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Council Lifts Legally
Parked Car. Paints No Parking. Tows Car. Denies Towing It For
3 Weeks. Charges $3.3K Fine For Not Paying Fine Quickly
Woman suffers injury from a bad
parking break
Lambeth
council workers in the UK lifted Ruth Ducker's Volkswagen Golf, where
it was legally parked, in a spot that had always been a legal parking
spot, painted no parking lines underneath it, placed the car back down
and then later came and towed it away for being illegally parked!
And
then it gets dumb.
Ms.
Ducker had no idea where her car had gone. The council denied for 3
weeks any knowledge of having had it towed. When finally realizing
they had taken it, they charged her a $1,200 penalty for waiting over 3
weeks to pay the fine! The fine grew to about $3.3K before a
member of Parliament intervened on her behalf and the fines were
dropped.
Residents
were not warned about the change ahead of time.
The
council says it was a communication issue as in not understanding the
common advice, "don't act like a bunch of schmucks."
Daily
Mail (UK) 28-May-09
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