"It saddens me deeply to see such a level of dogma like treatment of “parking regulations” when like all matters one cannot subscribe to such matters of human law such water tight legislation. Honestly one wonders how an individual can defend these silly notions while retaining any ounce of self respect or any level belief in a system which is so clearly flawed.
While I may not be a legal professor I do know modern legal precedent has evolved precisely so cases such as this one are not won by those who push forward these silly “regulation traps” crafted to trap people such as myself in red tape in order to extract what is effectively tax money. Honestly even your claims on the issue are flawed “multiple dates scratched” while I have indeed gone slightly over the box I would not say the “16” is visible or in any reasonable way uncovered enough to be worth noting. If whoever placed this ticket noticed that while walking past you must grant him the award of “Captain Hawk Eyes” and perhaps move him into a career where his ungodly vision can be put to great use.
Now furthermore the whole idea that my lack of scratching out a “day” has any bearing on this situation is madness beyond repeal and you know this. Encase you were not aware for example March 15 cannot be both a Wednesday and a Tuesday, the same as all dates and as such the inclusion of a day field is hopelessly irrelevant on your forms. I am sure you will argue something utterly ridiculous like it is to “stop individuals reusing their permits on a yearly basis” but even you can’t believe such a ridiculous notion, in fact given the speed you change and make up new regulations on this issue it would honestly be surprising if their permits where still valid. While of even greater relevance is the fact these permits become inalid...
Now on to the matter of filling in a registration, well to start a date had been filled in (if you like it or not) and by the time I even awoke the “parking Gestapo” had returned to their stations as such meaning the permit was effectively irrelevant. While one could theoretically stake out their car, wait for the traffic warden to walk past and then outsprint them to a following car permit in hand it seems unlikely and in all honesty a measure not worth the time investment to attain it. Plus I can see quite clearly these permits have a unique number, surely with the likes of “Captain Hawk Eyes” at work you can clearly identify the same permit appearing twice in different cars. Even if you did supply it to another it would have only been valid at night and given said ticket would lose its relevance before you awoke it is utterly meaningless.
Really though the killer on this registration form is the poorness of its design. At night when placing the permit on my car I could not see in the slightest the section that said “place registration here” given its purple on purple background. I am not a superhuman I am limited by my environment and I had no capacity to even make out that the area at the top was anything other than some purple disused space. Even if I had identified it I do not carry a pen around with me everywhere and would have been unable to fill it in, indeed according to the box even pencil is not good enough for your tight regimental standards.
Beyond all this is the final fact that when I emerged in the morning to discover my ticket I also found no shortage of parking spaces in the surrounding area. It is important for you to understand the point of parking regulations is to ensure households have room to park their cars. It is not by any means a revenue raising method and the treatment of it as such is sickening and morally in just to a level only so common in recent years."
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