Parking fine

[Pintxo]

I visited the market/car boot in Nerja Sunday just gone and as usual parked half on the pavement in the centre as I (all regular spots filled) and todo el mundo has done for the past five visits. It didn't dawn on me at the time (10.00) why I was the only one parked there...just thought, oh well, quiet day, holiday season. Came back to find a Denuncia on my windscreen for 200 sodding euros!!! Is this normal, appealable, or am I an early victim of much needed governmental 'clawbacks/taxes'??

[gerryh]

Is this normal, appealable, or am I an early victim of much needed governmental 'clawbacks/taxes'??

Yes, No, Possibly.
If you pay early you might get a discount.
Cheers
Gerry

[Campo Steve]

As Gerry says, early payment may get you a discount. If applicable that option should be printed on the denuncia. I picked up a parking ticket in Almeria last year (didn't see the ticket machine). Various payment options were included with it.

As for being appealable, why should it be? Just because everyone else parks on the pavement doesn't make it right or legal. Personally I would ticket all cars that park on the pavement.

[ajtg1952]

Personally I would ticket all cars that park on the pavement.

I would go one further, and remove the offending car and crush it. Has the original poster very tried maneuvering a pram past cars parked partly on the footpath. If they had they would never park that way again !!....

[peteroldracer]

It is much safer to follow the national habit and always park on those white striped areas - sometimes raised - that are all over the place. It doesn't seem to matter if the car overhangs at both ends, either!

[Campo Steve]

Zebra crossings are a popular place to park.

[El Cid]

Zebra crossings are a popular place to park.

That's a very dangerous place to park - some idiot pedestrian might walk across your bonnet!

Sid

[gus-lopez]

Personally I would ticket all cars that park on the pavement.

I would go one further, and remove the offending car and crush it. Has the original poster very tried maneuvering a pram past cars parked partly on the footpath. If they had they would never park that way again !!....

Very true , unfortunately we tend to have nice clear pavements around here so why then do the half-wits insist on walking in the road ?
It's only 80€ tow-away fee up here !

[Pintxo]

Personally I would ticket all cars that park on the pavement.

I would go one further, and remove the offending car and crush it. Has the original poster very tried maneuvering a pram past cars parked partly on the footpath. If they had they would never park that way again !!....

Could you point this out a bit more highlighted for ajt and Campo steve....seems they are angels on earth

[Pintxo]

Personally I would ticket all cars that park on the pavement.

I would go one further, and remove the offending car and crush it. Has the original poster very tried maneuvering a pram past cars parked partly on the footpath. If they had they would never park that way again !!....

Very true , unfortunately we tend to have nice clear pavements around here so why then do the half-wits insist on walking in the road ?
It's only 80€ tow-away fee up here !

I as a rule tend to follow what is usually good advice....when in Rome.....that's why I parked there, behind every other LHD Spanish plated car.....I suppose they could have ALL been English???

[gerryh]

I as a rule tend to follow what is usually good advice....when in Rome.....that's why I parked there, behind every other LHD Spanish plated car.....I suppose they could have ALL been English???

I quote from your original post:-
" It didn't dawn on me at the time (10.00) why I was the only one parked there..."
So as no one else was illegally parked why did you think it was OK for you to do so?
Cheers
Gerry

[Campo Steve]

Beat me to it Gerry. Original posd no one else was parked there but then he goes on about "when in Rome" etc.

As for his uncalled for comment about me being an angel,I am certainly no angel and don't claim to be. I just don't agree with deliberately breaking the law, especially when it inconveniences others. I am sure ajtg is the same.

[Free at Last]

Personally I would ticket all cars that park on the pavement.

I would go one further, and remove the offending car and crush it. Has the original poster very tried maneuvering a pram past cars parked partly on the footpath. If they had they would never park that way again !!....

So would I. As a pedestrian (non-driver, by choice) I don't see why mothers with pushchairs, people pushing wheelchairs, old people with walking sticks or zimmer frames, or even I, should have to walk in the road dodging oncoming traffic because some lazy inconsiderate person can't be bothered to find a parking space and walk from there to where they want to be. Same applies to those who park across dropped kerbs and on pedestrian crossings.

[Mowser]

Campo Steve

I picked up a parking ticket in Almeria last year

As well as the two you picked up in Almuñecar? Arf arf arf.

[Campo Steve]

It began with an A. You're right, it was Almunecar. Two tickets as we had both cars with us. Not an intentional transgression.

[Pintxo]

Beat me to it Gerry. Original posd no one else was parked there but then he goes on about "when in Rome" etc.

As for his uncalled for comment about me being an angel,I am certainly no angel and don't claim to be. I just don't agree with deliberately breaking the law, especially when it inconveniences others. I am sure ajtg is the same.

There was still plenty of space to get prams/zimmers etc past............I assumed (wrongly obviously) that I had beaten the rush for part pavement parking as had been the norm every other week I had visited. In that area even without pavement parking, everybody walks in the road anyway, (it's a virtual cul-de-sac)with prams, pushchairs et al to go to the market.
If you aren't an angel (self confessed, transgressions elsewhere??) then your stance is arrogant to say the least. People in glass houses etc........

[Campo Steve]

Transgressions - yes, intentional ones - no. Nothing arrogant about suggesting it is wrong to intentionally break the law.

[ajtg1952]

[quote="Pintxo People in glass houses etc........[/quote]
I have been driving for forty two years and I have never had a parking ticket....... Basically because I have never parked where I should not have or not payed the appropriate fee, does that make me wrong !!...

[Pintxo]

I've been driving for 45 years and only picked up three parking tickets....you starting a pi$$ing contest? My inital post was about the severity of the fine not the fact that I had transgressed and was trying to wheedle out of it.
To my longstanding knowlege forums are about feedback to posts, not outright condemnation from forum police and pseudo parking warden cliques.

[ajtg1952]

I take it a nerve has just been touched; I think you have just answered your original question !!.....