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Re: Parking again - paying by mobile

#1996
From: Not really here
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:23
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On 28/11/2011 14:33, Zimmy wrote:
> On 25/11/2011 19:41, Brian Smith wrote:
>> Zimmy wrote:
>>
>>> However due to some chatty people in the shop queue in front of me I
>>> got back 8 minutes late, unfortunately to find a penalty charge notice
>>> (which, incidentally, has the same �30 fine as if I had not bothered
>>> to pay at all). Anyway, commit the crime, do the time - annoying that
>>> I was unlucky enough to get caught at just over the time, but no big
>>> deal.
>>
>> I definitely get the feeling all the parking ticket funds, and
>> associated karma, are going into the Edinburgh Trams project just now.
>> But that's a whole other wasps nest.
>
> Unfortunately all the council's 'karma', good and bad, result in tax
> payers losing money.
>

Nah, they got �30 from the OP - that's a win for the law abiding tax payers.
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From: Not really here <NRH@gmaill.com>
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Subject: Re: Parking again - paying by mobile
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:23:14 +0000
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