Lifeboat crew handed parking fines by ‘jobsworth’ traffic warden while out saving lives at sea

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1. How much we betting they wont win the appeal either?

2. My first thought was “well if they parked illegally, how would the traffic warden know they were lifeboat crew?”.

   But no, they parked in a place requiring permits, *with* the permits displayed along with a “we’re off rescuing people” and got tickets on the grounds that “the permits could be fake”.

   I was going to object to the jobsworth tag, but feel it’s 100% deserved here.

3. If you want more videos of this incident, check out the new series of trigger happy tv.

4. I’m worried as I’ve seen 2! Parking officers just make up rules to hide their own embarrassment. Rather than tip their cap and say my mistake. Seriously if you make a mistake OWN UP!!! Why is this so hard these days

5. >”The traffic warden stated that anyone could have printed the Rnli crew stickers, signs and council issued permits so they will just have to contest them, not my problem.”

   Surely the permits have numbers associated with the vehicle registration? Do they seriously have permits with unique identifiers on them and then no way of verifying those numbers are legit?

   Also, why are the permits £2000 a year?! It’s government business, it should be free for as long as the car is registered as belonging to lifeboat crew. Charging lifeboat crew for parking permits is like charging an ambulance for parking.

6. Waiting for the daily mail lot to defend the traffic warden because they RNLI are now “a taxi service” for small boats.

7. I was a lifeboat volunteer until recently and can confirm we (well station management) had many discussions with the council about us parking in the car park next to the station when on a job or on training nights. The council said they couldn’t guarantee that we wouldn’t get ticketed on training nights or when out on a job even with permits on display.