

Nasser Khan left his car in what he was sure was an unmarked section of road. He was
understandably bemused to return the next morning only to find yellow lines beneath his car and a ticket for illegal parking on his windscreen.
CCTV footage showed workmen crouching beneath the car to paint in the lines, whilst a traffic warden waited to write the ticket.
It appears that the machinery used to paint the lines damaged the tyres on Mr Khan's car, which were then declared unroadworthy by a local garage. Salford City Council have quashed the ticket, but refuse to pay for damages to his car.
A witness to the odd event, who works in a neighbouring building, said:
"We saw a group of workmen and two traffic wardens surround the car for several minutes. One of the workmen came back and crouched under the car to paint the yellow line, and then the traffic warden issued the ticket. A friend of mine caught the whole thing on his mobile phone as we thought the driver might need evidence to contest the ticket."
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I was in a large restricted parking lot where I worked. I had gotten in late and parked in the far corner of a pretty full lot. When I came out my car was in a triangular area that had been marked as "No Parking" with a sign, cones and temporary tape.
I remember thinking how was I to get out of the area without ruining the tape. Then I got to my car and saw a parking ticket!! I appealed and got rid of the ticket but only after a long conversation with the person in charge of tickets (they at first assured me that my story "could not have happened" and said they normally require photographic evidence to waive tickets). After insisting to the stories' absurd truth, they finally relented thankfully.
Once I got a ticket on campus because my meter ran out, but it didn't actually run out. It was broken, but didn't yet have an out of order sign on it. I tried contesting it and was told that I should have noticed that it was broken when I put the money in it. I ended up still having to pay for that one.
I actually got a parking ticket today on campus for parking in an area where I can legally park. I have a parking pass that lets me park there and I've done it every single day this year and last year. I'm going to try to contest it, but I bet they're going to make some excuse saying I didn't have the pass in plain view or something.
I hate campus traffic police.
The driver of this car was parking in a section of road that was clearly marked (except for the 20 feet or so he parked alongside) as a no parking zone. So, they did what only a clueless government agency could do....
I don't see how they could have damaged his car painting lines though...
The ticket should be quashed anddamages paid.
He said he was amazed how often the person wouldn't check the ticket and end up paying his fine.
The lesson from that is check the ticket!