DannyCullipLookalike'sDad
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- Nov 12, 2003
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This is a strange but true story that happened today.
My youngest daughter ( Danny Cullip Lookalike's Sister ) is at brunel University and lives in Isleworth. She had no lectures today and has a part time job waitressing etc at various functions in the area and, today, she was at Twickenham from 9 am to 8 pm waitressing and working behind the bars for the Oxford v Cambridge rugby mumble.
She drove down there ( a bit late ) and parked her Citroen Saxo ( only 2 years old ) in a fairly central part of Twickenham ( opposite the Tesco store ) on a single yellow line...of which she was not too aware at the time of parking.
I got a phone call here in Leicestershire from a very distressed daughter at 6.25 pm ( she finished early ) to say her car had been stolen and that there was a pile of glass where it had been. I was pretty pissed off to put it mildly as it sounded like someone had smacked the window, got in and driven off . I told her to ring 999, report and call me back. 20 minutes later she rang back to say that having walked away from where she had left the car, she happened to see it about 100 yards away on the other side of the road and facing the opposite way to which she had parked. When she had parked it in the morning, she had a friend in the car with her who is a witness to all this.
There was no apparent damage to the car but there was a parking ticket for Stg 50 because it was in a permit holders area and she has no permit and this ticket was timed at 15.39 pm.
Neither she nor I have any idea how a car can mysteriously move 100 yards down the road and face the other way - perhaps some boisterous rugby funs thought they would bump it along for a laugh? As I said, no damage incurred.
She went along ( on my instructions ) to Hounslow police station to say that it had not been stolen and reported what had happened but they weren't too helpful but said if we spoke to the warden and explained the bizarre set of circumstances, we might get away with the fine.
If she had got a ticket for parking on a single yellow, it's a fair cop, but she never actually parked in a permit holder's place originally.
This is a complete mystery and an utterly true story. Is it worth me pursuing this to avoid the fine?
My youngest daughter ( Danny Cullip Lookalike's Sister ) is at brunel University and lives in Isleworth. She had no lectures today and has a part time job waitressing etc at various functions in the area and, today, she was at Twickenham from 9 am to 8 pm waitressing and working behind the bars for the Oxford v Cambridge rugby mumble.
She drove down there ( a bit late ) and parked her Citroen Saxo ( only 2 years old ) in a fairly central part of Twickenham ( opposite the Tesco store ) on a single yellow line...of which she was not too aware at the time of parking.
I got a phone call here in Leicestershire from a very distressed daughter at 6.25 pm ( she finished early ) to say her car had been stolen and that there was a pile of glass where it had been. I was pretty pissed off to put it mildly as it sounded like someone had smacked the window, got in and driven off . I told her to ring 999, report and call me back. 20 minutes later she rang back to say that having walked away from where she had left the car, she happened to see it about 100 yards away on the other side of the road and facing the opposite way to which she had parked. When she had parked it in the morning, she had a friend in the car with her who is a witness to all this.
There was no apparent damage to the car but there was a parking ticket for Stg 50 because it was in a permit holders area and she has no permit and this ticket was timed at 15.39 pm.
Neither she nor I have any idea how a car can mysteriously move 100 yards down the road and face the other way - perhaps some boisterous rugby funs thought they would bump it along for a laugh? As I said, no damage incurred.
She went along ( on my instructions ) to Hounslow police station to say that it had not been stolen and reported what had happened but they weren't too helpful but said if we spoke to the warden and explained the bizarre set of circumstances, we might get away with the fine.
If she had got a ticket for parking on a single yellow, it's a fair cop, but she never actually parked in a permit holder's place originally.
This is a complete mystery and an utterly true story. Is it worth me pursuing this to avoid the fine?
