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A polite letter and packet of crisps to ward off penalty charge notices

22 December 2015
This driver`s note offers parking attendants a bag of crisps as a goodwill gesture
This driver`s note offers parking attendants a bag of crisps as a goodwill gesture

 

Drivers who park where they know they shouldn’t often leave handwritten notes in their windscreens in the hope of warding off a penalty charge notice. Civil enforcement officers frequently come across scraps of paper with hastily scrawled messages explaining that the badly parked vehicle belongs to a doctor/midwife/engineer ‘on call’, going to be ‘Back in 10 minutes’ or ‘Making a delivery’. 

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