Sue confronted the warden shortly after discovering the fine when she returned to the car in Leek, Staffordshire on Wednesday, 'I showed him the ticket and he said he had not been able to see it because of the snow, I was absolutely livid, He said he was not able to touch the car,' the warden decided that health and safety rules prevented him wiping the flakes away to check for a ticket because he could be accused of scratching the windscreen, the mother-of-two will now have to go through the appeals procedure against the £50 penalty - at a cost to the council taxpayer,
in what many would consider to be the understatement of the year one local trader commented that they feared over-zealous parking wardens will deter customers from shopping in the run-up to Christmas, the trader could be right! well there you have it Health & Safety can strike anywhere!
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