Court orders woman to pay £24,500 to private parking company

[BenMcr]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...ntral-39478203

A woman has been ordered by a sheriff to pay a private parking company £24,500 in unpaid charges.

Carly Mackie ignored hundreds of penalty notices for parking at Dundee's Waterfront without a permit, claiming they were unenforceable.

[Mr K]

Carly was wrong then wasn't she ?

[nashville]

She should have paid them to start with and she would not be in this situation.

[denphone]

Everybody else has to pay so why should she be different from the rest of us...

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by nashville

She should have paid them to start with and she would not be in this situation.

Thought she was being clever, wonder how smart she feels now

Hooray for people who get their legal advice off the Internet.

Originally Posted by Chris

Hooray for people who get their legal advice off the Internet.

She probably failed to make a public declaration on Facebook that she was not bound by the terms of the parking agreement.

[Kursk]

That's a significant debt to place upon a young woman; can't help feeling there might have been another way of protecting her from her own ignorance before things got out of hand.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Kursk

That's a significant debt to place upon a young woman; can't help feeling there might have been another way of protecting her from her own ignorance before things got out of hand.

Well her car might get repossessed so that will protect her from any more fines (!)

[Osem]

Originally Posted by Kursk

That's a significant debt to place upon a young woman; can't help feeling there might have been another way of protecting her from her own ignorance before things got out of hand.

You're beginning to sound like one or rwo remainers I know around here...

I'm afraid I have no sympathy for her or those who only seem to heed advice which confirms what they want to believe. Too many people run their lives via what appears on Google's first page of results and they really need to be a lot more responsible, especially when the stakes are so high. Kerching.

[Kursk]

Originally Posted by Mr K

Well her car might get repossessed so that will protect her from any more fines (!)

Might also make her less employable and less able to pay the fines etc

Originally Posted by Osem

You're beginning to sound like one or rwo remainers I know around here...

How can you be so cruel?

Originally Posted by Osem

I'm afraid I have no sympathy for her or those who only seem to heed advice which confirms what they want to believe. Too many people run their lives via what appears on Google's first page of results and they really need to be a lot more responsible, especially when the stakes are so high. Kerching.

Fair point. But if they'd just clamped her car early on and not released it until she paid a fine, she wouldn't have accumulated an horrendous debt. Or was that the plan?

The circumstances are indefensible; I just feel there could have been a different approach and resolution. It's not as if she was parked in an otherwise usable space.

[nomadking]

They gave her over 200 tickets. It's not as if they waited in silence and then hit her with a massive bill. She knew full well that it was wrong, but thought, incorrectly, that she would get away with it. She wasn't a tenant and so had no right to be there.

Sheriff Way said Ms Mackie had parked outside the garage and would not accept the offer of a parking permit for a space nearby for £40 per month.
In a written judgement, Sheriff Way said: "She admits she parked without a permit, on the property that the pursuers were contracted to protect. "She had no better right or title to do so than any other interloper or stranger no matter what her belief might be."

[pip08456]

From the report.

She had been living at a flat with her stepfather, who was a tenant and had a garage at the property.

Sheriff Way said Ms Mackie had parked outside the garage and would not accept the offer of a parking permit for a space nearby for £40 per month.

I wonder if the garage was empty?

[Julian]

Originally Posted by pip08456

From the report.



I wonder if the garage was empty?

Apparently it was used to store parking tickets.

[Kursk]

Originally Posted by nomadking

They gave her over 200 tickets.

After half a dozen they might have tried something else: clamping would be more likely to get the fines paid and she wouldn't be saddled with a life-changing debt.