Parking fine

[baffa]

Anyone had similiar?
Parked outside a mall in Auckland near the entrance recently, and to be fair I parked on the footpath, but it was out of the way of foot traffic. I figured it was either park there, or park in a carpark, which imo is a little selfish taking up a full carpark unnessesarily.
I emerge 30 minutes later to a $50 parking fine.

Fucking ridiculous. I've sucked it up and paid for it, but from now on I'm claiming a car park, so next time you drive to the mall and go round and round trying to find a carpark, only to see people wasting them with bikes, thank parking enforcement services.

[Big Dog]

Depends which mall. Westfield are normally pretty good except when you park near an unoccupied bike park.


Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

[Tazz]

Yeah just take a whole park. Fuck em. You can't win with officious cunts who are thick as planks and can't comprehend circumstances beyond their 'rule' book.

[Banditbandit]

Yeah just take a whole park. Fuck em. You can't win with officious cunts who are thick as planks and can't comprehend circumstances beyond their 'rule' book.

Yeah ... I use car parks all the time ... leave the bike in gear so drivers who haven't got a clue can't move it ...

[Tazz]

Yeah ... I use car parks all the time ... leave the bike in gear so drivers who haven't got a clue can't move it ...

Have people moved your bike before? That's a bit cheeky.

If everyone on a bike took a car park all the time maybe (done it bold red so it looks sluttier (to imply looseness)) they'd see sense and change the rules.

[R650R]

What kind of PC shit is that... Only time I avoid taking a car space if is there is a designated bike park in a safe place.
A bike using a car space is no different to single occupant car using one.

[Reckless]

Have people moved your bike before? That's a bit cheeky.

If everyone on a bike took a car park all the time maybe (done it bold red so it looks sluttier (to imply looseness)) they'd see sense and change the rules.

Or they'd make a no bikes in car parks rule and start ticketing you for not using the bike park that was 1km away outside in the pissing rain? Unfortunately you'll never stop the "little man, lots of power" type that love these jobs.

Are Westfields not private property? Do council wardens patrol them as I've never has a problem myself??

[Blackbird]

You could have tried humour first in a grovelling letter. I got pinged in Rotorua years ago so wrote a letter to them and got it waived - see attached. Nothing to lose by trying next time!

[Erelyes]

Someone left a message on my bike once too, which said 'Parking fine'.

I thought, what a nice compliment.

[Gremlin]

Look on the bright side... you could get to the parks.

Went to Sylvia Park for pretty much the first time (visiting Torpedo7). Whole sections of the carpark were height restricted to 2.2m so my van couldn't fit. Cue several sections of reversing because I couldn't turn around either.

Do you think I could lodge a case for height discrimination?

[JimO]

You could have tried humour first in a grovelling letter. I got pinged in Rotorua years ago so wrote a letter to them and got it waived - see attached. Nothing to lose by trying next time!

good grovelling sir

[Tazz]

Look on the bright side... you could get to the parks.

Went to Sylvia Park for pretty much the first time (visiting Torpedo7). Whole sections of the carpark were height restricted to 2.2m so my van couldn't fit. Cue several sections of reversing because I couldn't turn around either.

Do you think I could lodge a case for height discrimination?

What's worse is when you hit it on the other side of the building....on the way out.

[baffa]

Fantastic grovelling Blackbird, I am humbled.

I wrote a letter to the CBD following a similiar fine last year for parking on the footpath (technically, although it was parked where noone would walk) more to the effect I parked there out of courtesy when free car parking was available, and I would take car parks in future, and they told me to sod off.

It blows my mind that they take issue with bikers parking out of the way causing less inconvenience to everyone.

[TheDemonLord]

If there was no Motorbike parking availible - you could always try the line of 'I would have parked in a designated motorcycle parking space, but since there weren't any provided, rather than take up a car park, I parked elsewhere'

it may work, it may not - but Like Blackbirds' fantastic peice of literature, its worth a shot.

[Moi]

Yeah just take a whole park. Fuck em. You can't win with officious cunts who are thick as planks and can't comprehend circumstances beyond their 'rule' book.

Yeah ... I use car parks all the time ... leave the bike in gear so drivers who haven't got a clue can't move it ...

It's not the officious officials that are of concern... of greater concern are the drivers who deliberately knock a bike over and then drive off, if you're lucky. Or knock it over and give it a push as well...