Did anyone watch last night?
It was about ticket fines quotas & stuff & how wrongly filled in tickets were upheld but the victimised motorist had to prove themselves innocent.
Where hundreds of receipts with debit & credit card details were dumped in wheelie bins anywhere alowing crooks access for ID fraud etc contravening the data protection act.
Lots of other issues too.

We had a similar thing happen to us in Devon last year.
Pay & Display sticker in window. In date In time still got a ticket. Spent the rest of the weeks holiday trying to prove our innocence.
After several nasty letters & emails I got it sorted & we didn't pay but we will never ever return to Devon.


Unless South Yorkshire declares war on them of course :rant:

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
Did anyone watch last night?
It was about ticket fines quotas & stuff & how wrongly filled in tickets were upheld but the victimised motorist had to prove themselves innocent.
Saw it, and bl**dy worrying it was too. Do they recruit from the same pool as that "Security" firm that run the immigration centres (program the night before) do you think.

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
We had a similar thing happen to us in Devon last year...
...we will never ever return to Devon.

Unless South Yorkshire declares war on them of course :rant:
Do you think while we're at it we could annex Cornwall, I'm up for the scrap if we can. ;)

I though the parking attendants were very 'ticket happy' what happened to aiming to get the traffic moving again, and moving people on? surly we would benefit more from them getting people to move their cars than just sticking a ticket on :rolleyes:

Also I couldnt believe these companies just throw all those credit card details in the bin!! :loopy:

What did everyone else think???

The company discarding sensitive credit card details argued that they were not breaking the Data Protection Act. However, they clearly were: credit card numbers are not in themselves classed as personal information but they will have to have been combined with name, address and probably DOB - all of which are covered by Data Protection Legislation.

What an eye-opener this programme was. It typified why privatisation of national services does not work. Instead of the law being used to maintain 'order' (in this case the smooth flow of traffic) private companies were setting targets of how many people needed to be penalised in a month to make the system "successful".

Disgraceful behaviour on the part of the private companies and the Local Councils awarding the contracts.

I worked on this story (I was the one who discovered the data protection act thing)

I actually asked them on several occasions if the had a shredder or some way of disposing of the info but they didn't. Apart from when i got the shots empting the bin all the personal details I handled I ripped up I couldn't bare to be resposible for not distroying them.

Originally posted by Bowski
I worked on this story (I was the one who discovered the data protection act thing)

I actually asked them on several occasions if the had a shredder or some way of disposing of the info but they didn't. Apart from when i got the shots empting the bin all the personal details I handled I ripped up I couldn't bare to be resposible for not distroying them.

So you were the lady in the film? Fantastic!

Hello lady who worked on the film, thats great that you distroyed the details that you saw being carelessly discarded, only wish the company had a proper policy in place.

Is this a sheffield forum exclusive from the lady who was on the film :clap:

Good one Bowski. R E S P E C T !

Good luck in your next venture exposing those bad bad people.

Thanks Guys it's nice to know what i did was appreciated!

I was talking about to my mate this morning, he watched it & mentioned the part about not putting tickets on dozens of cars double & triple parked outside a mosque, clearly breaking the law.

For 'political' reasons...

I must have missed that bit while 'flicking' in & out to avoid the sweary bits.

Whats all that about then :o ?

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
I was talking about to my mate this morning, he watched it & mentioned the part about not putting tickets on dozens of cars double & triple parked outside a mosque, clearly breaking the law.

For 'political' reasons...

I must have missed that bit while 'flicking' in & out to avoid the sweary bits.

Whats all that about then :o ?

We have the same problem in Stannington on a Wednesday night when the visitors to the Methodist Chapel park on the bend on double yellow lines. It is clearly a hazard and I have to swing out into the opposite lane to turn right.

What is it about organised religion and parking? Can they not spare a little time to find a legal parking spot?

If they got shunted would it be seen as an act of God? :heyhey:

Finally got to watch it last night. Shocking stuff.
Warning - This thread suggests that Shefffield may be going down this same route in April

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=29302