A traffic warden issued a £35 ticket to an 82-year-old sufferer of Parkinson's disease, who was asleep in a car, because her disabled parking disc was upside down.
The car was legally parked in a disabled parking bay when Jean Raine felt unwell and took a rest.
While she was sleeping a parking warden noticed that her disabled parking disc was the wrong way up but rather than wake her to explain he simply stuck the penalty notice on her windscreen.
"I cannot understand why the parking attendant didn't wake me up. I wouldn't have got a ticket then," said Miss Raine, of Burton-in-Kendal, who was on a shopping trip in Kendal, Cumbria.
"He must have been on tip toes – so quiet that he didn't disturb me."
An appeal to the local council was rejected.
(Telegraph)
03/05/08 @ 10:22