Licence label parking ticket?

[rastuscat]

It's also fucking easy to avoid unless you're a muppet

Amen Kickers

[Madness]

You're a bloated, flaming, pus-infested miserable excuse for a cunt

Nice post

[RDJ]

In the practice of my own profession, it's interesting how often when I encounter the jobsworths and rule-obsessed's that they suddenly flip some sort of mental switch and suddenly want exceptions from the norm because it's them and they are such special snowflakes. They are so used to dishing it out, that is a major neuronal shock for them when they are on the receiving end. The classic example is when their illness or injury is triaged as less urgent than that of a person who arrived chronologically later but is in far more dire straits. Despite explanations, the signal-to-noise ratio goes right up, the decibel level can get unsafe. Consistency is not in their playbook. Karma.

And no, it is not straightforward for Joe Average Consumer to avoid the unreasonable application of unreasonable regulations by jobsworths. For example, it cost me a few hundred dollars to switch over a previously approved plate from the right-hand side of my bike to the rear fender, because a policeman standing next to the left side of the bike claimed it could not be seen from that left side... yet a metre back from the rear tyre i.e. in the position he would be in a police car if he was not a pedestrian, you could see it clearly from the back/middle. And the bike had achieved a couple of years worth of WOFs prior as well as compliance when imported.

We all have examples from everyday life on how the puritan application and enforcement of idiotic regulations interferes with people going about their lives, safely, considerately, and reasonably.

[unstuck]

I'm from Hamilton,

You poor bastard, my condolences.

[unstuck]

This particular rule has been in force since Adam was a lad,

Adam was born a full grown man, or has the bible been lying to us for ever?

[unstuck]

It's also fucking easy to avoid unless you're a muppet

Ahh, see theres the problem right there. This place has more muppets than Jim Hensons basement.

[Flip]

Yep you displayed your rego in such a manner the parking orificer could not read it.

What the fuck were you thinking? That you are a special case and the rules do not apply to you? You can change the way it is mounted and lie to the cops, but if the parking nazi has taken a pic your $200 fine could become a conviction for making a false statement to the police.

Take one up the ass for the team and pay your road tax or take the risk, your call. Let us know what you decide we could do with a laugh!

[Latte]

As others have said the warden's won't move the label to check what it is, so can't guarantee your bike is rego'ed. So they will write a ticket (And yes, their "performance" is measured, although no targets are set they are compared to the other wardens and anyone not pulling their weight gets the question, so they will write you up - it's the 2nd largest income stream for the council you know ).

Show them you had current rego, explain it's a valid place to put it as per legislation or vibration moved it or whatever. Be polite, write clearly etc. You'll get a "This time we choose to be lenient" boiler plate letter. They do take pictures that are logged electronically so be honest.

Although I've never been a parking warden I have worked with the dept , and have also needed to write in for the same thing. Once upon a time a bottle of wine would get you off any ticket if you knew the right person...

[jellywrestler]

Yes, I understand that. But anyone who thinks it's justice that this guy gets a $200 fine for this because "rules are rules" should be strung up by their testicles in the town centre and flogged.

At the end of the day, this isn't a ticket for not having a rego (because he did), and it's not for not displaying the rego (he did that, too). It's a ticket for not displaying it in a way that's acceptable to Mr Parking Warden. It's a $200 ticket, which is an obscene amount of money for a parking ticket, for an issue that should have been sorted with a polite note or a phone call.

All those rule following cunts out there that think this is OK should jump off a fucking cliff.

and is the way people with expired rego particularly fix them to try and get away with it...

[Swoop]

What kind of utter fuckwit honestly writes that ticket and feels good about his/her life?

Normally one of the fat spastics who's waistline prevents bending down to properly inspect a rego/WoF label.

Mine is clearly displayed on the back of the numberplate. Fuck knows what year it expired though.

[scumdog]

I'd say. Some Richmond based Pom did me for being 4 days out. Genuinely didn't know. 4 days! Waste of time and trees.

But did you have to pay the fine?

[Tazz]

But did you have to pay the fine?

Hell no, I wrote in, that's why it was a waste of time and trees.

He ran my plate after he caught up to me in Havelock 50k zone and I then pulled in to a car park to put an extra layer on, and he specifically pulled me over for the rego after hiding down a side street around the corner and waiting there 10 mins, obviously hoping to get me speeding as well.

I know this because he said he ran my plates and that he was waiting for me

He was like the UK version of MacGyver with 1/4 of the IQ and a badge.

[scumdog]

Hell no, I wrote in, that's why it was a waste of time and trees.

He ran my plate after he caught up to me in Havelock 50k zone and I then pulled in to a car park to put an extra layer on, and he specifically pulled me over for the rego after hiding down a side street around the corner and waiting there 10 mins, obviously hoping to get me speeding as well.

I know this because he said he ran my plates and that he was waiting for me

He was like the UK version of MacGyver with 1/4 of the IQ and a badge.

I concur with your judgement of the event.

IF I had bothered to stop you it would have been to say 'sort your rego mate' and that's it.


And even though you got a ticket it was hardly revenue gathering - so how does THAT work???

[RDJ]

Warning, thread hijack.

I'm presently on assignment in Phoenix, Arizona.

Last weekend I rode from Phoenix to Laughlin for the Laughlin River Run, on a most excellent turbocharged '04 Vrod (a Kiwi expatriate - Trask Performance - in Phoenix makes turbo kits for this set-up, and dollar for dollar it was the best modification I ever made, at a special Sturgis price three years ago. But I digress.)

At just about every motorcycle run I have been to in the States over the past 12 years, there is a heavy police presence. Including on the inbound roads. The thing is, they're mostly interested in everybody fitting in and not being excessive and stupid. If you are doing 82 in a 75 mph zone along with everybody else and traffic is moving smoothly and you are in the flow/groove, they don't do anything. If you are going stupidly flat out in the left lane overtaking everything in sight - they pull you over ( I don't know what the penalties are but I suspect they are severe). Likewise in Laughlin itself. If you are there for a good time and having a good time and not interfering with other people having a good time, you simply do not notice the police presence other than as you ride by.

[Tazz]

I concur with your judgement of the event.

IF I had bothered to stop you it would have been to say 'sort your rego mate' and that's it.


And even though you got a ticket it was hardly revenue gathering - so how does THAT work???

And I'd say thanks, call you a good cunt and have it sorted within the next 2 days

I don't think I ever used those revenue gathering words to be fair. In the case of the OP's ticket I'd use the words 'lazy officious prick'.
We have an ex parking warden working here and she would have never ticketed that.