I got a parking ticket after I parked in a disabled spot whilst out for a meal and it’s not something I would normally do but on this occasion the car park was full and it was getting late and none of the six disabled spaces had been used so common sense kicked in and I enjoyed the meal only to return to find I had a parking ticket from OPC.

OPCServices Parking consultancy (Pirates) have the registered address of The Studio, St Nicholas Close, Elstree, Hertfordshire WD6 3EW so any correspondents with them should be addressed to that address and not the postal address PO Box 956, St Albans AL1 9HJ and it’s worth using registered post so that OPService Parking can not claim to have not received any disputes to parking fines or better still send them a copy of your dispute to enquiries@observices.co.uk. The company registration number is 3182298 but I have been unable to find the address of the company directors (Please let me have them if you can get them). OPC sales department can also be contacted on Tel 0845 130 4230 Fax 0845 130 5430

Please note that a private parking ticket is issued under a breach of contract and it is the driver who is libel for any breach of contract and not the registered keeper of the car and the keeper is under no obligation to disclose who the driver was at the time of the alleged breach of contract so it’s a good job my other half owns the car.

I advise anyone that receives a private parking ticket to cut out the monkey and go after the organ grinder who allow these unscrupulous thugs to operate on their premises and point out to these corporations that we as consumers refuse to be treated like cattle and milked.

In my case the owner of the car park turned out to be the Norwich Union so remember that the next time your insurance comes up for renewal and boycott the Norwich Union.

Due to the actions of these thugs the Harvesters Restaurant at the Roaring Meg retail park in Stevenage have been deprived of future income from me and I am in the process of contacting any other company that use the service of OPCServices to avoid them as they are turning customers away and I will also be naming and shaming so if you have any names then please pass them on to me at Avenger0-0-7@Mail.com (take out the dashes)

It’s your public duty to stand up to these thugs as running away will only make maters worse in the long term and being a coward and letting others do the work is not very public spirited.

IT turns out that the Norwich Union does not own the property and it is strange that the Stevenage council is giving out false information so I will be looking to see if the director of OPC provides any service to the local council and from what I’ve been reading I would be surprised if this was not the case.

However good news I did manage to find out who the director was and it a Mr Douglas Harris but the only address i could get for him was 60 COMPTON AVENUE, LUTON, BEDFORDSHIRE, LU4 9AZ but this is yet another hiding address much like his P.O Box address but i also discovered he own about 18 other companies including W. SMYTHE DEBT RECOVERY LIMITED who seem to be upsetting a lot of people and since some of his staff look like unemployed door bouncers I would not be surprised to see them working the doors in other venues around the city.

Sincere apologies to the Norwich Union and I did send an email to enquiries@observices.co.uk. Saying that I understood the NU was the owner of the car park and they did not dispute this statement so I took it as gospel.