$200 donation to the auckland city council christmas party fund.

[Turbo]

my rego expired 30 days ago.
i didn't notice, unfortunately the parking nazis did.

now i've heard that you can get off a fine with a technicality for parking.

has anyone had any experience in doing so?

the reason is my ticket says i "operated a vehicle which failed to display a current licence label"
which is true.
it also said the locality was "O/S 28 wellesly st"
which is also true.

however it also says i was on kitchener "road" in "sandringham"
which, clearly , i wasn't.

if this was a parking fine i'd be able to get off, but since it's a failure to display the rego i might be pushing s**t up hill.

any lawyers / relevant experience?

failing that i'm just gonna write in and say give me a break. i never got a reminder and it's just over a month old.

[Simon MkII]

Were you parked outside your house? I got off a lapsed rego fine  by saying I wasn't using the car and had no where else to park it at the time.

[Turbo]

Were you parked outside your house? I got off a lapsed rego fine  by saying I wasn't using the car and had no where else to park it at the time.

nah, i was on a 1 hour max zone.

i did the maths and if i'd left it parked there for 30 days i'd be paying quite a bit more than $200.

good thinking though.

[Dubious]

Don't they waive the fine as long as you update your rego within 14 days?

[dubstar]

You can come up with any reasonable explanation and they will let you off.  I've been broke up til now, I've been overseas/in dunedin, etc...

[Turbo]

sweet as,
thanks for the advice.

i'll get a new rego at lunchtime then write them a polite letter.

[Evil Grale]

Or the basic truth, you say they have put "operated a vehicle which failed to display a current licence label" but quite obviously you weren't operating the vehicle or the parking guys couldn't have got you

[Turbo]

Or the basic truth, you say they have put "operated a vehicle which failed to display a current licence label" but quite obviously you weren't operating the vehicle or the parking guys couldn't have got you

yeah i thought of that, but they used the past tense "operated" and since it's a 1 hour P zone i would have had to operated it to get there.

but nice idea.

[Evil Grale]

yeah i thought of that, but they used the past tense "operated" and since it's a 1 hour P zone i would have had to operated it to get there.

but nice idea.

Bugger, hadn't taken into account the 1 hour issue. I thought you had been pinged for leaving it parked while trying to sell.
I got a ticket 2 weeks ago in town for 'overstaying my welcome' shall we say. Dumb asses put an N instead of an M as part of my rego on the ticket. Ha ha to them 

[Turbo]

Bugger, hadn't taken into account the 1 hour issue. I thought you had been pinged for leaving it parked while trying to sell.
I got a ticket 2 weeks ago in town for 'overstaying my welcome' shall we say. Dumb asses put an N instead of an M as part of my rego on the ticket. Ha ha to them 

nah it was the S4 i was driving.

that's a stroke of luck with the letter swap. (well, not for the guy with the N on his plate)