after I moved out of NY, the city tracked down my new address and sent me a letter. It said that a routine audit of the city's fines found that I had been ticketed unfairly. Folded in with the letter was a check for $55.
I still have that letter somewhere. I figure it's rare and unusual enough to have historical significance.
That is a great story, I love it. I think you should frame the letter. I really like the thought that an auditor for the city not only did such a through job, but that the municipality let them do it.
Heh - in some places, there's a negative grace period.
In roughly 1986, I got a ticket in Columbus Ohio, at 2:05PM, with a note on the ticket that the parking meter was only paid until 2:08PM. I left the spot at 2:07, with one minute on the meter. Could not get that one overturned...
I received a parking ticket in the mail from a small city in California that I'd visited once about 5 years prior. They must have typo'd my license plate because whatever identifying information was on the ticket (it's been too long for me to remember, but things didn't match up) didn't match my vehicle. I seem to recall it saying the car was red when mine was black.
In any case, I had to do a ton of work to get them to overturn it and got at least one threatening letter about non-payment of the fine. Anyone with half a brain could have pulled up DMV records and seen that the plate didn't match anything else but it was a huge hassle to not have to pay $50.
That's what I thought. Unfortunately, I was a student at the time and couldn't afford to exert any more legal leverage than being significantly pissed.
Naturally. However, I have faith in our justice system. Had you been wealthy and easily able to afford the ticket, you could’ve had it dismissed with a phone call. Even if you’d been hours over the limit. Justice is blind but she can feel the weight of gold.
Late 90s, I started working out of a crew quarters in Queens and there was a little dead end street that we would park at.
It wasn't well kept, the dead end overlooked Sunnyside yard, there were a couple of loading docks for some businesses and there was always some debris and trash piled up
After working and parking there for several months I was coming back from a job, came up the steps from Queens Plaza station, went to toss my bag in the trunk before going inside to drop off my equipment, and there's a fire hydrant next to my car that wasn't there when I parked or for the months that I had been working there.
What happened was, that one of the debris piles was covering a hydrant that had been knocked out. Nobody knew because the quarters was new to all of us so it wasn't a case of someone knowing and not telling anyone.
So over the space of 6 hours or so, a crew came, cleared the debris and installed the new hydrant, didn't damage my car and left me to deal with whatever happened.
Very fortunately for me I didn't get a ticket.
This is the spot nowadays, nice and clean, but look how low that hydrant still sits. That's why nobody ever saw the pipe when the debris was there, and they didn't have the bumpers back then.
That corner building with the blue banner used to have office space for some production company, and one day while we were waiting for our shift to end, we met Christopher Walken and Cindi Lauper there, they were filming some movie based in Queens. They were both pretty cool with us. Handshakes and some autographs before they left.
Tbh I think the ticket is fair. I mean how else are you supposed to enforce tickets and fines if not right after the time expires? If you get off for 2 minutes over and an excuse, what happens if someone is 3 minutes over with an excuse? If they excuse the 3 minutes, then they have to excuse 4 minutes and on and on. Everyone will make up an excuse and people will ignore parking meters.
I think at some point it just requires someone to make a judgement call. I was polite in my enquiry and offered to pay for the five minutes extra I spent in the bay. I guess someone did see that and thought I had a reasonable argument which then required a reasonable judgement. I'd been in that spot for four hours (which i'd paid for) so I guess five minutes isn't really that bad.
In the UK there is a legislation that gives you 10 mins grace period before you get a ticket and then after the ticket has expired. Meant to be to allow you to decide whether you want to park after reviewing fees/hunting for a space and for getting out of the car park after
There is a observation period, before tickets are given. Sounds like the parking attendant issued the ticket during the observation period.
Challenged a council parking ticket by asking about where they publish the observation periods - never heard from them again😁
"Not my job"
Literally, the painter could only do that if told to do that by the contractor, but yeah, the contractor totally could have done that as well as the picture, they just probably never thought of it. I give them credit for taking the pic and passing it on at least. That aside, assuming notice had been properly given in advance, the city should have towed the vehicle before painting...hell, even if they knew the notice was insufficient they should have towed it, then returned it for free. Painting around a parked vehicle is just crazy and by far the stupidest part of the whole debacle.
