Not only should the ticket be quashed and damages to car made, but also payment for 'pain and suffering'. This is absolutely absurd.

Was the workman trying to make a point? If he was, I am utterly not following.

Sounds like a personal vendetta to me. Weird. Shouldn't they have put up signs beforehand to warn people not to park there on the day it was going to be painted or something?

A similar thing happened to me once.

I was in a large restricted parking lot where I worked. I had gotten in late and parked in the far corner of a pretty full lot. When I came out my car was in a triangular area that had been marked as "No Parking" with a sign, cones and temporary tape.

I remember thinking how was I to get out of the area without ruining the tape. Then I got to my car and saw a parking ticket!! I appealed and got rid of the ticket but only after a long conversation with the person in charge of tickets (they at first assured me that my story "could not have happened" and said they normally require photographic evidence to waive tickets). After insisting to the stories' absurd truth, they finally relented thankfully.

Same thing happened to me parked outside Harrods in a residence permit area. They put up tape and no parking signs after we had parked there and then they towed the car. Luckily CCTV footage had captured it all. Even the policemen had a laugh about that one.

Once when I parked my car near campus they later chained up the parking lot so I couldn't get out, though they didn't give me a ticket. I went into a local resteraunt and they had a key to the padlock on the chain to get my car out.

Once I got a ticket on campus because my meter ran out, but it didn't actually run out. It was broken, but didn't yet have an out of order sign on it. I tried contesting it and was told that I should have noticed that it was broken when I put the money in it. I ended up still having to pay for that one.

I actually got a parking ticket today on campus for parking in an area where I can legally park. I have a parking pass that lets me park there and I've done it every single day this year and last year. I'm going to try to contest it, but I bet they're going to make some excuse saying I didn't have the pass in plain view or something.

I hate campus traffic police.

I think British Traffic Wardens are worse. Like hawks they are.

I've tried it as well. At the street I live they put up "no parking signs" and just after the police went down the row and isssued tickets to all the cars. I contested and got the ticket waived but many of my neighbors just payed.

Something similar happened to me, back when I was driving a big rig. I was delivering at a grocery warehouse in Kansas City. After I docked my truck in a door, I went back to the truck to go to sleep and await unloading. When I woke up, I was LOCKED to the loading docks, the warehouse was dark and locked up, the gates were locked and the alarms were set. Took hours to get out of there. Some people will do anything to get off work ontime, and in the process are just plain ASSHOLES...

It looks to me as if they had done some work on this section of road that had removed the previously painted lines.

The driver of this car was parking in a section of road that was clearly marked (except for the 20 feet or so he parked alongside) as a no parking zone. So, they did what only a clueless government agency could do....

I don't see how they could have damaged his car painting lines though...

It was the machine they used. The ones I've seen look sort of like push-mowers, only larger. I can see how scraping that against your car would do some dmg.

That is terrible.And I thought the London parking was bad.

The ticket should be quashed anddamages paid.

I have seen roads with small stretches of parking between stretches of no-parking, so unless there was some other warning designating this stretch as no-parking, he probably wasn't breaking any law by parking there. Since the painter damaged the tires, the local government of which he was the agent is legally responsible for the damages. Probably. I have some slight familiarity with American law but none with British and there could be some protection for a stupid government employee.

Although...If the vehicle owner has insurance & has a comp/coll covg on his policy - the gov't agency may be refusing to may dmgs, b/c his vehicle is going to be repaired REGARDLESS & the insured is only responsible for his ded. If the dmg is less than his ded...the guy may be trying to get reimbursed for rental charges while his vehicle is being repaired, etc. I can understand why they would not accept responsibility to pay it. Parking in a public street is basicly a gamble. When you hit a pothole & blow your tire out - the city does not repair your tire, or the dmg to your car.

Cars that are parked in the road where work has been done, such as line painting, can be legally moved by hoisting them up onto a trailer, and then replacing them. I presume that the damage was done to the car when they moved it.

Talking parking tickets: A co-worker of mine in Australian Telecom used to just take any tickets he'd been given and put them on another car.
He said he was amazed how often the person wouldn't check the ticket and end up paying his fine.
The lesson from that is check the ticket!

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