Parking Tickets Gone Mad!

[ChrisWren]

Islington Council issued a parking ticket to one of its own vehicles. The department receiving the ticket disputed the validity of the Penalty Charge Notice and appealed against the fine. The council declined the appeal so the department took the case to the Parking Adjudicator. At this stage, the council submitted no evidence so the ticket was cancelled. The department that appealed the ticket then applied to have their costs reimbursed. The bewildered Adjudicator did not award costs, saying: “The legal status of the two parties in this appeal amounted to one and the same.”
Islington is not the only council that has pursued itself at the Parking Adjudicator. The Royal Borough of Kingston also issued a parking ticket against a vehicle it had hired – the council not only pursued itself at the Parking Adjudicator, but won its case and had to pay itself the parking ticket!

[Woody]

Has the world gone mad?

I did hear this one:
Picture the scene: You're a bus driver. You're driving your bus. You see a queue of people waiting for you at a bus stop. You pull over to pick them up. So far, so good. But sadly, not everyone wants to buy a ticket. This chap in the queue wants to give you one instead...
This was the ridiculous scene that greeted Manchester bus driver Chris O'Mahony, when he stopped his number 77 bus to let people on. He and his passengers looked on in absolute disbelief as the Manchester City Council parking attendant joined the queue to prepare the parking ticket, deposited the £40 notice and then walked away.

The bus driver's crime? Parking in a restricted area.

The attendant said he'd been told to issue tickets to buses that park. Manchester City Council bosses cancelled the ticket and ordered the warden to be retrained (hopefully, as something other than a traffic warden)