MASSIVE EDIT: I just realized they paint around the car anyway, the design of the disabled spot is such that it makes no difference. Painting around teh spot made perfect sense.
Seems like no one did anything wrong here. Car owner parked legally at the time. Traffic warden saw a car parked illegally and issued a fine, as they should. Contractor did his job but made sure an innocent wouldn't get punished for it. Council cancelled the fines because that's only fair.
There was a legitimate request for a disabled spot from a disabled resident. The council's statement said it was normal to paint the spot around an existing car. Otherwise they would have to block it off and wait, and that would be a lot more complicated and time consuming than just painting the box and exempting the car that was already there.
Her job was to ticket illegally parked cars. This car appeared to be parked illegally, and the fact that it was exempt had not been communicated to her. So what exactly do you think she should have done differently that wouldn't have been half-assed?
that lady playing the victim card @1:31, saying the bay was put in for her and that she just wants her spot back, when she never had the spot to begin with!
Something similar happened to me. People were working in my street and regularly posted new "parking prohibited starting xx.xx.xxxx"
One day i was out shopping, parked my car in front of my house as usual, and a few hours later, there was a sign in front of my car, that basically read "parking in front or behind this sign is prohibited", which is a common sign.
What threw me of was, that the date on the sign was the date from three days before. They basically made my parking spot illegal. But i was never worried, as i had a dashcam with date and time, showing that there was no sign in front of my car, when i arrived
Happens to me ALL the time because my designated parking spot borders on some bushes that get trimmed regularly. They erect "no parking from XX.XX.XXX" signs while my car is parked there, and since I'm not driving every freaking day, it has happened twice that I got written up for parking there while the trimming went on.
This is just a typical ragebait video intended to garner views even though it's not true. But never let the truth get in the way of a few likes, right?
The article says he posted it because he was getting abuse online. Causing her abuse was not fair, and he should have avoided that, but I can understand wanting to clear his name.
I mean, she also straight up doxxed him as well, it seems.
I know 2 wrongs don't make a right, but if you dox someone, for any reason, you also don't really have a leg to stand on to complain if you get doxxed in return.
I mean, she also straight up doxxed him as well, it seems
Either you're mistaken or I'm missing something. From what I can see, the disabled person who requested the bay was the one who posted online about the car which is where all the abuse started.
The parking attendant was just doing her job and putting parking tickets on a car parked in a disabled bay. The guy who posted the video zoomed in on her face and asked people to destroy her life for putting tickets on a car that was illegally parked, which is literally her job.
How in the hell was this her job? Even the contractor understood to exempt the vehicle, but she got some kind of hug up her ass and ticketed repeatedly to the point it looks like some kind of harassment in and of itself
The contractor was there when he painted the parking bay, so he knew the car was parked there before hand.
A parking attendant comes along the next day and sees the car illegally parked in a disabled bay. Now in your mind, how does she know that the car was parked there before the bay was painted?
The contractor provided notice… she chose not to check. Or to flatly disregard it.
And you’ve framed it as the car being illegally parked… go read the story. It was NOT. Regardless of extenuating circumstances, to say that a parking attendants job includes ticketing a legally parked vehicle MULTIPLE TIMES is just ridiculous.
First of all. The car was illegally parked because it was parked in a disabled bay without a blue badge. Obviously this was at no fault of the owner as the disabled bay was painted around their parked car and so the council didn't issue any fines.
Now. You claim that she refused to check for the notice, but how do you expect her to check?
Where do you live that you have to blur the faces of government officials in public places while they're performing their public duties as if they have an expectation of privacy?
In Germany - where OP wouldn't even have been allowed to have a security camera that films a public space, sigh. You're only allowed to film your own property, not a public street where strangers walk - even if your car is parked there.
Yeah, we really go over the top with our privacy laws. On the other hand, when you see in the US how fast state surveillance can turn from comparatively benign to a tool of the fasco-state, maybe it's not such a bad idea after all...
