Would you photograph an illegally parked car for £10?

Just read an article where a firm UK Car Park Management, have an app for people to download to take photographs of illegally parked cars and send it to them. This is in car parks they control and not on public roads.The sender will then receive £10 for each picture when the fine is sent out to the owner.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sneaky-phone-app-pays-10-9747652

Most "transgressions" at these kind of car parks are based on overstaying. How does one photo prove this?

I foresee noses being broken.

Most "transgressions" at these kind of car parks are based on overstaying. How does one photo prove this?

It can't unless you are able to get the ticket and number plate in the picture together. Maybe the company could ask motorists to stick the ticket next to the number plate to make it easier for them to make more money.

There is nothing illegal in the way the cars referred to are being parked.

There may well be something illegal in participating in this racket.

For illegal and obstructive street parking maybe - but for a private car parking firm ? Nah.

It can't unless you are able to get the ticket and number plate in the picture together .

And then do phones automatically timestamp photos? Hmm....

well if was for the council and some idiot left their van on double yellows blocking the road for half an hour then yes. in a private car park no.

well if was for the council and some idiot left their van on double yellows blocking the road for half an hour then yes. in a private car park no.

And the same questions as before, how does one photo prove its been there for half an hour?

The whole system is riddled with flaws.

Sounds fun, like a new and profitable version of pokemon go. taking selfies with illegally parked cars.

id send the photo in for it being parked on double yellow lines, the reason id be more likely to do it is if I was stuck behind it on a narrow one way street with no way to get past which has happened to me before.

Problem is these days is that you can't say "the camera doesn't lie" any more. Some people can photoshop really well.