Merewether builder Mark Fricker talks about his parking fine.
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00:00So Mark, a lot of people would have just paid this fine and moved on.
00:03Can you tell us why you're challenging it in court?
00:07My reasons for challenging it in court are Council's job is to educate people and ratepayers
00:13not fine them.
00:14I don't feel that I was directing a bus ingress or egress, I wasn't blocking anything, I was
00:21there for a very short period of time on the footpath whilst I opened a gate.
00:26If it had been a human Council ranger, he might have come and spoken to me, I could
00:31have told him what I was doing.
00:32I'm actually in the photo of the fine and I don't believe that Council should have vehicles
00:38driving around fining people that they don't know about.
00:42Do you feel as though you've had an adequate opportunity to dispute the fine with the Council?
00:47Not really because I was pushed straight on to State revenue, Council didn't really take
00:53any part in the action at all, but if it had been a Council ranger I reckon he would
00:57have let it go because he could see I wasn't blocking a bus zone, I was on the footpath
01:02opening a gate to park my vehicle to where it is now.