Renee Bishop obtained a nice within the mail weeks after her New Year’s Eve dinner at a restaurant in Manly in Brisbane’s east.
“There may have been one other car in the carpark,” she instructed 9News.
“I thought nothing of it, had a lovely dinner, and this week I get a fine in the mail for $88 for parking next door to the restaurant.
“I assumed how on earth did they even get our registration particulars?”
Another man was fined the same amount for visiting a McDonald’s drive-through in Coorparoo twice in one day.
The terms and conditions of the car park do warn against making multiple visits, but it’s in small writing on a sign next to the entrance.
Private companies paid by property owners to enforce time limits in private car parks issue the fines, using number plate recognition to catch out drivers and post them the penalty.
A loophole allows them to get the registered owner’s details directly from the transport department.
Queensland cracked down on dodgy tow truck drivers a few year ago and Transport Minister Mark Bailey said these “shonky” claims would be next.
“I believe it’s disgraceful and disgusting,” he said.
“We can be transferring to ensure this shonky behaviour is a factor of the previous, and it is actually disappointing to see individuals handled like this.”
In the meantime, the minister had one message for unlucky drivers.
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“Don’t pay the so-called nice as a result of it is not a nice. They’re not allowed to nice you underneath the regulation,” he said.
The firms can nonetheless pursue via drivers via the courts for the debt, however in actuality it is probably not price the price and energy to take action.
Source: www.9news.com.au
