Why did warden photo my tax disc?

[5129frederick]

I picked up a parking ticket about three weeks ago

I picked up a parking ticket about three weeks ago.  He gave me less than five minutes.

"Too late!"  he barked.  "It's more than a minute overdue.  That's it.  There's nothing I can do about it."  He was quite bolshy about it.  But what REALLY got up my nose was the fact that he arrogantly took a photograph of my tax disc.  It doesn't run out until the end of July, but the fact that tax discs are no longer required to be displayed, what God-given right did he have to photograph it in the first place?  When I challenged him about it, he quite literally shrugged his shoulders and walked off without saying anything.  Arrogant B.  

[bankhaunter]

Could it be possible that any vehicle given a parking ticket is also checked for payment of tax and that by obtaining a picture of the tax disc it would do the same?

[**towery**]

my understanding is that if its still in date it should be still displayed

the wardens round here take photos of everything,  if the car's being booked

[kiss*my*pixel]

what God-given right did he have to photograph it in the first place?

Nothing to do with 'God' at all, I'd expect!

Parking Enforcement Officers take lots of photos from all angles of the vehicle and it's resting place, to prove they have not fabricated their PCN.

You could try to appeal (I'd suggest you send your appeal to the local council, though. I doubt God will be able to help)

[5129frederick]

God did help me in this case - to keep my cool!  Already paid the bill.  In church that Sunday:

"Your prayers are asked for ... and anyone else who you feel could do with His help."  Guess one person who wasn't on my prayer list!  !!!!!!!   

[kiss*my*pixel]

Guess one person who wasn't on my prayer list

Spoken by a true Christian

(You should have appealed though - might have been successful, especially if you'd only run over by one minute).

My daughter caught a parking officer standing over her car when she returned to it, waiting for the ticket to expire. She was in time, but he was standing there, waiting for the time to run out, with his pen poised. She did give him short shrift

[myraandjim]

In our local small town we don't have any problems - everyone knows that the traffic warden only comes on Thursdays so we just all avoid town on that day and park where we want the rest of the week.

[5129frederick]

Just put it down to experience.  It couldn't have come at a worse time though i.e. January.  The annoying thing is It costs 30p for half-an-hour but 80p for one hour, and no way was I prepared to pay an extra 20p on top - I was going to put a second 30p after half-an-hour, so a couple of minutes over the half-hour @ 30p, cost me £25.00!

As the old saying goes - God pays debts without money!  Doh!  

[aernethril]

I think that's right.

Also, it can work in the driver's favour when the very officious warden takes numerous photos of vehicle including number plates, but then gets the number plate wrongly entered - so the wrong owner is sent the demand for payment, and that person can then fight it on the grounds that the vehicle allegedly wrongly parked was not even a car which his vehicle was, but a large van.

[cee-dee]

You don't have to display your tax disc even if it's still valid.

"From 1 October 2014, the paper tax disc will no longer need to be displayed on a vehicle. If you have a tax disc with any months left to run after this date, then it can be removed from the vehicle and destroyed."

Taken from this site:-

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vehicle-tax-changes

[ed_blackadder_1]

I took mine off and my little car looks naked without it.

[**towery**]

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@ed_blackadder_1 wrote:

I took mine off and my little car looks naked without it.

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we got a letter from the  new  aa chairman  introducing himself and also including a square thing for the window with the telephone numbers on that 'could be placed where the tax holder once was '

lol