Thanks, that's good to know - I had been a bit puzzled, because I always thought that privacy laws had been standardized in the EU, so had to be at least remotely similar, even if maybe not as strict as ours.
In Portugal you're allowed to record a public street. The only thing you can't do is zoom in on someone specifically. But dashcams and the like are totally ok.
He literally mentions the danger of not knowing all the facts before commenting, yet neither he nor most of this comment section wants to consider the pretty likely possibility that the parking attendant had no idea he was parked there before it was painted. Y’all act like it’s unheard of for higher ups to forget to give an employee all the information they need.
How is this on the parking enforcement? She was doing her job. And to call her out for "parking illegally" herself? No. She wasn't parked for lunch or personal reasons. She was doing her job. All he would have needed to do is show the video to the council and the tickets would have been dismissed.
The idea of painting lines around a car that's already parked is crazy though and that needed to be addressed but everything else is a non-story.
He didn't even need to show the video. The guy who put in the disabled bay made a note on the system that the car was parked there before the bay was put in so the tickets were never processed into fines.
All he needed to do was contact the council and be told that there were no fines on the system for his car.
The only real issue here is that the parking attendant wasn't told about it and so she did her job and put tickets on the car.
Maybe Croydon is different, but in general a parking attendant's job is just to enter details into the system and issue a notice. It's up to the council to check the rest. That should definitely include telling the parking attendants that this car has been parked there since before the disabled bay was painted, but again that isn't the attendant's fault. She just did her job.
Standard bureaucratic mistake and the cheap seats start piping up. If this is your idea of an Orwellian Hellhole, you clearly read a different version of 1984 than was written.
Edit: Tbf with the US school system it was probably a picture book so we can't really blame them
Honestly. It's a pretty blatant sign of the "I didn't give a fuck when I made this account" attitude that I usually associate with bots. After all, why bother making creative names when you're just karma farming or being purposely divisive, and will likely soon be banned anyway.
Damn, fair enough though. I just couldn't be assed to come up with a unique name when I made my account so I used my default name scheme which was based on an old autogenerated name from something
He contacted the council, and they canceled the fines a week before the video was posted. They said the contractor took a photo of the car and passed it along to exempt it from any fines, but the parking attendant didn't receive it. She had no idea, and now she's getting threats.
They're mostly reasonable. I received a parking ticket from a guy once claiming a sign was earlier on the road. I asked where so I knew for in the future where this area started right. He vaguely pointed in a direction. I went to go check. No sign. Messages the council and they cancelled my ticket too. A week later there was in fact a sign
Time traveling confirmed. Fitting that it would be reserved for the meter maids.
"Well, nobody told me!" is a regular saying where I work. Getting threats for a simple miscommunication issue is just... depressingly on-par for humanity right now.
especially one that's reversed when it's brought to attention
Or she could just do her damn job properly… four tickets for a nonexistent offense is intentional.
I’m pretty sure her job is to write tickets for cars parked improperly.
While I agree with you in general, I'd also say that the burden rests with the person giving the violation to do due diligence to ensure that tickets are only issued for true violations. Surely this parking warden patrols this area regularly and is aware of the areas where parking is restricted, if they aren't, they are failing at their job.
That's what courts are for
What part of this aren’t you understanding? He DID park properly… the council was even given notice of this fact when the contractor painted the space. She chose to repeatedly ticket him anyway.
How was she supposed to know that if nobody told HER?
By reading the notice that was sent to the council?
Also not really the victims PROBLEM. Her job is NOt to ticket vehicles that are properly parked. That she was too stupid or lazy to verify is evidence of her NOT doing her job.
Legally, a civil enforcement officer must issue a ticket when there is reasonable evidence of a violation - eg car in space. They have no discretion at all, that is all a management and appeals function. The matinal regulations were deliberately set like that to increase uniformity and fairness.
This is entitled the parking manager's fault not giving their team the required information
Name checks out, Karen. You think you can recognize every car on the street and remember the owners' situations (who's a c*nt and who's on vacation)? After a point, their mentality is check or pass.
Judging by your lack of theory of mind can I assume that you are younger than 4 years old? I think children should be able to understand that other people have different knowledge than them by the age of four.
