Driver Blames UFO To Get Off Paying A Parking Fine
Are you one of the many UK motorists that believe they have been the victim of an unfair motoring charge? If you are currently nodding your head, then don’t despair, try using one of these genuine explanations given to one London borough council in the hope, albeit slim, that you may be able to overturn your motoring conviction.
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 The council have now introduced a law that gives you a fine for displaying an out of date ticket, even if your valid ticket is next to it on the dash board.
One motorist issued with a parking fine tried to blame spotting a UFO for his failure to pay his fine, a south London council has revealed. According to the driver, he was so shaken up by what he saw in front of him, he drove into a bus lane and was unduly fined.
Are you colour blind? If so you may want to try this one; another unjustifiably fined motorist stated that they were unable to distinguish colour, and the yellow line they were parked upon was actually green at the time.
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.”
One of the more amusing reasons for non payment of a parking fine by a London motorist was “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.”
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.”
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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