An elderly man who had been dead for several days, slumped over the wheel of his car, was this week issued with a parking fine.
Parking officers from Maroondah City Council in Victoria stuck the fine on the windscreen of the man’s car on Wednesday at the Croydon Market shopping centre. A police spokeswoman confirmed that police discovered the deceased man, 71, yesterday and found a parking ticket on the windscreen of his car. He had been reported missing to police nine days ago and was known to be seriously ill.
The man’s friend, known only as Marie, told radio station 3AW today she was disgusted by the parking officers’ behaviour. “From what the police had told me, it would have been very obvious he was deceased so I’m really disgusted.”
Source: Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald
Had they not discovered him, I’m sure the judge would have issued a warrant for his arrest for failure to pay the ticket. After all, he really is a deadbeat.
I just saw this article too. Pretty tacky, I must say. It’s one way of making sure that parking inspectors meet their quotas, I suppose.
guizot
October 21, 2005, 3:15am
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And it was a grave offense to park as he did.
I wonder if his tabs expired also.