A parking firm has been trying to charge people to park on their own land, according to furious homeowners, threatening them with a £100 fine if they refuse to pay up.
Um, well, maybe. But then, maybe not.
The retired grandmother, who needs to be able to get a walker out of her car, said she then struggled to get hold of the company responsible but that a neighbour had been told they were investigating it.
‘It took me five goes of ringing them and I spoke to someone who said they understood my frustration and they shouldn’t be up.
So, cock-up, then. It happens. I very much doubt anyone living there would have actually been issued a parking notice, but never mind that, what about the outrage?
UK Car Park Management has now taken down the signs
They put the signs in the wrong place and having realised their mistake, took them down. Problem solved.
but
Ah, there’s a but, there’s always a but, isn’t there. I wonder what that might be.
Ms Jackson has demanded compensation be paid to residents for the anxiety caused by the saga.
‘I’ve sent them other emails now saying they should be paying compensation for the stress they’ve caused and any damage they’ve done,’ she said.
FFS!
I’m in two minds. On the one hand, OK, a mistake was made and was rectified. That’s my definition of a good company. Mistakes do happen but how quickly and efficiently the company does something about it without being as awkward as possible is the mark of a good company.
However there is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKVdIiMMym8
What sort of a country has Britain become that you have to be paranoid and take precautions to prove your innocence and that you have complied with the rules? He has quite a few videos about parking sharp practices and overcharging. The parking companies need to be severely reined in and see what it is like when the boot is on the other foot.
So … maybe they SHOULD sue, maybe not. depending on how soon after this was brought to their attention they removed the signs.
I’m well aware that these parking companies are generally sharks, but this was fixed pretty quickly. So job done. But compo? Seriously?
Basically agree, but it could also be that they are just walking quickly walking away from the first sign of resistance and that they will simply try this somewhere else. Sooner or later they are likely to get somebody paying up.
Alas, it’s the sort of country the degenerates are turning it into. Once upon a time for something like this I would have accepted without hesitation that it was just an honest mistake.
But those days are long gone. These private parking companies – yes, I know they are just providing a service and in the “farm everything out” zeitgeist they are more or less inevitable – are, pretty well by definition, shysters and mountebanks.
Perhaps making an example of one with some ridiculous compensation might just make them think.
That’s likely to happen sooner or later as well, so I suppose the degeneration will continue.
I’m going with Occam’s razor on this one. Despite my dislike of these firms and their tendency to sharp practice, this is a stretch too far. Logic says someone couldn’t read a map properly.
Alas the degeneration is a broad church!
sharks
So are some of the “legal” firms running round offering to “help” you claim compensation of course. One lot I tried to look up after being repeatedly pestered by phone (about whatever the mis-selling scandal of the month was) always seemed to have the same address, which Google Maps showed as some rather small and anonymous offices converted from houses, but the company name was never exactly the same twice running. Would not surprise me to find they or someone like them was involved here.
One similar to Barbarus’ that we’ve seen in the past is a demand for outstanding debts run up by a previous tenant. They came from endless companies with the same address in Huddersfield and took a lot of persuasion to discourage.
I had that when we came back from France. The tenant’s boyfriend had run up debts. I told the collection agency to fuck off and do their worst as the person responsible was no longer here and they were harassing an innocent person. I also blocked their number. Never heard from them again.
I’ve read similar tales from people whose phone as been assigned a disused number. The person who formerly had that number was being chased by debt collectors who would constantly ring demanding to speak to them.
I can also confirm this from first hand experience. Reused number; repeated calls for previous owner of phone who had skipped out on debts. I must have received calls from almost all the larger UK collection agencies at one time or another.