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18-08-2008, 10:47 AM
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Crashed car gets parking fine
A motorist was given a £50 ticket for bad parking when her car was shunted into a tree by another driver.
Joanne Billington was fined by an overzealous traffic warden after her Ford Ka, which she'd left parked, was hit by another driver. "I was absolutely devastated," the 27-year-old told Metro. "I just couldn't believe what had happened." "It was obvious the car had been crashed into but I still got a fine. It's unbelievable that the attendant had the gall to issue one." Amazingly, despite the front end of the car being in the bushes, the traffic warden claimed he thought it had been parked that way. "Nobody parks their car like that,'" added Ms Billington, from Halifax. An Oldham Council spokesman said the penalty had since been written off. "At the time of the incident the attendant did not know that the vehicle had been forced out of the bay," he said. Stories like this make me mad 
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19-08-2008, 03:15 AM
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I don't know about in the UK but there has been quite a bit of controversy in Oz in regards to local councils giving parking officers daily KPI's to achieve. It has resulted in many ridiculous fines because they have to issue so many or face losing their jobs
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19-08-2008, 08:23 AM
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Here's a newspaper article from South Africa from 2003...
Unfortunately it's in Afrikaans however the section of the traffic fine included in the article is in English... The gist of the story is that the motorist was pulled over and a roadworthiness test was performed on his car... He was then fined R200-00 because his Reverse lights only worked when his car was in reverse gear... The level of intelligence of our Policemen and Women 
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19-08-2008, 09:23 AM
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Well fancy that - your reverse lights only working when you were reversing! Great stuff!!
 You got to love traffic cops!
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