Ticketing of Bikes - Footpath and Wof/Rego tickets

[motorbyclist]

I need the Parking Warden's ID number (should be on the ticket) and the "offense", pm me with it

Anyone else who recieves a ticket, if i could get the same (or even better would be a scan of the ticket), please pass it on to me...

what's the plan? i've got 3 tickets i can lend you, with photos

EDIT: ok, just read your post in the other thread

[Squiggles]

*revive*

officer number 71 shall be getting a spanking tomorrow

Hanne has her second set of $400 worth of tickets to show, this set is from number 71 (as was yours mb) Not only that, but he's just chucking them on the bikes, her first set was found by someone else who knew her and tonight it was only just hanging on when we got to it an hour after issued

Im going in tomorrow to sort it out

[motorbyclist]

did you take in the pic of mine i PMed you?

i've not heard anything from the council at all, not even a notice to chase up the bill...

[Hanne]

Stephen is going down there today with my bike and the pic you took, I think.

Well, if my wallet arrives! >< Left it in Whitianga but Grandad is couriering it (Has the other tickets in it)

[Phurrball]

Hi all,

Just received a 'reminder' for a $200 ticket on Ingrid's FXR for failing to display current WOF. Dated early October - never received the ticket that was allegedly served by affixing to bike...

Surprise, surprise - officer 71

Will provide ticket details to Stephen ASAP.

I am so f*cked off right now!

[Hanne]

Yes please, asap, i have a letter here which i am sending in, and ill add yours to the list of examples on it... can you also chuck me a picture of the warrant on the bike (im assuming it is on it :P ), even if it isnt though the issue of them just chucking the tickets on the bike is in the letter, the response to it is what i want though, gets me a name to talk to
-Stephen

[Macstar]

Officer 71 eh? At least parking wardens can read (unlike the recently accepted NZ Police cadets who struggled with the alphabet). Actually, scrub that, maybe officer 71 can't read?!

[motorbyclist]

i heard yet another ad on the radio to be a cop; apparently you get a 5 week holiday and 50k a year, and need only 6 months training (they don't mention the fitness requirement)

so why would anyone want to be a nurse or teacher?

[klyong82]

i heard yet another ad on the radio to be a cop; apparently you get a 5 week holiday and 50k a year, and need only 6 months training (they don't mention the fitness requirement)

so why would anyone want to be a nurse or teacher?

I did the online test and I got 26 out of 29 so I think I am fit to be a cop. Well probably only a forensic investiGATOR...

[Macstar]

I wanted to be one once, but my loss of license 3x ruled me out. However, they've since laxed the whole 'criminal convictions thing', so maybe I could get in?

Why don't you become one Andrew and then try to catch us motorcyclists on your standard issue Honda Goldwing (Police version) motorbike?

[motorbyclist]

lol, i can't run far enough nor fast enough to be a cop

[Bloody Mad Woman (BMW)]

Write in - I got off one of those = had a warrant and rego - they hadn't checked - I was parked on a footpath - explained I had been doing this solidly for 3 months - watched others park there when I didn't use it.

[DougieNZ]

Ummmm I might be missing the point here. This seems a lot like the speeding ticket debate.

1. The photo shows you parked on the footpath.
2. The photo shows your WOF hidden behind your number plate.

So the problems is???

To be fair the WOF situation is probably a common one. But before the various abusive comments about wardens/police, was the law correctly applied?

"Everone else does it"
"I've been doing it for months"

Valid defences?

[Jantar]

Ummmm I might be missing the point here. This seems a lot like the speeding ticket debate.

1. The photo shows you parked on the footpath.
2. The photo shows your WOF hidden behind your number plate.

So the problems is???

To be fair the WOF situation is probably a common one. But before the various abusive comments about wardens/police, was the law correctly applied?

"Everone else does it"
"I've been doing it for months"

Valid defences?

Yes, I believe they are valid defenses. The law is specfic about placement of the wof on a car, but less so on a bike. The main point as I understand it is that the wof must be displayed at the rear of the bike. It does not say facing the rear.

As for parking. It is illegal to park in such a manner that the vehicle obstructs a foot path, not that the vehicle may not be on the foot path.

Subtle differences perhaps, but still valid ones.

[motorbyclist]

i call it common sense. and for that reason speeding and parking are in different leagues.


and the fact is i have a warrant. why/how ticket me for $200 for not putting it in an obvious enough place? biggest issue is how the wardens (and i've seen them) don't even bother to look. you'd think they would atleast check behind a common place such as the number plate, but no, they just walk along ticketing