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PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 17:09 
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UK Cars Yahoo - Orlando Parfitt wrote:
To pick up a parking fine, you'd assume the offending vehicle would actually have to be parked.

Christopher Barham, from Essex, found out differently when he was fined £110 even though his car was stuck in a traffic jam.

His car was stuck in gridlock outside Gidea Park station in Romford, Essex. With the traffic going nowhere, his son got out to go to the station.

Days later he was sent the fine, along with a CCTV photo taken from a council camera. The picture clearly showed moving traffic in front of Mr Barnham's car.

Speaking to The Daily Mail, Mr. Barnham said: “It's entrapment. It is laughable that a passenger can't get out of the car in stationary traffic.
“It was clear from the picture that there was a line of traffic in front of me, like there is there every morning.
“It is always stop-start traffic on that road and from the picture you can make out that the cars in front have their brake lights on.
“As far as I'm concerned I was prepared to go to prison instead of paying it.”

Luckily for Mr Barnham, Havering Council reviewed the incident and cancelled the penalty instead.

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 00:14 
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How absolutely ridiculous ! For the Council to have issued the ticket in the first place ought to be thoroughly investigated and sorted out that it never re-occurs!
To have issued it required someone to notice it, consider it, decide to act and gather the info and send it. During this process no one decided that it was possibly stupid never mind 'just, sensible or fair! They should be thoroughly embarrassed!

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