What is hard for you to understand in the following sentence?
The fact that you know that this car is not improperly parked does not mean that the warden was aware of that at the moment.
How is this hard? The fact she was unaware means she didn’t have sufficient information to be issuing citations.
Indeed. So you actually understand why she wrote citations when she shouldn't have, right? I don't see what's the whole debacle about then.
Enjoying the logic pretzel you are twisting yourself into? All these extra steps for why she’s wrong when it’s simple enough to understand what’s going on. Even the bureaucracy understood the mistake and made sure things were resolved appropriately.
It's over the course of MONTHS. Your eyes tend to glaze over after a few days. "Wrong spot = ticket".
People who resort to violent threats are just miserable people looking for a reason to justify their aggression. The most logical conclusion would be that two different departments of government didn't communicate properly and it was a mistake. That was my first thought before even reading your comment.
The woman who made the post and commented “I just want my bay back” as if she had it before all of this is a massive asshole.
To be fair, she may have been regularly using that bay before it was marked as disabled, particularly if this is near her home or place of work. It might have been "her bay" in the same way a lot of people have a favourite parking spot.
Still not “her bay” and her wording makes it sound like it was there to begin with. Her post was a literal witch hunt with her choice of words. All blame is on her and not the person who issued the tickets because of poor communication between departments. She should issue an apology
It was a parking spot before it was a disabled parking spot, and it seems like she was the one who petitioned the council to change its designation. I think a sense of attachment to the spot is a perfectly reasonable, human response. At no point does she imply that she literally owns the spot or has exclusive rights to it.
I don't think she really did anything wrong. All she asks is if anyone knows who owns it, probably so they can move it. She's not the one suggesting they slash the tires or asking for it to be towed, it's hardly a witch hunt. She even waited at least a week before asking.
Honestly, I think the only people acting unreasonably are the commenters suggesting the tyres be slashed, and the owner of the car for posting this after the fines had already been canceled. The situation was already resolved in the best possible outcome to him, what was the point of the video?
Is that you Sylvia? You should apologize for that post. It 100% made it sound like that person parked there knowing it was a disabled parking spot.
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I get your point, but at the end of the day…………..it’s only….a fucking traffic warden.
To be fair to the council, if you contest a parking fine, they will often rescind it. I was stuck in a meeting the other month and had a ticket which was put on my windscreen two minutes after the time elapsed.
I told them it didn't seem fair and offered to pay for the extra five minutes I was parked there for - proof could be found by checking their CCTV as to when I left. They got back to me the next day to say it had been cancelled and that I didn't owe anything.
Nice of them. NYC response to such a challenge has been and I quote "there is no grace period at the expiration of a parking timer "
Back in the '90s I got an alternate sides parking ticket in Brooklyn that was absolutely legit. I just completely forgot to move my car. So I paid it. I think it was $55 at the time.
A couple of years after I moved out of NY, the city tracked down my new address and sent me a letter. It said that a routine audit of the city's fines found that I had been ticketed unfairly. Folded in with the letter was a check for $55.
I still have that letter somewhere. I figure it's rare and unusual enough to have historical significance.
That is a great story, I love it. I think you should frame the letter. I really like the thought that an auditor for the city not only did such a through job, but that the municipality let them do it.
Heh - in some places, there's a negative grace period.
In roughly 1986, I got a ticket in Columbus Ohio, at 2:05PM, with a note on the ticket that the parking meter was only paid until 2:08PM. I left the spot at 2:07, with one minute on the meter. Could not get that one overturned...
I received a parking ticket in the mail from a small city in California that I'd visited once about 5 years prior. They must have typo'd my license plate because whatever identifying information was on the ticket (it's been too long for me to remember, but things didn't match up) didn't match my vehicle. I seem to recall it saying the car was red when mine was black.
In any case, I had to do a ton of work to get them to overturn it and got at least one threatening letter about non-payment of the fine. Anyone with half a brain could have pulled up DMV records and seen that the plate didn't match anything else but it was a huge hassle to not have to pay $50.
That is fucked up.
That's what I thought. Unfortunately, I was a student at the time and couldn't afford to exert any more legal leverage than being significantly pissed.
