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A person was left baffled after he was issued two fines for allegedly parking his Audi in a disabled bay that was painted round it.
The London-based Afrobeats artist Silvastone took to social media to share the footage of the incident, which occurred in a residential space in Croydon, south London.
He mentioned it was ‘insanity’ that staff from Croydon Council painted disabled bay markings round his already parked automobile – for him to then be issued the penalties.
In CCTV footage of the incident, which passed off on November 17, the motive force’s black Audi convertible is seen parked by the pavement.
A employee wearing a tough hat and hi-vis clothes walks subsequent to a Freeway Upkeep truck with the phrases ‘line portray’ on the rear.
He goes round to the again of the automobile and seems to take measurements – then walks one tempo at a time previous the Audi, strains up with a drain subsequent to the pavement and marks a single white line on the street.
The employee seems so as to add additional street markings across the automobile.
The video cuts to footage, filmed a number of days later, of a site visitors warden who takes pictures of the car.
Silvastone mentioned within the video that the identical girl got here again the subsequent day to challenge a second wonderful, whereas the ticket allegedly from the day gone by might be seen on the windshield of his automobile.
He mentioned: ‘So guys, think about: I park my automobile and it’s not in any type of disabled bay or restricted parking as you’ll be able to see. There’s no yellow line.
‘I’m pondering I’m secure, I can journey, my automobile’s good. Lo and behold some insanity is about to occur.
‘On my little digital camera I’ve acquired, they’re making a disabled bay round my automobile. Mad!
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‘After which now you’ve got a site visitors warden. She’s determined to provide me a ticket.
‘I’m pondering “what sort of insanity is that this?” as a result of I by no means put my automobile contained in the disabled bay.
‘So Croydon Council, I don’t know what you guys are on. Anyway, the subsequent day the woman [traffic warden] is again.’
He added: ‘This isn’t on. This isn’t truthful. Clearly there’s no communication, you guys [the council] are simply operating it nevertheless you need in an effort to make revenue.
‘It sort of feels like they’re bullying – ’trigger how are you going to do that?’
Because the video reveals the site visitors warden taking footage of his automobile, Silvastone mentioned: ‘There she goes… giving me a ticket for being in a disabled bay that I by no means put myself in…
‘This ain’t truthful, that is absurd. My second ticket, bang, slapping it on the window.’
He insisted he was ‘parked legally’, including that Croydon Council ‘must be held accountable for this as a result of there’s no communication and also you’re there, busy giving tickets and simply elevating blood stress’.
4 parking tickets have been issued between November 22 and 26, the council mentioned.
A spokesperson for Croydon Council informed Metro: ‘Our street markings contractor painted strains for a brand new disabled bay on November 17 in response to a request from a resident.
‘The contractor painted round a automobile, as is normal apply, in any other case they must await the area to be free, which can have taken weeks.
‘The contractor took an image of the automobile, so we knew to not give the proprietor a wonderful.
‘Sadly one among our parking attendants was not knowledgeable and issued parking tickets.
‘Nevertheless, these weren’t processed into fines as a result of we had a word on the system from our contractor.
‘The tickets have been cancelled every week earlier than the video was uploaded to social media, and we now have apologised for the confusion.
‘It’s unacceptable that our parking attendant has acquired verbal abuse on-line.
‘We ask that any residents with considerations ought to contact the [council] instantly and never abuse any member of employees finishing up their duties.’
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