Christ, I must be Victor Meldrew...
...but reading through others posts, I am reminded of a parking ticket I got not so long ago.
I reverse parked into a space - or what could only be seen as a space, given the fact that there was about 30 other cars along the same stretch of road - on night after a gig (around 2am when I finally got back home - I'd moved in about 2 days before and didn't really notice that there were double yellows all along the road).
In the morning, of course, I had a nice shiny ticket on the screen.
It was then that I noticed the reason for why I hadn't noticed the double yellows:



I think you'll agree that even in daylight these could hardly be called "Double Yellow" anything.

I sent pics off to them with a letter explaining that the road was not a lit road, and that I had parked there at night, making it even more difficult to see the lines. They replied that it was bad luck and that the signage - about 300 yards down the road - was ample enough warning, and that I had to pay.
So, I didn't. I waited. Then I got a "Notice to Owner" - a quick googling will show that this is a legal document and as such has to abide by many rules. The least of which is that you are given 28 days to either make payment, or make representations. The letter gave me a date. A date that was 28 days from the date that they wrote it. Unless they couriered the letter to me the very same day, then I was not being afforded 28 days, I was being afforded about 25.
I wrote back saying that I still believed that the lines in the road were a disgrace and that I had written to their FoI office for documentation informing me when the lines were last inspected (as they are legally bound to do), and that as they disagree, perhaps they might like to think again based on the evidence that I had not been granted my legal right.

Got a letter a week later telling me that no further action would be taken in this instance. A week after that the silly buggers repainted the lines. It was then that it was discovered by the British Legion club on the same road that the road was, in fact, a private road, privately owned by the British Legion and they had to come back and scrub the lines out.

Daft fuckers.
(dchurch bah, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 23:28, 1 reply)

Don't forget the termination bar either.
If the lines don't have a horizontal end bar: www.ticketfighter.co.uk/parking.htm#yellowlines, the ticket isn't kosher.
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 12:44, closed)