Naturally. However, I have faith in our justice system. Had you been wealthy and easily able to afford the ticket, you could’ve had it dismissed with a phone call. Even if you’d been hours over the limit. Justice is blind but she can feel the weight of gold.
Late 90s, I started working out of a crew quarters in Queens and there was a little dead end street that we would park at.
It wasn't well kept, the dead end overlooked Sunnyside yard, there were a couple of loading docks for some businesses and there was always some debris and trash piled up
After working and parking there for several months I was coming back from a job, came up the steps from Queens Plaza station, went to toss my bag in the trunk before going inside to drop off my equipment, and there's a fire hydrant next to my car that wasn't there when I parked or for the months that I had been working there.
What happened was, that one of the debris piles was covering a hydrant that had been knocked out. Nobody knew because the quarters was new to all of us so it wasn't a case of someone knowing and not telling anyone.
So over the space of 6 hours or so, a crew came, cleared the debris and installed the new hydrant, didn't damage my car and left me to deal with whatever happened.
Very fortunately for me I didn't get a ticket.
This is the spot nowadays, nice and clean, but look how low that hydrant still sits. That's why nobody ever saw the pipe when the debris was there, and they didn't have the bumpers back then.
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That corner building with the blue banner used to have office space for some production company, and one day while we were waiting for our shift to end, we met Christopher Walken and Cindi Lauper there, they were filming some movie based in Queens. They were both pretty cool with us. Handshakes and some autographs before they left.
Mine was in the UK and to be honest it's a rarity. Most parking enforcement in this country is a fucking scam.
Tbh I think the ticket is fair. I mean how else are you supposed to enforce tickets and fines if not right after the time expires? If you get off for 2 minutes over and an excuse, what happens if someone is 3 minutes over with an excuse? If they excuse the 3 minutes, then they have to excuse 4 minutes and on and on. Everyone will make up an excuse and people will ignore parking meters.
I think at some point it just requires someone to make a judgement call. I was polite in my enquiry and offered to pay for the five minutes extra I spent in the bay. I guess someone did see that and thought I had a reasonable argument which then required a reasonable judgement. I'd been in that spot for four hours (which i'd paid for) so I guess five minutes isn't really that bad.
That's fair. Someone else said that there's a law to allow 10 minutes of grace anyways so I'm glad you got off
In the UK there is a legislation that gives you 10 mins grace period before you get a ticket and then after the ticket has expired. Meant to be to allow you to decide whether you want to park after reviewing fees/hunting for a space and for getting out of the car park after
Ah I stand corrected. Thanks for the info! So I assume it's a hard cutoff at +10 minutes or is there a grace period for this too? Serious question lol
Eyy youre all good! I only found out about it myself about a year ago when I needed it.
Hmm im gonna assume not.. as when do the grace periods for the grace periods end 🤣🤣
There is a observation period, before tickets are given. Sounds like the parking attendant issued the ticket during the observation period. Challenged a council parking ticket by asking about where they publish the observation periods - never heard from them again😁
This was all very reasonable until the last sentence. What the fuck.
Not her fault but TF wouldn't leaving a waiver under the wiper by the painter have been a better option?
"Not my job"
Literally, the painter could only do that if told to do that by the contractor, but yeah, the contractor totally could have done that as well as the picture, they just probably never thought of it. I give them credit for taking the pic and passing it on at least.
That aside, assuming notice had been properly given in advance, the city should have towed the vehicle before painting...hell, even if they knew the notice was insufficient they should have towed it, then returned it for free. Painting around a parked vehicle is just crazy and by far the stupidest part of the whole debacle.MASSIVE EDIT: I just realized they paint around the car anyway, the design of the disabled spot is such that it makes no difference. Painting around teh spot made perfect sense.
Good move by the contractor!
Seems like no one did anything wrong here. Car owner parked legally at the time. Traffic warden saw a car parked illegally and issued a fine, as they should. Contractor did his job but made sure an innocent wouldn't get punished for it. Council cancelled the fines because that's only fair.
Even if what you’re saying is true how does creating a disabled spot where there wasn’t fit into all of this?
