Blame A UFO To Beat A Parking Ticket
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Have you received a parking ticket of late? If you have you may wish to continue reading to discover some of the most unusual reasons that penalised motorists have tried using to get off their parking fine. They range from the odd to the outright daft.
With parking fines in this borough now reaching an astonishing 120 per ticket, you can't blame a motorist for tying their luck you might say. And nevertheless, even if you do have a valid ticket, you can still receive a fine. The council have now introduced a law that gives you a fine for displaying an out of date ticket, even if your valid ticket is next to it on the dash board.
Have you ever seen a UFO whilst driving? If so, take a photo as you may want to try using this as a reason to avoid a motoring offence should you receive one in the future, as this driver did: According to the shocked motorist, he was so engrossed in the spectacle of what he described as a "UFO" that he unintentionally drove into the bus lane and was consequently fined.
Do you find it difficult to distinguish colour? If you do, then I wouldn't try using it as a reason to avoid a motoring fine unless you can provide some evidence. As another wronged motorist stated that they were unable to distinguish colour, and the yellow line they were parked upon was actually green at the time. Needless to say, the fine was eventually paid in full.
A London borough council spokesman has said that the imagination of some UK motorists was "quite impressive". Is it raining outside? If so why don't you just park where you like? According to one motorist you can: "It was raining. I thought I could park anywhere if the weather was bad."
Director of environment and housing at Southwark Council, Gill Davies said: "The imagination of some of these drivers is quite impressive, but UFOs and colour blindness unfortunately do not count as legitimate reasons to overturn a ticket."
Feeling sleepy? Getting the blanket out of the boot and covering your head is a sure-fire way to avoid a motoring offence right? Wrong! As this dopey driver found out, "I was only sleeping in the back of the car. The parking attendant could have asked me to move the car instead of giving me a ticket, although he would not have seen me as I had a blanket over my head."
It's not all parking doom and gloom however, with Westminster City Council stating that some motorists who park illegally in central London could receive written or verbal warnings instead of a 120 fine.
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