You couldnt make it up....

[G4Z]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/h...re/5110742.stm


"She added: "Occasionally things go wrong no matter how hard we try to get things right." - not convinced they "tried hard" to get this right, no doubt they handed this contract to some company and forgot about it.

[Spud1]

lol ace, someone at the painting contractor was obviously very bored Probaly won't have a job now either...

[johnny02004976]

hahah thats awesome - p45 in the post me thinks

[FatalSaviour]

Pretty pathetic job by the painting contractors tbh, but at least it's sorted...this time anyway

[shiato storm]

you've got to be pretty fecking stupid to paint a box around a car and not question it...well, thats what you get from council contracted people - cheap as.

[chicken]

They painted double yellows down our road last year, there was a gap where a car had been when they painted them and the next day someone parked in the gap... warden comes along and slaps a fine on the windscreen, even though the lines clearly stop either side of the car.

%&@#s

That one's funny though, you could almost see someone doing that as a prank!

[DavidM]

Hmmm - was his boss Jeremy Beadle?

[iranu]

I have seen pictures of a parked car that has had double yellow lines painted around it, then a traffic warden put a ticket on it!

FYI you can successfully challenge a ticket for parking on a double yellow line if the lines are broken at any stage of they do not have the "T" bar at the end painted on.

The traffic law states that a double yellow line must be continuos and have a cross bar ("T") at each end. If the lines don't have this then the road is incorectly marked and the lines are in effect invalid. It's a technicality but one that has been successfully used in court.