There was a legitimate request for a disabled spot from a disabled resident. The council's statement said it was normal to paint the spot around an existing car. Otherwise they would have to block it off and wait, and that would be a lot more complicated and time consuming than just painting the box and exempting the car that was already there.
It's like an Uno reverse. Get all the facts before you make up your mind.
Well she did park illegally
Are we supposed to feel more concern for threats made against the attendant than those made against the car owner?
And you both are letting the original crime of fraud by officials!
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Thats the cost of being the law and doing a shitty, half-assed job.
Her job was to ticket illegally parked cars. This car appeared to be parked illegally, and the fact that it was exempt had not been communicated to her. So what exactly do you think she should have done differently that wouldn't have been half-assed?
that lady playing the victim card @1:31, saying the bay was put in for her and that she just wants her spot back, when she never had the spot to begin with!
Well the disabled bay could've been made for her and she thinks the car parked in it after it was made. So it could be a misunderstanding.
Something similar happened to me. People were working in my street and regularly posted new "parking prohibited starting xx.xx.xxxx"
One day i was out shopping, parked my car in front of my house as usual, and a few hours later, there was a sign in front of my car, that basically read "parking in front or behind this sign is prohibited", which is a common sign.
What threw me of was, that the date on the sign was the date from three days before. They basically made my parking spot illegal. But i was never worried, as i had a dashcam with date and time, showing that there was no sign in front of my car, when i arrived
Happens to me ALL the time because my designated parking spot borders on some bushes that get trimmed regularly. They erect "no parking from XX.XX.XXX" signs while my car is parked there, and since I'm not driving every freaking day, it has happened twice that I got written up for parking there while the trimming went on.
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Link to news post confirming the council rescinded the tickets before the video.
This is just a typical ragebait video intended to garner views even though it's not true. But never let the truth get in the way of a few likes, right?
The article says he posted it because he was getting abuse online. Causing her abuse was not fair, and he should have avoided that, but I can understand wanting to clear his name.
Yeah, he should absolutely have blurred her face before releasing the video! Don't you have privacy laws to that regard?
I mean, she also straight up doxxed him as well, it seems.
I know 2 wrongs don't make a right, but if you dox someone, for any reason, you also don't really have a leg to stand on to complain if you get doxxed in return.
Either you're mistaken or I'm missing something. From what I can see, the disabled person who requested the bay was the one who posted online about the car which is where all the abuse started.
The parking attendant was just doing her job and putting parking tickets on a car parked in a disabled bay. The guy who posted the video zoomed in on her face and asked people to destroy her life for putting tickets on a car that was illegally parked, which is literally her job.
How in the hell was this her job? Even the contractor understood to exempt the vehicle, but she got some kind of hug up her ass and ticketed repeatedly to the point it looks like some kind of harassment in and of itself
The contractor was there when he painted the parking bay, so he knew the car was parked there before hand.
A parking attendant comes along the next day and sees the car illegally parked in a disabled bay. Now in your mind, how does she know that the car was parked there before the bay was painted?
The contractor provided notice… she chose not to check. Or to flatly disregard it.
And you’ve framed it as the car being illegally parked… go read the story. It was NOT. Regardless of extenuating circumstances, to say that a parking attendants job includes ticketing a legally parked vehicle MULTIPLE TIMES is just ridiculous.
First of all. The car was illegally parked because it was parked in a disabled bay without a blue badge. Obviously this was at no fault of the owner as the disabled bay was painted around their parked car and so the council didn't issue any fines.
Now. You claim that she refused to check for the notice, but how do you expect her to check?
So we’re doing post facto law now?
... how did he dox her? She didn't have a visual of him.
Where do you live that you have to blur the faces of government officials in public places while they're performing their public duties as if they have an expectation of privacy?
In Germany - where OP wouldn't even have been allowed to have a security camera that films a public space, sigh. You're only allowed to film your own property, not a public street where strangers walk - even if your car is parked there.
Interesting, sincerely. Thanks for the response.
Yeah, we really go over the top with our privacy laws. On the other hand, when you see in the US how fast state surveillance can turn from comparatively benign to a tool of the fasco-state, maybe it's not such a bad idea after all...
