An astonishing story has appeared on the BBC website about parking officials forging the time on photographs in car parks from Lincoln to Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Many supermarket and shopping centre car parks are run by private firms and allow shoppers to park for, say, two hours.
Employees at at least two car parks operated by UK Parking Control (UKPC) have altered the time which is apparently stamped by the recording machine on the photograph of the car to suggest that the car has been parked for more than two hours.
The firm then sent a penalty charge notice to the drivers with a demand for payment and a threat of court action.
In the first case on the BBC website, the shadow of the car barely moved in the alleged two hours. Not since the time of Joshua has anyone experienced the day the sun stood still.
In another case, a neighbouring car has its boot open, and, astonishingly, the same boot of the same car is still up allegedly two hours later.
This is false witness and fraud, and is forbidden by the Lord God Almighty. As the Lord Jesus told the rich young man:
Mark 10:19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
Because a measurement is involved, the scam also involves doing down a neighbour and using false weights and measures, which the Lord specifically legislated against::
Lev 19:35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Deut 25:15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Zech 8:17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
An investigation is now under way. The story will cast all time recordings in parking cases into doubt, so the parking people may well have ruined their own lucrative business.
It may be helpful for readers to remember that a penalty notice from a private firm, however official it looks, cannot be enforced. They have to take you, the motorist, to the county court and prove a loss for that amount, which is difficult for them.
If you have genuinely overstayed your paid parking time, just send the difference by cheque. Otherwise, don’t even reply. It’s largely a mailing exercise anyway, to see how many fall for it. Going to court costs them money and involves risk, so they usually won’t bother.
And give thanks to God that this has come to light, thanks to the stupidity of the parking operators.
Matt 10:26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
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