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30th January 2018
04:37pm GMT

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And he had tools at his disposal. With one of his colleagues - who also used the car park - going on paternity leave and his brother about to leave for Canada, he realised he had 'two cars and an extra space' to use as part of his plan.
He left his own car in his co-worker's empty space and his brother's directly behind the one who had parked illegally in his.
Then he grassed the illegal parker up to the company that owned the car park, informing them of his own and his brother's registration, so they would not mistake them for the miscreant.
He explained: "Sure enough, as I arrive at work on Monday, I find an extremely irate, sweaty man screaming at the parking enforcement officer.
"It was explained that the car blocking him in was properly permitted, so it doesn’t matter that he now can’t move, as he was parked illegally.
"At this point, I am crying with laughter and really struggled to hold it together when they asked if I knew who owned my brother's car. Sadly, I didn't."
The parking official gave the man a £100 penalty - but that was just the start of it.
The parking attendant informed the illegal parker that they couldn't do anything about the car blocking him in, so he was handed a fine every day until the amount he owed crept up to £2000.
You can imagine that he learnt his lesson.
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