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Traffic wardens sprayed a yellow line under two cars, then CLAMPED them. Ricky Moore had parked on part of a road where the markings were removed by roadworks. Wardens had told Ricky and builder mates that it was OK to park there. But they sprayed a yellow line between the wheels of the cars and clamped them ten minutes later. Parking bosses in Islington, North London, removed the clamps on his Mitsubishi after passing cops intervened. A police source said, “The traffic wardens around here are a law unto themselves. They put tickets on police cars.” A spokesman for the local council who employ the wardens said, “It was a daft mistake. We apologise.”

Motorists in Norwich are baffled by a set of yellow lines that is just 45 inches long. Norwich City Council says it's painted the lines to stop vehicles parking in a gap between two other restricted parking areas. The AA says parking restrictions should have a purpose. Drivers say the lines are so short, even one car couldn't fit on them. One driver said, "They'll be painting them up the walls next." A council spokesman said, "We put them in so as not to confuse drivers." (Pictures)

A traffic warden slapped tickets on three fire brigade vans as crews battled a blaze. He then told firefighters who complained, “If you’re not gone in 20 minutes I’ll give you another one.” The moron warden also tried to ticket an ambulance waiting to treat a victim of the blaze. One fireman said, “It’s hard to believe someone could be so stupid. He could clearly see smoke billowing from the building and hoses going in, but still wrote out the tickets while we were trying to save lives, he was busy going power mad.”

The warden claimed the vans were breaking tough parking rules in the area but council chiefs admitted he was not only daft but WRONG. A Westminster City Council spokesman said, “Emergency service vehicles are exempt from parking restrictions while on official duties.” The council said it had cancelled the tickets and taken up the issue with NCP, the contractor which controls its parking wardens.

The spokesman said, “We’ve told NCP to remind all attendants that emergency services provide a vital service and are exempt from parking restrictions on official business.” He pledged wardens would “err on the side of caution” when ticketing emergency vehicles in future. NCP said it had launched an full inquiry. Spokesman Ian Kavanagh added, “We regret any inconvenience this has caused to the fire brigade and any embarrassment to Westminster.”

Driver Anna Meadows was wheel clamped, even though a parking ticket machine had been blacked out by a power cut. Anna found the clamp on her Peugeot 307 after shopping in Mexborough, South Yorks and the clamping firm Vehicle Control Services insisted she pay the £70 release fee. Anna, who would have normally paid 70p to park, said, "I told them it wasn't my fault but it didn't make any difference." A spokesman said she could appeal.

A traffic warden issued a bus driver with a parking ticket after he stopped to pick up passengers. The ticket was cancelled after the bus company confronted Manchester City Council about what had happened. A spokeswoman for Manchester City Council said the issuing of the ticket had shown a "lack of judgement" by the warden who was ordered to undergo "appropriate retraining".

An American Airforce F111 bomber, about 20m long and weighing in at about 40 tons, suffered brake failure and overshot the end of the runway when landing at its UK airbase. It crashed through the boundary fence and came to a stop with its nose over the local road. A traffic warden fined the pilot for illegal parking.

A motorist parked her vehicle in the city of Nottingham, bought her ticket at the machine and stuck it on her window. She returned a few minutes later, with 40 minutes to go before her parking ticket expired, to find she had been fined - for sticking her ‘pay and display’ ticket on her window upside-down. A council spokesman said the onus is on the driver to make sure that tickets are displayed clearly “so if a ticket is upside down we are within our rights to issue a fine”.

Traffic wardens can park on a city's yellow lines while doctors and nurses have to apply for permits to park outside a patient's home. The ruling comes after an inquiry was held into a parking attendant who parked his car illegally while he dished out £60-worth of penalty tickets. But Liverpool Council discovered a local traffic regulation that lets wardens park where they please in the line of duty. A spokeswoman for parking firm Citilink, said, "We cannot have doctors parking anywhere. They can appeal if it is a genuine emergency."

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