Seeing yellow
A Hendon man was stunned to discover he had been fined for parking outside his home. When Przemek Graszkiewicz of Vivian Avenue left his car, it was in a designated parking bay with his valid permit on display.
He rejoined his car to find a £40 penalty notice slapped on it.
He said: "I was confused at first as to why I had been given a ticket and then realised that council workers had removed the parking bay lines under my car while I was parked there and put yellow lines in front of and around my tyres."
Hendon Times (Sigrid Rabiger)
In hot water
A passenger boarding a London-bound train at Diss station was shocked to discover that a cup of boiling water would cost him £1.95. Paul Bartlett, of Thorndon, near Eye, usually brings his own herbal tea bags with him, but was informed that due to the nature of the dispensing machine's stock-taking protocols, a cup of boiling water had to be processed as if it was a cup of tea.
A Rural Life magazine (P Davies)
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