The 2-year-old child passenger I was with at the time of the incident has a blue badge. I took them to the park and picked up some conkers, which they wanted to take home. There's a little section in my car where I place the blue badge if needed. I keep two pairs of sunglasses there also. I just chucked the conkers on there as it was the easiest thing to do at the time. Driving back I remembered I was supposed to pick up some milk, so parked in a blue badge space next to the shop and put the correct time on the blue badge time thingy. Because of the conkers the blue badge was partly concealed, but I'm pretty certain I made sure that you could read the vital information if looking from the right angle - he will doubtless have taken a picture from a dodgy angle, but I'm not sure how to get hold of it. Anyone know how to ask Bolton Council for this? I was in the shop not five minutes, and when I came out there was a parking ticket, so this is looking like the most expensive milk I've ever bought. It reads: conravention code 40 "parked in a disabled persons parking place without clearly displaying a valid person badge". This was 29th Sept. It says if I pay within 14 days I get a reduction from £70 to £35. Part of me thinks I should just pay (not that I have a spare £35 kicking about) and part of me thinks that that parking attendant was looking for any excuse to write a ticket. Any thoughts anyone?
