Traffic wardens really did reach a new low as they slapped a £60 parking penalty on a car which had been involved in a collision.
The car, seen with its windscreen smashed, was given a fine because it was stopped on double yellow lines in Manchester city centre on Tuesday.
A photo displays a black Volkswagen parked in Deansgate with damage to its exterior.
A yellow fixed penalty notice (FPN) can be spotted tucked behind a windscreen wiper, while a warden seems to be arguing with a woman nearby.
Only a few feet away from them stands a policeman who attempts to slow traffic.
The incident stands out in a crowded list of strange happenings involving double yellow lines over the summer.
In June, a car was lifted by a tow truck before yellow lines appeared to be painted underneath in Norwood, south London, with the angry motorist saying he was then fined for parking illegally.
Bus driver James Dee, 43, says he drove to work as usual, parking his red Vauxhall Zafira before starting his shift at a nearby bus depot. He insists that there were no lines or restrictions on the road when he parked. But when he returned to his vehicle that evening on Beadman Street, he was baffled to find it facing the opposite direction with double yellow lines under his back wheel and a parking ticket attached to it.
CCTV published in a newspaper outlet last night seems to demonstrate how the incident unfolded.
Mr Dee said that he couldn’t believe it. Not only did the council move his car to paint the lines, but they then had the cheek to slap on a parking ticket, which he’s now having to appeal. He said that he’s absolutely fuming and that he’s not paying a penny.
He said that where he left his car there were no lines whatsoever, but that when he came back in the evening at about 8.30 pm, his car was facing the opposite way to how he’d parked it. There were double yellow lines underneath his back wheel and a ticket on his window.
Meanwhile, in July, Edinburgh residents were left confused after tiny double yellow lines, measuring just 30cm long were painted on their residential road when a council installed a new cycle path.
There must be criteria for employment of a traffic warden, probably one bereft of compassion, bereft of common sense and bereft of a brain.
On the upside. Imagine how crime would decline if parking wardens took over from the police. They would be everywhere, hanging around shops to catch thieves, outside tube stations to catch mobile phone snatchers, outside homes to catch burglars and near walls and fences to catch graffiti idiots. But how many of those would be innocent bystanders as well?
Traffic wardens clearly don’t have a brain cell between them because a traffic warden on duty in a popular coastal town slapped a parking ticket on an ambulance attending an emergency. The warden was dubbed a ‘plonker’ while other residents called the act ‘disgusting and ‘an absolute outrage’.
Imagine the stress of having an accident in your car and then having to appeal a ticket. This creates undue stress and makes an already bad situation even worse.
Give a moron a uniform and you still have a moron but in uniform. Let’s face it, traffic wardens are not employed for their intellectual prowess.
However, the fact that the police officer said nothing to stop the traffic warden speaks volumes.
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