Did The Traffic Warden Troll The Student?

Most of us will be familliar with that feeling as we race back to our car chanting "please don't let me have got a ticket" in our heads over and over having realised that we overstayed our ticket, or on the one day we took a risk because we had no change for the meter.

Finding a parking ticket on your windscreen is a frustrating experience, even if you know you’re in the wrong.

This driver even left a hastily-scrawled handwritten note pleading not to get a ticket. The driver, believed to be a student at the University of Georgia in the US, wrote: ‘Had to park here, very late for test. Please don’t ticket me.’

Source: Reddit

You can sense the desperation – ‘please’ is underlined twice, despite their politeness, the traffic warden failed to grant their request, but also if this image is to be believed failed to show any sympathy whatsoever.

A letter placed by the University of Georgia’s parking services next to the student’s note has its own handwritten message: ‘Hope you failed.’

Of course, there’s no way of knowing if it was the traffic warden who wrote ‘hope you failed’ in the image, which was posted on Reddit.

Even if the ‘warden’s message’ was staged, it just goes to show that not even a polite note will stop you from getting a ticket.

Driver wakes up to £110 parking ticket after council paint disabled bay AROUND his car overnight

Image: SWNS.com

When Matt Armstrong found his car parked in a disabled bay outside his home, he assumed he was the victim of an elaborate prank - because it wasn't there the night before.

Matt had parked his car lawfully on the road outside his south London home before bed, so was stunned to find Lambeth Council had painted the bay around his Renault Clio overnight.

Matt failed to see the funny side as he had been slapped with a whopping £110 fine due to the car being parked illegally.

The bay had been requested for Matt's neighbours husband more than two years previously — unfortunately he died earlier this year and she had called Lambeth council several times to cancel.

He said: "They put in this disabled bay which no one needs, painted it under my back wheels and then gave me a parking ticket.

"What can I do but pay the fine and hope to repeal it. If you don’t pay you get clamped or towed away"

Lambeth council confirmed Mr Armstrong’s fine had been cancelled after the authority was contacted by the Evening Standard.

A spokeswoman said: "We’ll cancel the fixed penalty notice and are investigating why there was some confusion around the marking of the disabled bays."

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