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Has anyone got caught and been summoned an infringement notice by the Maribyrnong City Council?? I just received one in my letter box on Friday for apparently stopping at a Loading Zone?!??!

I just stopped there to answer a phone call and i'm being fined $117??? Can i contest this at all?

Can someone share some of their experiences please. Thanks.

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You just admitted you parked illegally - so no?

Write a letter, you might get off however that is unlikely as you broke the law unfortunately.

LOL Ash..sometimes you have to reply with the most direct/straight forward answers. ;)

Anyone else with personal experiences on this issue and managed to get away with it? ;)

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literally happened to me 3wks ago on collins st. it was a shared zone, i saw the 1p but failed to see the loading zone. what confused me more was that there were 2 other parked cars in the same zone, so i put feedback through the melbourne city website asking for leniency, and received a letter almost immediately saying they acknowledge my plight, however pay us or die, and that the cars parked in that zone must have been commercial (admittedly one was a ute however the other was a wrx). just unlucky really, all i can say is be more careful next time (as will i!) ;)

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LOL Ash..sometimes you have to reply with the most direct/straight forward answers. ;)

Anyone else with personal experiences on this issue and managed to get away with it? :whistling:

;)

Sorry i would have put some sugar on it... but im working... @ 12:30am, on a sunday, that maketh me angry!

Especially when im in the middle of the bourne trilogy hahah :P

Charles89 Grand Master

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Can't you make up some excuse like.... You ran over something and you thought it had popped your tyre, so you went out and checked and when you got back into the car and about to leave, that's when they caught you?

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just off chapel the other night i saw 2 parking inspectors walking around ticketing stacks of cars.

at the corner of one side street i saw them having a bit of an argument with one guy due to the sign said no standing which was across the top half of the sign but underneath that there was a green sign which had parking hours on it - this was all one sign..

he was inside those parking hours yet they were telling him to move or he will get a ticket due to the clearway part..

lol where to parks!?

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Has anyone got caught and been summoned an infringement notice by the Maribyrnong City Council?? I just received one in my letter box on Friday for apparently stopping at a Loading Zone?!??!

I just stopped there to answer a phone call and i'm being fined $117??? Can i contest this at all?

Can someone share some of their experiences please. Thanks.

Were you sitting in the car? If so I would 100% write a letter saying that you'd simply pulled over with the engine running and had not exited the car. Explain why you had pulled over etc.

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:D

Sorry i would have put some sugar on it... but im working... @ 12:30am, on a sunday, that maketh me angry!

Especially when im in the middle of the bourne trilogy hahah :D

OUCH! Working on a sunday night I'd be pissed!! Go ban some spammer or issue warnings to vent your anger! :D

Were you sitting in the car? If so I would 100% write a letter saying that you'd simply pulled over with the engine running and had not exited the car. Explain why you had pulled over etc.

Yup, i was sitting in the car using my mobile phone. Had to accept the call as it was important. :) I will be requesting the picture which was 'taken' from their wonderful camera though.

If only the town council have half the brains, they can use the money spent on these cameras to patch up the damn pot holes on the roads instead! And maybe more police around the area to make it safer! :P

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What about stopping under a sign then getting out to read the bloody thing to see if it is OK to stop or park?

Sometimes they have so many signs and so many with tiny writing etc that you can't really read it safely whilst at a moving pace. You really have to stop so you aren't blocking traffic, then get out and have a look before deciding if you can stop/park or not. If I got booked in that situation I would be PISSED off.

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Has anyone got caught and been summoned an infringement notice by the Maribyrnong City Council?? I just received one in my letter box on Friday for apparently stopping at a Loading Zone?!??!

I just stopped there to answer a phone call and i'm being fined $117??? Can i contest this at all?

Can someone share some of their experiences please. Thanks.

yeah i got done after a parking lot attendant directed me to a car park, got a fine for parking in a permit zone, wrote a letter to the local council explaining what happened, havent heard back from them so i guess i got off, that was over a year ago.

a letter will only take 5mins.

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I got $195 fine for parking in a no parking zone, anyway I wrote the letter to the council and saying that there were a drunken guy ran across the road and I had to stomp on my break which caused my engine to stall, then my car would not start and had to push the car to the no parking zone and wait for help to arrive.... and the council let me go, but my battery was actually almost dead at that time, all I have to do is buying a new battery and show them the invoice.

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I got $195 fine for parking in a no parking zone, anyway I wrote the letter to the council and saying that there were a drunken guy ran across the road and I had to stomp on my break which caused my engine to stall, then my car would not start and had to push the car to the no parking zone and wait for help to arrive.... and the council let me go, but my battery was actually almost dead at that time, all I have to do is buying a new battery and show them the invoice.

Wow ok... Was that from the same council as mine? or different?

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I got $195 fine for parking in a no parking zone, anyway I wrote the letter to the council and saying that there were a drunken guy ran across the road and I had to stomp on my break which caused my engine to stall, then my car would not start and had to push the car to the no parking zone and wait for help to arrive.... and the council let me go, but my battery was actually almost dead at that time, all I have to do is buying a new battery and show them the invoice.

That's quite a story there lol. Also, you can just buy a new battery, but refund it right away after you photocopy the invoice :D

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It was actually in Perth, and it was a clubbing area so parking are really really hard to find or gonna cost like 5 beers to park the car at the pay parking area. :D I could have refund but I needed a new battery anyway so no harm to my hip pocket :D

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