Barry’s parking ticket bid caught on camera (From Bury Times)
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Barry’s parking ticket bid caught on camera
9:20am Thursday 10th January 2013 in News
A PARKING campaigner was seen on a TV documentary deliberately getting a parking ticket in Bury.
Parking Mad aired on BBC 1 on Tuesday night and featured Barry Moss, a pensioner from Westhoughton, who had waged an unsuccessful High Court case against Bolton Council’s auditors KPMG in 2010.
During the 60-minute documentary, Mr Moss — whom the show described as “one of the country’s most high profile parking campaigners” — drove around Bury town centre deliberately looking to be given a parking ticket.
The 66-year-old told how he looked for locations where lines were not painted properly and was shown leaving his car in Silver Street, returning later to find he had been given a ticket.
A woman passer-by is filmed saying “that’s awful” when she sees he has been issued with the ticket, but the former roofer is heard to reply: “It’s all right love, I did it on purpose”.
He says he will contest the decision at a tribunal on January 24.
Mr Moss says people contact him from all over the country asking him to take up their case, and he claims he has had 92 of 96 parking ticket decisions overturned over the last six years.
He said: “Filming was quite an interesting experience.
“They came up to see me twice and we drove around Bury.”
He said: “A lot of people think I’m against parking or against councils enforcing regulations, but I’m not. If people park on yellow lines they deserve everything they get. But councils have a legal and moral duty to make sure their highways are painted as per traffic regulations.”
The show’s director James Ross said: “It’s easy to be negative about parking campaigners but most of them feel they’re genuinely fighting for something, there’s a civic-mindedness about them even if some of them do it in a slightly bizarre way.”
Bury Council said it could not comment as an appeal was pending.
Comments(8)
Smartguy
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12:03pm Thu 10 Jan 13
The officer who issued the ticket to Mr Moss's car is required as part of his duties to report any signs and line not in good order so he should have reported years ago that this non-existent bay was not enforceable (or face disciplinary action if he didn't) and was grossly irresponsible anyway for issuing a ticket where there wasn't even a parking bay.
Sadly the long-established incompetence in Bury's parking enforcement goes higher than the officer on the beat.
buckfeed17
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12:27pm Thu 10 Jan 13
R'Marcus
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3:53pm Thu 10 Jan 13
Highway robbery.
buryreader
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5:58pm Thu 10 Jan 13
carlchrystan
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8:39pm Sun 13 Jan 13
You know, if this guy used the energy for other things, such as charity work, that would be good for humanity.
Gimpkiller
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11:46pm Tue 15 Jan 13
His method for doing this is to get ticketed and raise awareness at tribunals so that a judge would enforce a writ on the council to ensure signs, road markings etc are proper and that enforcers are properly trained.
If this isn't charity work then I must be going mad!
Smartguy
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8:42am Wed 16 Jan 13
Mr Moss DOES do charity work (which I doubt that carlchrystan does).
As Gimpkiller rightly says Mr Moss's efforts are and continue to be to bring the many unnecessary illegalities of local authorities in their profitable parking enforcement into lawful order.
At great time and cost to himself Mr Moss has caused nearly 100 parking tickets to be cancelled, these being tickets given to others who asked for his help and tickets that were UNLAWFULLY issued by councils who are either incompetent or indifferent to the regulations they are required by law to follow but don't - or both.
Mr Moss has never asked for one penny in return for helping this enormous number of victims of wrongful council parking enforcement even though he has saved them many thousands of pound. Seems like charity to me.
I wonder what charity work and efforts for the benefit of humanity carlchrystan and buryreader do as they seem to have too much time on their hands and spend it carping with ill-informed opinions on things they obviously know nothing about.
The phrase 'get a life' springs to mind.
Smartguy says...
12:03pm Thu 10 Jan 13
The officer who issued the ticket to Mr Moss's car is required as part of his duties to report any signs and line not in good order so he should have reported years ago that this non-existent bay was not enforceable (or face disciplinary action if he didn't) and was grossly irresponsible anyway for issuing a ticket where there wasn't even a parking bay.
Sadly the long-established incompetence in Bury's parking enforcement goes higher than the officer on the beat.