Fixed Penalty Fine For Minor Offences.......

[ToraToraTora]

Have you ever accepted and paid one of these knowing you could probably successfully challenge it but just didn't want the hassle? I have several times. I just considered it more of a punishment to go through all the aggravation of challenging it rather than pay the fine.

[THECORBYLOON]

What fines did you pay rather than challenging them and on what bases would they have been made?

[bednobs]

the only fpn i have ever got involved speeding. i could not have challenged it - i WAS speeding

[nailit]

No, Never!
That doesnt justify you accusing me of doing so on
other threads.
If you have ever recieved one of these then you should
never of broken the law.
(But of course, you didnt, did you?...just didnt want the hassle?)

[Atheist]

Yes; when I was 17 years and 11 months old I was caught having a pint in a pub. The old family lawyer said I could challenge it on the grounds of my being so daft that I hadn't realised I was doing wrong and that anyway I was nearly 18 so what's the problem? I couldn't be bothered taking a day off school and so coughed up the regulation tenner. My mates thought I was daft for coughing up when I could have kept the tenner for a round after my birthday, so I lost out all round.

[ToraToraTora]

a fixed penalty is not an offence unless you accept it as one. In this country you can challenge it and go to court and argue the case. For minor things, even if you think you are not guilty it is a lot easier just to accept it and in effect plead guilty and save the state the expense of prosecuting you.

[THECORBYLOON]

So what are the FPNs/FCNs you paid when you thought you shouldn't have?

[Maydup]

Never bothered to challenge a fixed pen as I knew I was doing over 70mph on a straight single carriage stretch.

[Ellipsis]

There's a theme developing. People who know they're bang to rights don't challenge it ...

And in fact, to give Boris some credit, he did accept he got it wrong and he didn't challenge it. Some of his MPs tried to make the same argument as TTT and he shut them down.

His argument is that he didn't realise it was wrong at the time, or even months later when he told Parliament that no rules had been broken. And that's why he thinks he can get away with telling lies to Parliament ... because he didn't do it deliberately. The problem is, if he didn't do it deliberately, he's a moron ... and that, essentially, is his argument. Apparently it's ok to have a moron as a leader, just not a liar.

[Peter Pedant]

// i could not have challenged it - i WAS speeding//

yeah you could have challenged on the speed wasnt the ridiculous speed the upright officer alleged
( clearly some years ago)
and yes I paid

|Parking tickets - frequently. if they havent filled their quota, they issue iffy tickets knowing the ticket will bounce if they appeal

[ToraToraTora]

21:16, Elipsis, wrong thread?

[Peter Pedant]

// I was caught having a pint in a pub//
I was 14 and my voice hadnt broke for my first pint ( not 'caught')
unthinkable in somerset

[barry1010]

I know people that have accepted cautions when they shouldn't have just because it's the easiest option.
I hope I wouldn't in similar circumstances and I wouldn't pay a FPN if I knew I hadn't committed the offence