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Traffic Wardens Dirty Tricks

Victoria AnnandVictoria Annand got a £30 fine because she took SEVEN minutes to get a car park ticket. Victoria could not get to the machine immediately because she had to take daughter Jessica, aged two, out of her car and get her into her coat. She then assembled the tot’s pram and comforted her when she began to cry. She had no idea that two wardens were timing her as she waited at the machine for other drivers to pay for their tickets.

Victoria then returned to her car to find the £30 penalty and was told the time limit for getting a ticket is five minutes. She said, “I couldn’t believe it. One of the attendants was like a little Hitler. There were no signs saying there were any time limits.” Care assistant Victoria appealed to council chiefs in Birkenhead, Merseyside whrer a Wirral council spokesman said, “On occasion parking tickets can be issued mistakenly. There is a fair appeals procedure.”

Traffic wardens have TRIPLED the number of parking tickets they hand out since bosses launched a competition to win a new car. Private parking firm NCP will present a Vauxhall Corsa to the warden who dishes out the most £50 fines before December. Insiders say wardens keen to win the £12,000 motor are using “dirty tricks” to push up their figures. NCP are running the contest in London, where they provide 250 wardens for Westminster City Council. As an added bonus the prize car is LPG fuelled, which means its new warden owner will not have to pay London’s £5 daily congestion charge. Second prize is a £1,500 holiday voucher. Third prize is an £800 28in widescreen TV.

There are also monthly bonus prizes of Argos vouchers valued between £100 and £250. Delighted wardens call the competition the Champions League — and bosses post up a weekly table. But one angry attendant blasted, “On average, wardens doing their job properly issue 50 to 80 tickets in a week. Many are now racking up 200-plus. They are going nuts and will pull any stunt to stick a ticket on your car. They issue a ticket even if you have a pay and display sticker on the car. They claim it’s not clearly displayed and it’s your word against theirs. Many even fabricate

Illegally ParkedParking attendants dish out tickets — while their van sits with all four wheels on the pavement. Angry witnesses told how it blocked the path for ten minutes while a warden, ringed, booked a car with just two wheels on the kerb. Plymouth City Council said the van was exempt as there was nowhere else to park.


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