Road sweeper given parking ticket for picking up broken bottle

A road cleaner was given a £70 parking ticket for stopping his sweeping machine for a minute to pick up a broken bottle.

Justin Wickett, 22, stopped to pick up the jagged glass thinking someone could step on it and hurt themselves.

In doing so, he parked his road sweeper for some 60 seconds in a vacant disabled parking bay in St Austell, Cornwall.



But in that time a council parking attendant spotted the vehicle and wrote out a £70 parking ticket.

Mr Wickett said: "I explained I was moving the glass because someone could cut themselves but he was only interested in my machine.

"I was not blocking anyone or causing an obstruction. Obviously he wasn't in the Christmas spirit." Ironically, both ultimately work for Cornwall Council, although Mr Wickett does so through a contracted company.