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Wed, Mar 17, 2010
The New Paper
Other cars also illegally parked, why pick mine?
HE drives a car that costs more than $200,000 brand new - and is in a tizzy over a $30 parking fine.
Mr Wilson Ang, 23, feels he may have been unfairly targeted because of his car, a Mercedes-Benz SLK convertible.
He was given a ticket for not displaying a parking coupon. He alleged that other illegally-parked cars behind him weren't fined.
Not only has he refused to pay the fine, he has written to the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) with an ultimatum:
Respond to me within three days or "I will proceed to make the matter open to the public". He later sent a copy of the e-mail, dated 28 Feb, to The New Paper, saying the URA had not responded.
He wrote in it: "Are your URA staff biased over drivers with expensive sports car (sic)?"
Mr Ang, an assistant project manager at a construction company, had parked his black Mercedes in a lot along Circular Road, near Boat Quay, at 8.10pm on 28Feb.
He was there to buy dinner for his wife at a nearby Chinese restaurant.
He returned 10 minutes later to find he had been given a ticket for not displaying a coupon.
He told The New Paper: "I looked around at the other cars along the road and hardly any of them had displayed parking coupons.
"My car was the only one in the entire row of cars which had a ticket on it."
Mr Ang claimed that his car was the first in the row at the time.
He said: "I came out of the restaurant and the entire street was dead quiet. There wasn't a single person in sight.
"I don't understand why the parking attendant chose to give only me a ticket when there were so many others who had not displayed a parking coupon."
He said that because he feels "singled out", he does not want to pay the $30 fine.
Another luxury car
"I don't know if it's because I was driving a nice car. If so, I don't understand why the luxury SUV behind my car didn't get a ticket. It costs about the same."
Mr Ang said he paid about $160,000 for the second-hand, one-year-old car two months ago. Why refuse to take responsibility when he is clearly in the wrong?
Said Mr Ang: "It's not that I'm not aware that I have broken the rules. I just don't feel that the authorities should be biased when they are issuing tickets.
"I wouldn't have a problem with paying the fine if everybody else who parked without a coupon received a ticket too."
http://www.asiaone.com/Motoring/Drivers/Others/Story/A1Story20100315-204727.html
>> ASIAONE / MOTORING / DRIVERS / OTHERS / STORY
Wed, Mar 17, 2010
The New Paper
Other cars also illegally parked, why pick mine?
HE drives a car that costs more than $200,000 brand new - and is in a tizzy over a $30 parking fine.
Mr Wilson Ang, 23, feels he may have been unfairly targeted because of his car, a Mercedes-Benz SLK convertible.
He was given a ticket for not displaying a parking coupon. He alleged that other illegally-parked cars behind him weren't fined.
Not only has he refused to pay the fine, he has written to the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) with an ultimatum:
Respond to me within three days or "I will proceed to make the matter open to the public". He later sent a copy of the e-mail, dated 28 Feb, to The New Paper, saying the URA had not responded.
He wrote in it: "Are your URA staff biased over drivers with expensive sports car (sic)?"
Mr Ang, an assistant project manager at a construction company, had parked his black Mercedes in a lot along Circular Road, near Boat Quay, at 8.10pm on 28Feb.
He was there to buy dinner for his wife at a nearby Chinese restaurant.
He returned 10 minutes later to find he had been given a ticket for not displaying a coupon.
He told The New Paper: "I looked around at the other cars along the road and hardly any of them had displayed parking coupons.
"My car was the only one in the entire row of cars which had a ticket on it."
Mr Ang claimed that his car was the first in the row at the time.
He said: "I came out of the restaurant and the entire street was dead quiet. There wasn't a single person in sight.
"I don't understand why the parking attendant chose to give only me a ticket when there were so many others who had not displayed a parking coupon."
He said that because he feels "singled out", he does not want to pay the $30 fine.
Another luxury car
"I don't know if it's because I was driving a nice car. If so, I don't understand why the luxury SUV behind my car didn't get a ticket. It costs about the same."
Mr Ang said he paid about $160,000 for the second-hand, one-year-old car two months ago. Why refuse to take responsibility when he is clearly in the wrong?
Said Mr Ang: "It's not that I'm not aware that I have broken the rules. I just don't feel that the authorities should be biased when they are issuing tickets.
"I wouldn't have a problem with paying the fine if everybody else who parked without a coupon received a ticket too."
