Man puts rude note inside penalty notice holder on car parked over two parent-and-child bays

After seeing a car straddling two parent and baby spaces, Mike from Woking in Surrey decided to prank a fellow motorist with a fake parking notice.

 The offending Land Rover Freelander was outside a branch of Tesco in Weybridge, Dorset, on Monday evening

He said: “There were lots of spaces. I just didn’t understand why they’d parked like that, it was just ridiculous.#

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“The note wasn’t meant to be nasty, it was just a spur of the moment thing to highlight the bad parking.

“I’m a rep driving around all the time and it annoys when I can’t get a space because people have parked stupidly."

Mike said he was given a ticket a few years ago" after overstaying by ten minutes. At the time he just ripped the notice off his vehicle, stuck it in the glovebox and forget about it, but when he was in the car park on Monday night he saw the perfect opportunity to use the penalty notice holder.

Mike maintains the note wasn't malicious, adding: “I wrote something short that wasn’t too offensive as I didn’t want to be using all sorts of horrible words.
"I just wanted to shock them into parking sensibly.”

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Mike had spotted the strange parking as he entered the supermarket and 20 minutes later returned to his vehicle and scribbled the note on the back of an envelope in a black marker pen.

After Mike tucked the note inside the yellow wallet and placed it on the car windscreen he went back to his van and waited to see if the car owner would emerge and read it.

The joker added: “I’m 49, so old enough to know better, but hung around afterwards for 20 minutes.
"No-one appeared and I got bored so left.”

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University Allows Students To Pay For Parking Tickets With Food Donations

We came cross this story published on Aprils Fools but it was no joke!

University of Florida President W. Kent Fuchs announced on Twitter that people who had been cited for parking violations on campus over the past year could get amnesty for their ticket by donating food.

"For many years, parking tickets have been a source of contention between the university administration, and our students, staff, faculty, alumni, and visitors," Fuchs begins in the the 38-second video posted by UF's twitter account.

"I am pleased to announced, on this first day of April, that UF will have an amnesty program for parking fines. And today I'm calling on Scott Fox, the director of Transportation and Parking Services to create by tomorrow, a program that will allow the past twelve months of parking tickets to be forgiven."

But, as nearly people found out this week, the UF president wasn't kidding. According a tweet from Fuchs, nearly 2,000 citations were dismissed in exchange for 9,455 canned food donations.

The "Food for Fines" program applied to all unpaid parking citations issued by the University of Florida Office of Transportation and Parking Services between April 1st, 2017 and April 1, 2018.

Donations included toiletries, canned and boxed nonperishable foods, baby formula and diapers. Participants needed to bring in at least five items per citation and there was no limit on the amount of citations that could be forgiven.

The canned food donations will head for the shelves of the school's Field and Fork Pantry.

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