[Studio25]

I was parked in Burnley a few weeks ago and saw I had a parking ticket when I came out 15 minutes late to move my car. It was a fair cop- I thought "Oh well, no point shifting it now" and went back to my shooting.

When I came out the ticket had gone. I queried it the following day and sure enough a ticket had been issued. I waited 'til the last minute before paying, as it occurred to me that there's no mechanism in place to protect people from tickets blowing off or being removed maliciously. I was lucky as I'd seen the ticket, briefly. I didn't get anything by post in the two weeks between getting the ticket and paying that told me the ticket had been issued.

It used to say on tickets that it is an offence to interfere with them (probably still does) but that's no good if the offender isn't caught interfering. their guilt transfers to the oblivious parker...