Hate Illegal Parking? Your Chance To Report Them And Make Money

[hc4361]

https://www.petrolprices.com/news/new-app-to-help-clear-up-illegally-parked-cars/

Good idea or power to the greedy and vindictive? Shouldn't the authorities be dealing with parking issues and not Joe and Joanne public?

[douglas9401]

This is not a job for a private company, all the police have to do is take a couple of minutes to issue the ticket instead of self-assessing the magnitude of the offence.

Start clearing up the petty stuff and the rest might follow. Shrugging shoulders never solved anything, get a bit more pro-active.

[tamborine]

Am not a grass!

[hc4361]

It would still be the council that issues the fine, douglas.

Tambo, an easy way to make £100 an hour in my locality whilst enjoying a nice stroll. Not tempted?

[THECORBYLOON]

On the website of those behind the app, it says it has a "simplistic design" which does not fill me with confidence.

[retrocop]

Nah don't think so. Got lobbing out tickets like confetti out my system when I got a motorbike and handsomely paid for it. Not for me. I'm retired.

[hc4361]

I'm going to train all my grandkids and send them out to different areas every weekend. They need a hobby - we can split the profits 50/50.

[ToraToraTora]

there'll be a lot of fights breaking out over this! Some will make a living out of it! I assume the income is taxable.

[hc4361]

I can't see many councils signing up for this. They get half the revenue but will still have to pay staff to review the videos and do the paperwork.
If the alleged offender appealed would the video maker be prepared to make formal statements and possibly attend the appeal?
It is perfect legal to park on yellow lines in some circumstances that a short video could not possibly show.

[retrocop]

//It is perfect legal to park on yellow lines in some circumstances that a short video could not possibly show.//

Quite correct. I received two tickets at different times when parked in the same bay. I had my blue badge displayed on the dashboard with the clock set at arrival time. The first ticket was issued by a video camera car that did a sweep twice up and down the road.Blue badge holders are allowed three hours. Other vehicles 40 minutes.
The video obviously didn't clock the blue badge on the dash.
The second time I was ticketed by a warden who did me from across the road.I wasn't sure if she was just logging me. She wrote the ticket and retained her counterfoil but the lazy moo didn't bother to cross the road to put my notification of a FPN on the windscreen.If she had crossed the road she would of observed my blue badge and that I was legally parked well within the time limit of three hours.
I got the summons through the post. I appealed and won. Next time I saw her in the London road I copped her number and reported her to tfl although they would of known who issued the ticket. They had the counterfoil. I suppose she threw my notification in the bin.

[hc4361]

I've successfully appealed a few times, too. The most satisfying was against a police issued FPN.