Technically this is the same in the UK, just honestly rarely enforced.
Thanks, that's good to know - I had been a bit puzzled, because I always thought that privacy laws had been standardized in the EU, so had to be at least remotely similar, even if maybe not as strict as ours.
In Portugal you're allowed to record a public street. The only thing you can't do is zoom in on someone specifically. But dashcams and the like are totally ok.
Well it is true. I am raging at the bitch who acted like the bay was there all along with “I just want my bay back.”
He literally mentions the danger of not knowing all the facts before commenting, yet neither he nor most of this comment section wants to consider the pretty likely possibility that the parking attendant had no idea he was parked there before it was painted. Y’all act like it’s unheard of for higher ups to forget to give an employee all the information they need.
How is this on the parking enforcement? She was doing her job. And to call her out for "parking illegally" herself? No. She wasn't parked for lunch or personal reasons. She was doing her job. All he would have needed to do is show the video to the council and the tickets would have been dismissed.
The idea of painting lines around a car that's already parked is crazy though and that needed to be addressed but everything else is a non-story.
I mean, parking rules apply to anyone but emergency responders... They are not there to be inconvenient, they're to maintain a decent flow of traffic.
Im often not parked for lunch or personal reasons, does not make it ok to slap it in the middle of the street.
That wasn’t the middle of the street. She stopped in front of other parked cars, out of the way to do her job.
*At the start of the video there is a car parked where she ended up parking. You are all idiots.
He didn't even need to show the video. The guy who put in the disabled bay made a note on the system that the car was parked there before the bay was put in so the tickets were never processed into fines.
All he needed to do was contact the council and be told that there were no fines on the system for his car.
The only real issue here is that the parking attendant wasn't told about it and so she did her job and put tickets on the car.
Her job involves checking if a vehicle is properly parked anyway. She chose to come back four times and never once CHECK
Maybe Croydon is different, but in general a parking attendant's job is just to enter details into the system and issue a notice. It's up to the council to check the rest. That should definitely include telling the parking attendants that this car has been parked there since before the disabled bay was painted, but again that isn't the attendant's fault. She just did her job.
Who and why did that guy take the tickets off the car??
That's really quite a fucked up thing to do...
Its win for social media again.
Seems petty.
Something trump would do…
You need another Trump over there…🇺🇸
The UK is an Orwellian hell hole. You can’t vote your way out of this. You’d better act soon before it’s too late.
Oh shut up lol.
Standard bureaucratic mistake and the cheap seats start piping up. If this is your idea of an Orwellian Hellhole, you clearly read a different version of 1984 than was written.
Edit: Tbf with the US school system it was probably a picture book so we can't really blame them
american idiot is a song, not an instruction manual.
You’re getting desperate Ivan
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Not really. The system worked almost as it was meant to work (They might have informed the parking inspector, mind).
https://www.reddit.com/r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR/comments/1pixson/comment/nt9g4oy/
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Where did he park it illegally?
What I would say if I had faulty vision and brain fog
I have faulty vision and brain fog and even I wouldn't have said that.
It’s what I would say if I was a fucking idiot.
He did not park it illegally
Brother, are you stupid?
Theres doubt?
This guy is a few spanners short of a toolbox
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I've learned long ago to never trust anyone on the Internet that has numbers at the end of their name
Honestly. It's a pretty blatant sign of the "I didn't give a fuck when I made this account" attitude that I usually associate with bots. After all, why bother making creative names when you're just karma farming or being purposely divisive, and will likely soon be banned anyway.
Okay listen...
I take offense at that!
For reddit specifically, the default username format is either WordWord(2/4 numbers) or WordWord(2/4 numbers)
I think, more specifically, it's AdjectiveNounNumbers, but I haven't actually looked into that consistently.
tbh there's a few legit users who have numbers at the end of their name haha.
I've always used 18 as that's the year I first made accounts online for stuff and then it stuck lol
Damn, fair enough though. I just couldn't be assed to come up with a unique name when I made my account so I used my default name scheme which was based on an old autogenerated name from something
Neither of those things are correct.
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