All the rage on the road

BBC News is doing a piece on rampant fining by the authorities based on plain wrong rules and signage.

The incredible suggestion is that by paying up you are admitting guilt, so no restitution is necessary.

This is a very perverse, broken society we live in.

Having twice fought, and won, incorrectly imposed road penalty impositions, I remain amazed and disgusted that, every challenge on my part was met with ever-increasing fines and threats as a consequence, mainly from unthinking robot systems.

Yet upon vindication, all that happened to the council was that they were simply required to waive the initial, flawed demand.

There is NO incentive for them not to crank up the pressure as they have nothing to lose.

This is no more and no less than officially-endorsed extortion, and I believe continues to this day.

Being proven in the right should allow the road user at the very lest to enjoy the same level of escalating compensation as the authorities, which will certainly make them ensure their case is valid rather than acting like the Mob.

Addendum:

When asked about refunding blatant abuses of the illegal fining system, the LA spokesperson's best defence, amongst a ton of fudge and claims that no one knows the law, even the adjudicators, is that 'in serious cases, councils may consider reviewing refunds'. No way to run a country. Also, as I have written...

I just listened to the interview with yet another example of what gets paid, by us, to serve... us.

In counter to his gob-smacking claim on legal precedent to keep the proceeds of illegal fines, is this LA spokesperson really saying that should we the public transgress, just by a little bit, any of the myriad rules and regs he and his ilk trot out almost hourly, we can now claim the law does not apply and escape the consequences? I'll take that deal.

The law is now really an ass. Now being enforced by jackals. And protected, it seems, by ostriches.