fines

New guidance has been issued to Parking Infringement Detection Officers to clarify guidance previously issued by their employers, the City of London Corporation. From today any car displaying an invalid, out of date, or ineligible ticket will receive a parking fine. The PIDO's were failing to apply fines to vehicles that were displaying incorrect parking tickets if they also displayed a valid ticket.

"It's really quite simple" said the corporation "so simple in fact that anyone should be able to understand. One ticket, the correct one, no more no less and the vehicle will not get a parking fine. Anything number other than one and the vehicle owner has broken the law and faces a £120 fine."

Accusations of blatant profiteering were denied by a senior PIDO. "This is not about revenue collection" he said, "this is about speeding up the service we provide for the corporation. When we have to check two or three tickets to see if one is valid that wastes valuable time when we could be fining another vehicle owner."

Locals listened with increasingly incredulous expressions to the pronouncement. "What?" said one "We will be fined £120 for having a valid parking permit displayed correctly in our cars? That's fucking insane!"