AND BUSINESSES SLAM 'PATHETIC' MOVE WHICH THEY SAY STOPS THEIR CUSTOMERS FROM PARKING NEARBY

A WORKER painted double yellow lines around a parked car ~ leaving people in the area “laughing” at the “hilarious” spectacle.

- By SOPHIE BUSCIMESE

While the lines around the car were removed again as of yesterday, residual paint was still visible when the Derby Telegraph visited, and the car’s tyres have been coloured slightly yellow too.

The lines were painted near the corner of Station Street and Middleton Street, close to Ilkeston’s railway station, by Derbyshire County Council.

“It’s hilarious. We're all laughing about it,” said a shop owner in the nearby Armstrong's Mill Outlet.

“We couldn't believe our eyes when we saw it, and we all came to look at it first thing this morning.”

Melissa, landlord of the Dewdrop Inn pub opposite the scene, said: “We didn’t know they would be painting the lines on the street.