Brit blasts site visitors warden for parking ticket as flood hid double yellow strains
A ‘jobsworth vermin’ site visitors warden has been slammed on-line after they dished out a parking ticket to a enterprise automobile that parked on double yellow strains obscured by floodwaters.
Freya Reynolds, who works on the household enterprise Reynolds Furniture in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, mentioned employees have been left unable to park their vans on their common industrial property spot on Friday, November 4, amid flood chaos throughout the UK.
Common sense, Freya mentioned, dictated that the 4 vans needs to be parked elsewhere and the pavement exterior the flooded warehouse was chosen as a secure vacation spot.
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However, the double yellow strains have been obscured by merky floodwaters and a ‘jobsworth’ site visitors warden opted to dish out a advantageous of £35. The enterprise’ warehouse backs onto Ferring Rife stream, which burst its banks.
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The 31-year-old mentioned the employee ought to have been extra ’empathetic’ given the weird circumstances however after an preliminary attraction Arun District Council retorted that ‘flooding wouldn’t allow parking on double yellow strains’.
Ms Reynolds, from Bognor Regis, mentioned: “It was an unprecedented situation and we didn’t have anywhere else to put it.
“The warehouse had utterly flooded so we could not even get the vans into our yard.
“We did not wish to go away our vans on the highway in a single day however we felt we had no alternative so we needed to go away it exterior the warehouse.
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“The whole road was flooded and the gym over the road was as well, so nobody was going to be using the road. That’s why we didn’t see it as an issue.
“It by no means crossed my thoughts that somebody would give us a parking ticket.”
She added that it was the “final thing you need after a disturbing week”.
Arun District Council eventually agreed to cancel the fine after being contacted by journalists. However, they say the penalty was issued correctly but “given the acute circumstances’ they’ll write off the debt ‘as a gesture of goodwill”.
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