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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, get involved in the show anywhere, anytime, and you
could score one hundred bucks to my jewelry shop, Jury Remodeling,
and it's very best. To my jewelry shop, Nubby Beach.
It's Gaily and Emily Jade for one h two nine
hot tomato. We're at fifteen degrees right now in Miami.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
What the Hotter is the front page of the Gold
Coast bulletin today, and the headline reads market goers fume
as dozens stung despite free parking. Now the Hotter markets
on Sunday are one of the best on the Gold Coast.
People go for the egg rolls. The lineup for that
stall is huge. You can get all your fresh produce
and all that kind of stuff, and then it's just
a great place if it's a beautiful, fine day to
(00:34):
grab some breakfast. They often put on music and you
can sit and eat from any of the stalls. Dog
people do take their dogs, but they're all on lead.
And then people go and sit by the lake there,
kids swim on a beautiful day. It's the best. It's
the greatest vibe. It feels really gc. But I thought
this only sort of happened to us, and it ruined
(00:54):
our experience a couple of weeks ago when we learn
our lesson. So all of the signs around hot Us
free parking, free parking for four hours, so so many
people do this. You get there, you park, you know
you're only going to be there for maybe an hour
to get your groceries, grab an egg roll and go.
But the parking inspectors have been working there on a Sunday,
and if you don't go and register your car, you
(01:17):
get a fine.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
But it tells you it's free parking.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It says free parking everywhere, so people just go, oh yeah,
but you have to register your car in the boxes
with your license plate, and then you can go and
park for four hours for free, of course, and then
after that it builds you with something. I don't know
how it works. I've never parked longer than four hours there,
to be honest, but we went back to our car.
(01:41):
We saw one hundred and eight dollar fine and it
just like we were just so dirty. Whole family was
dirty because we had only been there for about an
hour and a bit.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I want people to go there, that's right.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And then there were people with tickets all over and honestly,
just like we were talking about the dog off leaf
sherrier and on that person going there's a dog of
its lead, there's a dog of its lead. I wanted
to go round to the markets and say, if you
haven't put your number plate and you're going to get
a fine, you're going to get a fine. So to
see that it's in the paper today, residents saying that
it's a sneaky cash grab. Dozens on last Sunday got
(02:13):
this one hundred and eight dollar fine, and mine was
a few weeks ago. Learnt my lesson, always put the
number plate in now, But how often are they making
this money every Sunday of people who see free parking
and think, probably it's a Sunday, it's free parking.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I totally would or they don't know. I wouldn't know
to punching. But the thing is they don't have to
do that. It's not like they have to all. We
better put the numbers into the machines otherwise they stop working,
you know what I mean, for another day.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, so they can just stop it. They don't even
need to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And I'm sure the markets, the people who run the
markets must be annoyed by it as well, because it
could potentially stop people going and also cost of living
at the moment to have to pay one hundred and
eight dollar fine for free parking if you haven't parked
over that four hours and I don't know how you'd
prove it and all that kind of stuff. I mean.
I now have like the easy Parking on the app,
(03:04):
which I've talked about on air, the easy park app.
But even though it's free parking, to use the app,
you have to pay a fee. So you don't want
to use the easy Parking in the free parking zones
that you have to register in because you still have
to pay the fee for using the free parking app. Outrageous, right,
So then it's not free parking because you've paid like
the seventy eight cents for the fee. So you're in
(03:28):
a rock and a hard place if you don't remember
or you don't know to put your number plate into
the parking boxes.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
So it's a good heads up to start with what
you're saying.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
This is it. Yeah, this is a community service announcement.
It is free parking, but you have to put your
number plate in. But I'd like to open up the phones.
Have you been caught at the markets with this or
anywhere else? And did you do anything with the ticket
because I am able to go to council and go,
Hang on a minute, I wasn't there for four hours.
I can prove it. You've said there's free parking. So
(03:57):
what are the laws around this? If you've said there
free parking for four hours and I was definitely not there,
and I can prove it. Maybe with geo marking or
something with your phone. I don't know. You can do
all these things.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
No instruction saying free parking just put your red Joe in.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well there is, but it's a small print, and ye're there,
you see free parking. You know it's a Sunday, and
off you go, get your groceries, get your egg roll.
I keep talking about egg roll and now I want one,
but you do, and then your whole morn, your beautiful
Sunday morning off, is ruined by a dumb fine which
you shouldn't have to pay because you weren't there over
(04:32):
the four hours.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
By bureaucracy.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Really really it is. So if you could give us
a call, what have you done with this? Did you
get caught? Did it an or you were you a
nutbag like me running around telling everybody who was parking
after me, make sure you put your number bide in.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
She had a megaphone, was standing on the box in
the corner take an event.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
On the drive home, my husband and I were literally
going next week, let's stand there with a sign.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I bet you you don't I didn't.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Two nine. Have you been stung by this? Have you
experienced this? Have you had to fight this? What did
you do? Are you a lawyer? What?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
What can people do about this? Give us a call.
