Wednesday, Jul 21, 2010
More council waste of taxpayers money
Yahoo: Parking ticket for car with lines painted beneath it
An accountant from Manchester returned to her car after work and found it parked facing the opposite direction, with a fresh set of yellow lines painted underneath.
Accountant Sally Barker had parked her Peugeot 206 CC on Little Quay Street that morning, near her office. There were no yellow lines on the road and no parking restrictions in place.
Posted by mark @ 04:29 PM (1420 views) Add Comment
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1. drewster said...
Relevance to HPC?
2. Crunchy said...
More council waste of taxpayers money
Come, come, this is an investment. Isn't that the reason why we have a police force?
I have said before that Britian is eating itself from within. A fine (no pun intended) example.
3. Adskirockski said...
Mark,
What's your point? How should the council put new yellow lines on a road which constantly has cars parked on it? Come back 20 times until they happen to find it empty?
4. cyril said...
highly dubious article. Why did she take a photo of her car beforehand?
5. rumble said...
What's the cost of hoisting the car vs rescheduling the painting?
6. fubar said...
Sounds like a right tool, maybe angling for a way to sue the cooncil.
From article;
Parking enforcement agency NSL defended the placement of the ticket, which it says was done to prevent another warden issuing a ticket later. It was immediately declared void and wouldn't have led to a fine.
That didn't abate Mrs. Barker's anger, however, who said: “To find out that the council moved my car, without my permission and then placed it on double yellow lines they had just painted is disgraceful. I suggest they close the road prior to putting the restrictions in place.”
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7. charlie brooker said...
One for Esther Rant but not relevant to HPC.co.uk.
8. The Baldman said...
Bigger question why did the local gestao need to paint yellow lines?
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12. mark said...
3. Adskirockski
easy put sign up stating date works will begin and put some cones down..
imagine the cost if damage had been done to car,
all these costs come out of YOUR TAXES PEOPLE..
councils are the biggest wasters of all of our money..
next they will be building daft statues ooh wait they already do that.
RC Butpads
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