ARRRIVING late back from a council meeting by a mere 27 seconds appears to have cost an elderly motorist a hefty parking fine.
Archie Wilson, 71, claimed he received a £60 demand from a private car park operator after he returned from a council meeting in Perth.
The retired draughtsman had paid 90p to park his car for one hour had been caught out by a photographic system which identifies the registrations of vehicles entering and leaving.
Mr Wilson said: "I couldn't believe it when the demand for £60 rising to £100 after 14 days arrived through the letterbox. There were two photographs of the registration plate with times that show that I had overstayed my welcome by 27 seconds. There is no way I am paying any penalty."
A spokesman for operators Smart Parking said it had no record of Mr Wilson buying a ticket. He said: "He correctly received a charge as we have no record of him buying a ticket, although on that day all of our payment machines were working and were used by many hundreds of motorists."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article