Hey, get involved in the show anywhere, anytime, and you
could score one hundred bucks to my jewelry shop, Jury Remodeling,
and it's very best. To my jewelry shop, Nubby Beach.
It's Gaily and Emily Jade for one h two nine
hot tomato. We're at fifteen degrees right now in Miami.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
What the Hotter is the front page of the Gold
Coast bulletin today, and the headline reads market goers fume
as dozens stung despite free parking. Now the Hotter markets
on Sunday are one of the best on the Gold Coast.
People go for the egg rolls. The lineup for that
stall is huge. You can get all your fresh produce
and all that kind of stuff, and then it's just
a great place if it's a beautiful, fine day to
(00:34):
grab some breakfast. They often put on music and you
can sit and eat from any of the stalls. Dog
people do take their dogs, but they're all on lead.
And then people go and sit by the lake there,
kids swim on a beautiful day. It's the best. It's
the greatest vibe. It feels really gc. But I thought
this only sort of happened to us, and it ruined
(00:54):
our experience a couple of weeks ago when we learn
our lesson. So all of the signs around hot Us
free parking, free parking for four hours, so so many
people do this. You get there, you park, you know
you're only going to be there for maybe an hour
to get your groceries, grab an egg roll and go.
But the parking inspectors have been working there on a Sunday,
and if you don't go and register your car, you
(01:17):
get a fine.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
But it tells you it's free parking.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It says free parking everywhere, so people just go, oh yeah,
but you have to register your car in the boxes
with your license plate, and then you can go and
park for four hours for free, of course, and then
after that it builds you with something. I don't know
how it works. I've never parked longer than four hours there,
to be honest, but we went back to our car.
(01:41):
We saw one hundred and eight dollar fine and it
just like we were just so dirty. Whole family was
dirty because we had only been there for about an
hour and a bit.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I want people to go there, that's right.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And then there were people with tickets all over and honestly,
just like we were talking about the dog off leaf
sherrier and on that person going there's a dog of
its lead, there's a dog of its lead. I wanted
to go round to the markets and say, if you
haven't put your number plate and you're going to get
a fine, you're going to get a fine. So to
see that it's in the paper today, residents saying that
it's a sneaky cash grab. Dozens on last Sunday got
(02:13):
this one hundred and eight dollar fine, and mine was
a few weeks ago. Learnt my lesson, always put the
number plate in now, But how often are they making
this money every Sunday of people who see free parking
and think, probably it's a Sunday, it's free parking.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I totally would or they don't know. I wouldn't know
to punching. But the thing is they don't have to
do that. It's not like they have to all. We
better put the numbers into the machines otherwise they stop working,
you know what I mean, for another day.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, so they can just stop it. They don't even
need to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And I'm sure the markets, the people who run the
markets must be annoyed by it as well, because it
could potentially stop people going and also cost of living
at the moment to have to pay one hundred and
eight dollar fine for free parking if you haven't parked
over that four hours and I don't know how you'd
prove it and all that kind of stuff. I mean.
I now have like the easy Parking on the app,
(03:04):
which I've talked about on air, the easy park app.
But even though it's free parking, to use the app,
you have to pay a fee. So you don't want
to use the easy Parking in the free parking zones
that you have to register in because you still have
to pay the fee for using the free parking app. Outrageous, right,
So then it's not free parking because you've paid like
the seventy eight cents for the fee. So you're in
(03:28):
a rock and a hard place if you don't remember
or you don't know to put your number plate into
the parking boxes.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
So it's a good heads up to start with what
you're saying.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
This is it. Yeah, this is a community service announcement.
It is free parking, but you have to put your
number plate in. But I'd like to open up the phones.
Have you been caught at the markets with this or
anywhere else? And did you do anything with the ticket
because I am able to go to council and go,
Hang on a minute, I wasn't there for four hours.
I can prove it. You've said there's free parking. So
(03:57):
what are the laws around this? If you've said there
free parking for four hours and I was definitely not there,
and I can prove it. Maybe with geo marking or
something with your phone. I don't know. You can do
all these things.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
No instruction saying free parking just put your red Joe in.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well there is, but it's a small print, and ye're there,
you see free parking. You know it's a Sunday, and
off you go, get your groceries, get your egg roll.
I keep talking about egg roll and now I want one,
but you do, and then your whole morn, your beautiful
Sunday morning off, is ruined by a dumb fine which
you shouldn't have to pay because you weren't there over
(04:32):
the four hours.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
By bureaucracy.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Really really it is. So if you could give us
a call, what have you done with this? Did you
get caught? Did it an or you were you a
nutbag like me running around telling everybody who was parking
after me, make sure you put your number bide in.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
She had a megaphone, was standing on the box in
the corner take an event.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
On the drive home, my husband and I were literally
going next week, let's stand there with a sign.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I bet you you don't I didn't.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Two nine. Have you been stung by this? Have you
experienced this? Have you had to fight this? What did
you do? Are you a lawyer? What?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
What can people do about this? Give us a call.
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