Are parking violation stickers illegal?

hermit

Anan1 wrote:

I'm finding it hard to believe that these are serious questions. You soak the sticker in soapy water and gradually peel/scratch it off.

So you're parked on a street in the middle of a town? Where do you get soapy water, a sponge, and something to scrape the sticker off?

fletch

Or just wind down the window for the duration of your journey

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Anan1 wrote:

You buy them in a shop. If the nearest shop is too far away to walk to then you take a bus or a taxi. Are you honestly telling me that none of this would occur to you? What would you do, just stand there? Drive the car when you couldn't see out of it? And there was me assuming your choice of name was just a coincidence.;)

i wouldn't park in an illegal spot.

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fletch wrote:

Or just wind down the window for the duration of your journey

not if it's on your windscreen

DukeDredd

Anan1 wrote:

You buy them in a shop. If the nearest shop is too far away to walk to then you take a bus or a taxi. Are you honestly telling me that none of this would occur to you? What would you do, just stand there? Drive the car when you couldn't see out of it? And there was me assuming your choice of name was just a coincidence.;)

Right ya - get a taxi to a shop to buy some materials and get the taxi back - get real.

I'd sooner tie the security guard to my bonnet and force him to shout directions to me while i'm driving!

Anan1

hermit wrote:

So you're parked on a street in the middle of a town? Where do you get soapy water, a sponge, and something to scrape the sticker off?

Read the thread...

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i wouldn't park in an illegal spot.

Then you'll never have to worry about it.;)

Anan1

DukeDredd wrote:

Right ya - get a taxi to a shop to buy some materials and get the taxi back - get real.

What are your options here? You can either drive when you can't see, just sit there and look at it, or take it off and go on your way.

DukeDredd wrote:

I'd sooner tie the security guard to my bonnet and force him to shout directions to me while i'm driving!

Of course you would, big guy.

fletch

( . )( . ) wrote:

not if it's on your windscreen

I don't think any security company is stupid enough to stick it on the windscreen?? Surely

el tel

I have heard from a UK lawyer that placing a wheel clamp or a sticker on a car can be considered as tresspass on the vehicle. I think this may have been the basis of court cases but I don't know the outcomes.

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fletch wrote:

I don't think any security company is stupid enough to stick it on the windscreen?? Surely

well i've seen it so it must be true... see 2nd post in this thread.

Anan1

el tel wrote:

I have heard from a UK lawyer that placing a wheel clamp or a sticker on a car can be considered as tresspass on the vehicle. I think this may have been the basis of court cases but I don't know the outcomes.

I've noticed that many of the places that sticker cars have signs up warning of clamping, I wonder does that cover it? Honestly though, who here has ever come back to a sticker on their car when they didn't deserve it?

Anan1

fletch wrote:

I don't think any security company is stupid enough to stick it on the windscreen?? Surely

I haven't seen it, but it wouldn't surprise me. The whole point is to cause you aggravation.

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Anan1 wrote:

I've noticed that many of the places that sticker cars have signs up warning of clamping, I wonder does that cover it? Honestly though, who here has ever come back to a sticker on their car when they didn't deserve it?

i agree, but what's the idea the the sticker which is very hard to remove and placed on the windscreen. is it to embarrass the owner, as they'd have to remove it in usually a very public area?

DukeDredd

Anan1 wrote:

Of course you would, big guy.

Ah yes, hard man on an internet forum - would LOVE to have you say that to my face.

fletch wrote:

I don't think any security company is stupid enough to stick it on the windscreen?? Surely

Yip! Thats exactly what they're doing.

Anan1

( . )( . ) wrote:

i agree, but what's the idea the the sticker which is very hard to remove and placed on the windscreen. is it to embarrass the owner, as they'd have to remove it in usually a very public area?

The idea, quite simply, is to cause the driver enough of a pain in the @rse that they won't do it again.:)

DukeDredd

Anan1 wrote:

Honestly though, who here has ever come back to a sticker on their car when they didn't deserve it?

How about a maxillofacial surgeon rushing to A & E to work on someone out of a car crash and finds theres no space for his car?

