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Well,
according to MET Parking Services it was…! Daryl Wood (G07) has good reason to be grateful for being on Dial-a-Cab. Had he not completed a credit ride during the afternoon of July 6 2009, he would have been lumbered with a hefty £100 parking fine for a 5 minute tea stop at the McDonalds restaurant in Trafalgar Way, E14. Daryl related the sorry saga to Call Sign, highlighting for the benefit of other subscribers what could feasibly be some kind of parking fine ‘scam’. "I came into work around noon from my home in the south-east, stopping briefly at McDonalds near Billingsgate for a coffee, before making my way on to the E14 rank to start work. It’s my daily routine," he explained. "It usually takes 5 or 6 minutes to grab a coffee and use the loo before moving off to Canary Wharf. I sometimes return there in the evening after work as well. On the day in question, the enforcement camera that guards the entrance recorded me entering the site at 12.13, but the exit camera, for whatever reason, failed to record me leaving Mac’s |
DARYL’S 5 MINUTE COFFEE BREAK IS 9 HOURS! |
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 Daryl with a PCN for a 546 minute coffee at McDonalds |
same smile on his face! "I’ve
got a secret weapon though" he continued while waving the credit
job details print-out in his hand at Call Sign’s
reporter. "This print out proves that I accepted a credit ride at 15.08 from SE1 to SW3, completing the trip at 15.50, so I could not possibly have been in E14 all that time. I’ve been on DaC for two years now and this is just one of the benefits of being a subscriber. This print out is absolute proof that I was not there for all those hours. The parking restrictions do allow for 60 minutes maximum, so if the cameras fail to see you come and go and you cannot positively prove you were not there all that time, you’ve got a real problem because MET Parking Services have photographic evidence to prove you were there!" He finished by saying that he was awaiting the outcome of his appeal, but that his PCN should be a warning to all drivers to be aware of what goes on out there… © Call Sign Magazine MM9 |
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around 5 minutes later - about 12.18. I returned there
after work that evening and lo and behold, the entrance camera
failed to spot me going in, but the exit camera did record me
leaving the site at 21.19. So it looked like I had been parked
there for... 546 minutes, yes, 9 hours and six minutes!" Daryl grinned as he showed us the PCN while carefully checking the times on the document that MET Parking Services, the parking contractor, had sent him. "And my family thought I was out working," he said with the |
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Wedding bells for a DaC daughter! |
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The Hertfordshire countryside
recently rang out to the happy peels of wedding bells when the
youngest daughter of Dial-a-Cab driver David Burnetts (S43)
and his wife Maureen said I do. At that moment,
Ilona Burnetts instantly became Mrs Ilona Duce! It
wasn’t an instant courtship though, as Ilona and new hubby Tom
had known each other for some time before the usually shy Tom
summoned up enough courage to pose the all important question –
no, not what the waiting time at Heathrow was! For the Burnetts family it was a double celebration, as Ilona had graduated with a teaching degree just a few weeks before the wedding, making her parents especially proud of her achievement. With her new husband also a schoolteacher, the Duce family motto could well be education, education, education - echoing the phrase of a former politician! Call Sign’s fashion reporter described the bride’s dress as ivory white silk with a fitted bodice and full-length skirt. Chief bridesmaid Alexis - Ilona’s elder sister – was close by making sure no one trod on the beautiful bride’s long dress train, while elder brother Matthew was Tom’s Best Man. We wish the newlyweds all the best for their future together and extend our congratulations to both sets of parents - Maureen and David Burnetts together with Ann and Roger Duce. © Call Sign Magazine MM9 |
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