Police warning - Amberley (Thanks)

[Bikernereid]

If you were the biker who warned me today about the police sitting just on North side of Amberley, thanks mate. Much appreicated!

[The Baron]

Pay it forward.

[Bikernereid]

Pay it forward.

One does try.

[davereid]

Pay it forward.

I went to park in a pay-and-display carpark the other day.

Didnt need to pay.

Someone had returned to their car, with half an hour left on the ticket and had put it in the coin slot to save the next joker paying.

Something I will do from now on.

[cambridgedan]

I went to park in a pay-and-display carpark the other day.

Didnt need to pay.

Someone had returned to their car, with half an hour left on the ticket and had put it in the coin slot to save the next joker paying.

Something I will do from now on.

Same i like that idea,

[jono035]

I went to park in a pay-and-display carpark the other day.

Didnt need to pay.

Someone had returned to their car, with half an hour left on the ticket and had put it in the coin slot to save the next joker paying.

Something I will do from now on.

I do that all the time. Got caught out the other day late for a dentist appointment and had to park in a $12 all day car park, gave the ticket to someone else who as pulling up just as I was leaving, they seemed kind of stunned by it...

Of course, if lots of people start doing it, they'll just add that the ticket is only valid for 1 car and start noting down license plate numbers vs ticket numbers...

[BiK3RChiK]

Someone had returned to their car, with half an hour left on the ticket and had put it in the coin slot to save the next joker paying.

Something I will do from now on.

I've seen that before.. Also had peeps offer me a display ticket as I turned up when they were leaving and had time left on their pay and display:niceone:

[BiK3RChiK]

I do that all the time. Got caught out the other day late for a dentist appointment and had to park in a $12 all day car park, gave the ticket to someone else who as pulling up just as I was leaving, they seemed kind of stunned by it...

Of course, if lots of people start doing it, they'll just add that the ticket is only valid for 1 car and start noting down license plate numbers vs ticket numbers...

:niceone: Good on ya, mate! Pity there's always some uncharitable bean-counter ready to rain on peoples kindly deeds.:2guns: May it be a case of what comes around, goes around!

[allycatz]

There was a very sneaky cop on the Paekakariki Hill Rd (Kapiti Coast) yesterday....he was actually sitting up a bank with radar gun and car hidden...I flashed a few bikes coming my way

[peasea]

There was a very sneaky cop on the Paekakariki Hill Rd (Kapiti Coast) yesterday....he was actually sitting up a bank with radar gun and car hidden...I flashed a few bikes coming my way

Really? I'd like to see that.

[Breed777]

A guy at my work collected a weeks worth of tickets from a pay and display machine. he just slapped them on his dash and cunningly left a really shitty greasy spot on his windscreen right above the ticket... made it near impossible to read anything but the the actual day i.e MON TUE etc... got away with using the same 5 tickets for a year before getting a $40 fine for having a 12mth old ticket displayed... we worked out he paid the $40 ticket but saved over a grand in parking alone! :Punk:

[-easy--rider-]

A guy at my work collected a weeks worth of tickets from a pay and display machine. he just slapped them on his dash and cunningly left a really shitty greasy spot on his windscreen right above the ticket... made it near impossible to read anything but the the actual day i.e MON TUE etc... got away with using the same 5 tickets for a year before getting a $40 fine for having a 12mth old ticket displayed... we worked out he paid the $40 ticket but saved over a grand in parking alone! :Punk:


haha good trick

[Solly]

.....Of course, if lots of people start doing it, they'll just add that the ticket is only valid for 1 car and start noting down license plate numbers vs ticket numbers...

Let the barstards try......the fee is time related

[jono035]

Let the barstards try......the fee is time related

All they would have to do is add in the terms and conditions that the ticket only applies to one vehicle and is non-transferable. I doubt they'd bother for the time-related ones, but the tickets where it is x dollars for parking all day or all night then they might... Easy way to make a bit more money to pay for that stupid pedestrian bridge thing in the viaduct...

[Solly]

All they would have to do is add in the terms and conditions that the ticket only applies to one vehicle and is non-transferable. I doubt they'd bother for the time-related ones, but the tickets where it is x dollars for parking all day or all night then they might... Easy way to make a bit more money to pay for that stupid pedestrian bridge thing in the viaduct...

WTF??? Are you working for the council or something??.....prove the ticket some kind hearted person passed on to me is not mine. Way too much effort and time wasted to catch, what I would say is a small minority, where all the big bucks are generated by expired tickets.
Jono, get your head outta ya butt.....it's just not practical.

[jono035]

WTF??? Are you working for the council or something??.....prove the ticket some kind hearted person passed on to me is not mine. Way too much effort and time wasted to catch, what I would say is a small minority, where all the big bucks are generated by expired tickets.
Jono, get your head outta ya butt.....it's just not practical.

I don't believe I deserved that flame?

1) I have absolutely no love for the council and their ticketing policies, which if you had read this thread you would understand.

2) I said that they could easily do this if they wanted to, not that they should or were going to

3) it IS practical, and would only take a minor change in procedure and hand-held ticket machine software to implement, they already track tickets by number, tying that to a license plate would be easy.

Do us all a favor and calm down a little before pressing submit, please.

[Solly]

I don't believe I deserved that flame?

1) I have absolutely no love for the council and their ticketing policies, which if you had read this thread you would understand.

2) I said that they could easily do this if they wanted to, not that they should or were going to

3) it IS practical, and would only take a minor change in procedure and hand-held ticket machine software to implement, they already track tickets by number, tying that to a license plate would be easy.

Do us all a favor and calm down a little before pressing submit, please.

:laugh::laugh: Hook, line, sinker, rod & reel Jono....no flame intended.

I understand the third point you make about tying the plate number to each ticket..........modern technology(aka "white mans magic") is great.

But just for practicality sake, how much time would be taken up for every cars licence plate number to be noted by the "parking police" and then subtract that from thier main task of issuing fines for expired tickets........and zipping from car to car marking tyres.

....still not practical I say.

So, to make this work, employ MORE "parking police".......haha....I don't think the extra revenue would cover even half their wages..........still not practical I say....

........christ...NOW I'm starting to sound like I'm working for the council...:lol:

BTW Jono, I am always calm when I click submit............that's why I only told you to "take your head outa ya butt" and not your arse :whistle:

[jono035]

:laugh::laugh: Hook, line, sinker, rod & reel Jono....no flame intended.

I understand the third point you make about tying the plate number to each ticket..........modern technology(aka "white mans magic") is great.

But just for practicality sake, how much time would be taken up for every cars licence plate number to be noted by the "parking police" and then subtract that from thier main task of issuing fines for expired tickets........and zipping from car to car marking tyres.

....still not practical I say.

So, to make this work, employ MORE "parking police".......haha....I don't think the extra revenue would cover even half their wages..........still not practical I say....

........christ...NOW I'm starting to sound like I'm working for the council...:lol:

BTW Jono, I am always calm when I click submit............that's why I only told you to "take your head outa ya butt" and not your arse :whistle:

Hahaha fair call but where there is a will there is always a way and license plates are easy prey for OCR systems...

[Solly]

Hahaha fair call but where there is a will there is always a way and license plates are easy prey for OCR systems...

True, true.....but I was always taught....."where there's a will, there's a relative :whistle: