Driver Blames UFO To Get Off Paying A Parking Fine
Are you one of the many thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of drivers that has received a parking fine? If your answer is yes, than all is not lost, continue reading to pick up some amusing explanations as to why you should not have to pay your parking fine. These ‘reasons’ have genuinely been submitted to the London council of Southwark.
With the average cost of a parking ticket in or around London now topping a whopping 120, have to admire these unlucky motorists for trying their hand. Anyway, just what is the point of having a valid ticket when the council have now introduced a law for displaying more than one ticket in your car, even if one of these tickets is valid?
One of the more inventive motorists, trying to avoid a fine for driving in a bus lane came up with a UFO for his failure to pay his fine. The driver was so captivated by what he described as a UFO he inadvertently drove into the bus lane and was subsequently 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 spokesperson for the London borough for Southwark Council said that the imagination of some motorists was “quite impressive”. Some of the other reasons submitted by desperate motorists include “It was raining. I thought I could park anywhere if the weather was bad.” Another fined driver stated: “I don’t know what the yellow lines mean.”
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.”
Some motorists who park illegally in central London could receive written or verbal warnings instead of a 120 fine, Westminster City Council has said.
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