What's worse than your car being flooded up to its windscreen?

Finding you've been given a parking ticket too...

Three motorists had insult added to injury as parking inspectors
fined
them as weekend floodwater receded from their stricken vehicles in

York.The cars were parked on a riverbank in York city centre and

fell victim to the rising River Ouse after torrential rain.They
were
flooded up to their windscreens with filthy water, but when the
flooding
subsided yesterday a parking inspector wasted no time issuing
tickets
because they were on double yellow lines.




'You're nicked':
The
three cars were given parking tickets after being trapped in
floodwaters
when the River Ouse in York broke its banks over the
weekend

Shaun Binns, landlord of the Lowther pub, which was also
affected by
rising river levels, said he was astonished to see
tickets on the
windscreens.He said: 'Normally you get people parking
on there
but they move them in time to avoid flooding. But in this
case I think
the river's come up very quickly and they must have
been caught out.'There
are double yellow lines down there and I
suppose you could say if
you're not allowed to park there then you
shouldn't, but the inspector
must have seen the cars had been
flooded and you'd think they'd have a
bit of compassion.'



Stranded: Pictured
from
the bridge visible in the top picture, the cars were flooded with
dirty
river water, but that didn't deter an eager parking inspector

The
owners have yet to appear to retrieve their sodden vehicles. A
council
spokesman claimed parking attendants had been 'unaware' some
cars
had been flooded when issuing the tickets.She added if the
drivers
provided evidence their vehicle had been submerged, they could
successfully
appeal against the ticket.


It could be
Guernsey eh !!

jobsworths eh lol