Where is JT?

A business collegue was recently caught out by the parking ticket happy Gateshead council. He was running the Great North Run for a great charity but failed to realise a Parking Officer was looking to make up his quoter of the day.

See story below:

A Great North Runner’s hit out at Gateshead Council after getting what he says was a completely unreasonable parking ticket on the day of the event.

John Lewins from Peterlee ran the 13 miles dressed as a gorilla for charity.

He parked his car in Heworth but when he got back he’d been given a ticket for being outside the parking bay’s lines.

He says he was on the line and the ticket shouldn’t stand.

Gateshead Council sent a statement saying they can’t comment on individual cases. Gateshead Council are spineless morons who are frightened of letting someone raising money for chairty off one stupid parking ticket. They are rich and greedy civil servants who’s idea of hitting a target is not reducing crime but issuing enough parking tickets.

The bulk of this article has been taken from http://www.metroradio.co.uk/Article.asp?id=933194&spid=25620

JT’s Judgement:- “From the posts and feedback I recieve about parking tickets it seems every council is as spineless as the other. They sneak upto your car when your not around and slap on a parking ticket. They then fail to comment, seriously get a grip! Gateshead Council seem to be making money from people raising money for charity this time, something is very wrong with the world!”

If anyone else experienced parking problems on race day of the Great North Run I would be very interested to hear from you.