Traffic warden van is caught illegally parking

Warden parks across an entryway on a double yellow... moments after slamming a driver with a £50 ticket for parking in taxi bay

- RYAN THOM

'Jobsworth' parking wardens were caught parked across an entryway-moments after slapping a driver with a £50 ticket.

An Ayrshire Roads Alliance van used by enforcers in the town centre was pictured parked illegally on Monday, July 7.

Local businessman Brian Williamson said he was charged £50 for parking his van in a taxi bay in Ayr’s Kyle Street.

Seconds later he was left stunned when he spotted the warden’s patrol van parked on a double yellow and blocking the exit to a one-way street on nearby Smith Street.

The 51-year-old said: "I had literally just been given a ticket for parking in a taxi bay round the corner on Kyle Street.

"When I drove round the corner I couldn’t believe my eyes.

"The two wardens that had just issued my ticket had their van sat on double yellows and were obstructing a street.

"Just minutes before they were lecturing me on ‘knowing the rules'.

"I got out of my car and asked the guy 'are you going to give yourself a ticket?, 'you are clearly illegally parked'.