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Bohemian in Parking Fine Frenzy

Bohemian in Parking Fine Frenzy by Sarah Janes

Linda Willoughby of Michelle Close was stunned to discover she had received a £25 fine for parking in the Pelham Place car park last month.

Whilst she was busy spending hundreds of pounds in Hastings town centre, treating her son Jason who was visiting from Taunton, a tiny puff of wind had entered the vehicle through the sunroof and her light-weight parking ticket (I’m told these extremely light-weight tickets are necessary to be compatible with the eco-friendly, solar-powered ticket dispensing machines we have there) had drifted off the dashboard.

Upon returning to the vehicle – 20 minutes before said ticket was due to expire – they discovered the fine and promptly took it to the council offices over the road where a receptionist explained that if Linda would just take the time to write a short note explaining the circumstances and enclose the zephyrically misplaced ticket, common sense would of course prevail and the fine would be revoked. No such luck.

A council representative explained to me that the contravention of paying and displaying is that a ticket should be paid for and satisfactorily displayed. One must presumably weigh down the ticket with a heavy object (perhaps a candelabra or anvil) if necessary, and ensure no gusts of air can penetrate your carriage.

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