Mitch Connor

DukeDredd wrote:

How about a maxillofacial surgeon rushing to A & E to work on someone out of a car crash and finds theres no space for his car?

what hospital doesn't have a doctors car park?

Anan1

DukeDredd wrote:

Right ya - get a taxi to a shop to buy some materials and get the taxi back - get real.I'd sooner tie the security guard to my bonnet and force him to shout directions to me while i'm driving!

Anan1 wrote:

Of course you would, big guy.

DukeDredd wrote:

Ah yes, hard man on an internet forum - would LOVE to have you say that to my face.

Think you may be getting a little confused there, big guy.;)

DukeDredd

Tauren wrote:

what hospital doesn't have a doctors car park?

Staff car park - first come, first served.

Mitch Connor

DukeDredd wrote:

Staff car park - first come, first served.

Every hospital my GF has worked in has a DOCTORS car park, for doctors only. If they park their car here they will NOT get clamped or fined as long as they are a doctor.

Even in the staff car parks (in temple street for example) the cars are parked anywhere they will fit; no sanctions. This means people have to move their cars to let others out but it is what happens.

I really really doubt a doctor is gonna have a problem with parking his car at a hospital.

DukeDredd

Anan1 wrote:

Think you may be getting a little confused there, big guy.;)

Have had plenty of run in's with security and spoke my mind.

Would still like to meet you though.

DukeDredd

Tauren wrote:

Every hospital my GF has worked in has a DOCTORS car park, for doctors only. If they park their car here they will NOT get clamped or fined as long as they are a doctor.

Even in the staff car parks (in temple street for example) the cars are parked anywhere they will fit; no sanctions. This means people have to move their cars to let others out but it is what happens.

I really really doubt a doctor is gonna have a problem with parking his car at a hospital.

Not where i am. Will gladly pm you the details of what happens at my workplace if you like!

unkel

Play nice, dudes!

el tel

DukeDredd wrote:

How about a maxillofacial surgeon rushing to A & E to work on someone out of a car crash and finds theres no space for his car?

A maxfax doc is unlikely to be rushing to A&E to do such work. If the crash was that bad then there'd likely be other more important (and possibly life threating) injuries to be taken care of first. Once these serious and immediate issues are mitigated then the maxfax intervention will take place. I dare suggest that there would be a maxfax specialist at hand anyway who could contain a situation until an on-call registrar or consultant arrived on the scene, after securely leaving their car in a designated car park of course.

Fey!

Anan1 wrote:

I've noticed that many of the places that sticker cars have signs up warning of clamping, I wonder does that cover it? Honestly though, who here has ever come back to a sticker on their car when they didn't deserve it?

Me. Maybe you should follow your own directions and READ THE THREAD.

Anan1

DukeDredd wrote:

Would still like to meet you though.

Are you threatening me?

Anan1

Fey! wrote:

Me. Maybe you should follow your own directions and READ THE THREAD.

I have. A clamper's assistant is a different thing to what we are talking about here - hard-to-remove stickers saying "Do Not Park Here" or similar, affixed as an alternative to clamping the car.

Fey!

Anan1 wrote:

I have. A clamper's assistant is a different thing to what we are talking about here - hard-to-remove stickers saying "Do Not Park Here" or similar, affixed as an alternative to clamping the car.

That depends on how you read it; a hard to remove sticker is still a hard to remove sticker, regardless of whether it's a security gaurd or a clamper who puts it on. When your car is clamped, a sticker is put on a window to let you know, just in case you miss the big metal thing attached to the wheel.

Anan1

Fey! wrote:

That depends on how you read it; a hard to remove sticker is still a hard to remove sticker, regardless of whether it's a security gaurd or a clamper who puts it on. When your car is clamped, a sticker is put on a window to let you know, just in case you miss the big metal thing attached to the wheel.

I assumed from what you said that what you got was just a little "marker", something the clamper could easily remove and replace with the big one. Conversely, the whole point of the "Do Not Park Here" ones is that they be hard to remove.

Fey!

The clampers here used to use the slightly bigger than A5 ones. Now they're not allowed to (VERY difficult to get yourself clamped in Galway these days, and it shows! )