How many Leader readers have opened their mail and found a parking ticket they feel was unjustified.
Obviously for a society to function, it has to have rules; however, those that administer those rules should also have common sense and common decency.
Parking at Kogarah is diabolical at the best of times, so to make it easier for my wife to see her kidney stone specialist, I gallantly drove her in.
There was no parking or stopping outside the medical building, so reluctantly I paused for three to four seconds in a small side street for her alight, and I drove off. The next week in the mail, $236 for "double parking".
I took the third option on the back of the ticket and was summoned eventually to Kogarah court.
The magistrate agreed with me and within two minutes of fronting the bench, my wife and I left the courthouse after he had ruled a "section 10" (case proven and dismissed).
So my advice is if you've fallen victim to an overzealous parking ranger, don't just throw your hands in the air and meekly pay up as they expect most people will do. Go to court.
No, I don't mean people who are booked parking in places such as on a pedestrian crossing or who double park, dropping off children outside a school — they don't deserve a licence.
Hans Stephens, Kirrawee
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