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POUND-A-SECOND FOR PARKING IN PURLEY
Original Message by Victor:
The new parking charges imposed by Croydon Council of up-to-one-hundred pounds penalty and a two-hundred pound removal charge will put further stress on local motorists and increase anger at the parking regime imposed on the town.
I was charged one-hundred-and-ninety pounds after parking on a yellow line in Purley for two minutes, now punative punishment seems to be awaiting users of parking meters.
My story was that I stopped outside a Purley block of flats and walked to the first floor to see if a friend was in. I rang his bell and waited a short while. He was not there. I walked downstairs and found my car was being prepared to be lifted to be taken to the central Croydon car pound.
I protested to no avail and followed the car to the car pound by taxi.
After paying the penalty I asked the girl on the counter how long I had been timed as being on the yellow line. She told me two minutes !!
Am I being cynical in thinking that a degree of entrapment is operating. It appears the parking car-loading lorries are cruising close to towns like Purley. They can then be rapidly called in by telephone for a kill by our friendly (not really) local Traffic Enforcement Officers.
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