Monday, February 7, 2005

Just the Ticket + Atom

1. "German radar police stumped by parking ticket"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200502/s1294842.htm>
"An over-zealous policeman has slapped a parking ticket on the windshield
 of a fellow officer's squad car while his colleagues were setting a radar
 trap to catch speeding motorists in a town in eastern Germany"

2. "Warden gives bus parking ticket"
   <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2808771.stm>
"A bus driver was issued with a parking ticket after stopping to pick up
 passengers"

3. "Traffic police investigated after driverless car charge"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1252114.htm>
"Driving in the bus lane without a driver is perhaps the most bizarre
 charge levelled at bemused motorists by Rome's over-zealous traffic
 police"

4. "Car ticketed after yellow lines appear"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_773260.html>
"A teenager has been given a parking ticket after double-yellow lines were
 painted on either side of his car"

5. "Yellow lines painted under driver's parked car"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_938219.html>
"Driver Steve Tether received a parking ticket after workmen painted yellow
 lines under his car"

6. "Swedish man bewildered over British parking ticket"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200409/s1193390.htm>
"A Swedish man says he has received a ticket for illegally parking his
 snowmobile in Great Britain - even though the vehicle has never left
 Sweden"

7. "Man clamped while buying ticket"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1193169.html>
"A chauffeur was clamped while buying a parking permit"

8. "Mother fined while getting ticket"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_955007.html>
"A young mother has reportedly been given a parking fine because she took
 too long to get a car park ticket"

9. "Parking attendant 'books bunny'"
   <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/3051447.stm>
"A pet shop owner was left in a stew when a traffic warden gave one of
 ticket on the rabbit's hutch in his shop in Eccles, Greater Manchester"

10. "Small cars get ticketed in SUV land"
   <http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/12/07/BAGRFA7H1I1.DTL>
"The city parking lot where he had found a spot has two rows of slots
 reserved for vehicles 6-foot-5 inches or taller, according to sign posted
 in the garage. Wainwright, with his Acura, was too short to park there"

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