He said: "I saw an old woman fall down and stopped for around 30 to 45 seconds at the most to help her. I went back to my car and there was a parking officer who was giving me a ticket. He must have seen what was happening and that I was helping the old lady. I asked him why he was still giving me the ticket and he said: 'It gives me no great satisfaction to give you this ticket'. Any normal person would have turned a blind eye when they saw why I had stopped as I just got out, helped this old lady to get up and went back to my car."
Drew said that he ripped the ticket up half in the heat of the moment and threw it in the bin, but later retrieved it. "It says that it costs £70 if paid within 28 days of the date that it was issued or £35 if paid early, within 14 days, but it's not the cost that matters, it's the principle of it. I tried to do something good and then something bad happened because of it. I stopped in the disabled bay as it was the nearest place to where the old lady was.
"There was space for about four cars and it was completely empty, so it wasn't like somebody was waiting to use it and I was blocking the space. Under the circumstances, I think it's ridiculous." A spokesperson for Bournemouth Council said that they are not able to comment on individual cases. Margaret Leslie, Operations Manager for Parking Services, said: "Any motorist receiving a fine can appeal against a ticket through the contact details given on their Penalty Charge Notice. We give full consideration into all individual cases and take mitigating circumstances into account."
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It's not so much that the warden issued the ticket, it's that he did so instead of helping the old lady. A public employee who thinks it's more important to penalize members of the public than to help them. What a hero!
And parking wardens wonder why we all hate them.
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