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Today I got my first parking ticket for over ten years. I returned to my car a few minutes late because of circumstances outside my control. OK technically I was in the wrong but what annoys me is that we have three “pay and display” car parks. Out local “Civil Enforcement Officers”, as they are now called, lurk around these trying to catch people who like myself or those who have parked incorrectly even if the car park is 90% empty and about to close. However if you walk a hundred yards to the High Street cars can be parked illegally/dangerously, able bodied people parked in disabled bays, etc. and these never seem to be booked. Is it not time we went back to proper “Parking Wardens” and away from this “Revenue Collector” mentality?
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