Woman protests fine with pennies
Arizona Coin Collector
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Woman protests fine with pennies
CHISELHURST, England, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- A Chiselhurst, England,
woman said she paid a $160 parking fine in pennies after her
parking pass fell off her windshield.
Maggie Gebbett, 63, said she received the penalty notice in
May and wrote a letter of appeal to Bromley Council,
explaining that she had purchased a parking pass but the hot
weather had caused it to peel from her windshield, The Daily
Telegraph reported Wednesday.
Gebbett said a solicitor acting as an adjudicator for the
Parking and Traffic Appeals Service recommended the fine be
canceled despite ruling that there had been a technical
breach. However, she said the council refused to cancel the
fine and told her it would be increased if it was not paid
by Wednesday.
"I just think they have been extremely shabby about
everything that has gone on," Gebbett said of the council
as she rolled a wheelbarrow of 1 and 2 cent coins to the
council office. "I have been told I can't have my case
reviewed if I pay, but I am going to try and insist on a
review. I have written a letter to say I'm making the
payment under protest."
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