IT is very rarely that I feel so incensed about an injustice that it forces me to put pen to paper.
I have read in the Bury Times about our over-zealous attendants patrolling the car parks and streets of Bury, never thinking that I would fall foul of these people.
I arrived in Bury to do some shopping just before 11am on Saturday morning, and parked in the Chapel Street car park. I purchased a ticket for three hours which was then clearly displayed in the front driver's side window. I returned to find I had been issued with a parking fine, stating that I had parked "without clearly displaying a valid pay and display ticket".
As my ticket was valid, and also clearly displayed, I am unable to understand why this ticket was issued. Without checking all the information available this attendant had seemingly just issued a ticket, putting the onus on me to write and prove that I was not in the wrong.
A little more attention to detail would have shown her that I did have a valid ticket, but on the driver's side front window. Anything other than a quick glance at the windscreen would have revealed this fact.
Will we come to the point where NCP insist that the ticket has to be displayed in one certain spot?
JANET BENT,
Salthouse Close,
Brandlesholme, Bury.
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