Parking Inspectors

Hi there, I live in Melbourne and it just seems to be getting worse down here.  I reckon it’s time to sell of the car and walk, cycle or use public transport.  You see down here If you park in a train station car park, the ticket inspectors can actually fine you for parking there if you aren’t gonna use the train.  Seems though they got into a bit of trouble due to the fact that there was some law that didn’t allow them to do it.  They are in the middle of fixing that now.  The Melbourne city council is complaining big time too.  They say how much parking revenue has dropped because people are driving their cars to work less and less.  You know if we all started driving into work instead of using public transport they’d have a good winge about that too.  Stuff the council I say, stop your winging and get on with your jobs

This always happens, you know your running out of time on your parking meter so you dash out of the office to go fill it up again and it’s like they have these radar senses that tell them when a meter is about to run out because they are always there just before me.  Hooray just what I wanted another ticket to wallpaper my toilet with.  How the hell do they know?

An old guy and his wife came out of the bank and saw a parking inspector giving a ticket.  The old guy said that the parking guy was an ass and that he should be ashamed for giving out tickets for nothing.  The inspector wrote out another ticket for a cracked window to add to the other one.  The old guy went off at him again and the inspector wrote another ticket for a cracked blinker lens and added it to the others.  This time the old girl went off at him and he wrote out another ticket and told the old guy and girl to stop it as he can write tickets all day.

The old guy said,  that’s OK we have another half hour before the bus home arrives.  That’s not our car but we like to have a bit of fun while in town.

Each time I have gotten a parking ticket I have a legitimate reason for it, and even after trying to explain to the inspector, I get the brush-off.  There just doesn’t seem to be a way to get around them even though time and time again I hear stories from people that they get out of paying the ticket.  Who are these people that get away with it and how do they do it?  If that’s you I’m talking about then can you give me some hints and tips?  Those inspectors always seem to come out of the situation being right and I have to pay the ticket, whether I should have got it or not. And people wonder why there is no respect for authority when faced with this on a constant basis.

I have this huge problem with parking meters, not just the inspectors.  The amount of times I have loaded up one of those meters with $2 and $1 coins only to find that the parking meter has registered no time.  You can’t even retrieve your coins out of the damn thing after finding it faulty.  Other times I have loaded one up for an hour’s worth of parking and when I come back early I find the thing has run out of time!!  So is there a way to prove these things when trying to contest a fine?  Being an honest person doesn’t seem to count for anything these days especially when it comes to fines you should never have received in the first place.  If they want us to do the right thing, then why can’t they just do the right thing by us and at least maintain the parking meters and test them on a regular basis, not just sit back like fat cats and reap the benefits.