My god, I went out this morning to take my kids swimming, and could I find my car??!! Turns out it had been "towed" by the poxy council, because I was supposedly parked "in" a disabled bay outside the doctor's in my rd. The wheels were NOT in the bay, a bit of the rear end was over the line, but there was LOADS of space to park, I was not obstructing the bay at all!!! I checked to make sure that there was loads of space still. My rd is a nightmare to park in at the best of times, and this is outrageous. I went to the pound today to claim my car (they want £200), and because I didn't have any ID on me, they said I couldn't have it. I told them all my docs were in the car and they could get them, and they said "we can't go to the car and get anything", even though the car was a few yards away! Don't get me wrong, I would not be moaning if I 'had' been parked "in" the bay (although, it is never used), that would have been fine, but I was obstructing none of it!! Any sized car could easily have parked there. I thought the idea of the law was to prevent people parking in the bay and stopping disabled people from being able to park there, seems to me this is just obtaining money from people by fraudulent means.
Sorry about the rant, but it really makes me mad this sort of bullshit!!! We are going on holiday on Monday as well, and that is £200 gone from our spending money!
My god, I went out this morning to take my kids swimming, and could I find my car??!! Turns out it had been "towed" by the poxy council, because I was supposedly parked "in" a disabled bay outside the doctor's in my rd. The wheels were NOT in the bay, a bit of the rear end was over the line, but there was LOADS of space to park, I was not obstructing the bay at all!!! I checked to make sure that there was loads of space still. My rd is a nightmare to park in at the best of times, and this is outrageous. I went to the pound today to claim my car (they want £200), and because I didn't have any ID on me, they said I couldn't have it. I told them all my docs were in the car and they could get them, and they said "we can't go to the car and get anything", even though the car was a few yards away! Don't get me wrong, I would not be moaning if I 'had' been parked "in" the bay (although, it is never used), that would have been fine, but I was obstructing none of it!! Any sized car could easily have parked there. I thought the idea of the law was to prevent people parking in the bay and stopping disabled people from being able to park there, seems to me this is just obtaining money from people by fraudulent means.
Sorry about the rant, but it really makes me mad this sort of bullshit!!! We are going on holiday on Monday as well, and that is £200 gone from our spending money!
It really makes you want to :hurl: