Sue Cooke braved the weather to go shopping last week, due to the ice and snow she paid for plenty of time in the car park, whilst inside the store it started to snow, so hard in fact it covered the windscreen of her car, bring into the scene one of Staffordshire Moorlands District Council's traffic wardens, a dutiful officer no doubt, well he must have been as he issued a parking fine with out removing the snow on Sue's car, carefully prising the now frozen windscreen wiper off the glass he placed the ticket under it and walked away with the warm comforting glow of a job well done,
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!
No comments:
Post a Comment