BADGE OF SHAME; Traffic meanies give Cath, 90, a pounds 60 ticket for upside-down permit.Byline: By Kieran Finlay A SCROOGE parking warden gave a 90-year-old woman a pounds 60 ticket because her disabled badge was upside-down. Frail Catherine Clarke, who suffers from brittle bone disease, was delivering Christmas cards when the jobsworth A jobsworth is a person who uses his or her job description in a deliberately obstructive way, "a minor factotum whose only status comes from enforcing otherwise petty regulations".[1] The term comes from the phrase "I can't do that, it's more than my job's worth. pounced. Catherine's daughter Carol Scott, who was driving the car, said: "They said we parked without clearly displaying a valid disabled person's badge. "I was helping my mother out the car and the badge was blown upside-down by the wind. I don't abuse the law but I was paying attention Noun 1. paying attention - paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people); "his attentiveness to her wishes"; "he spends without heed to the consequences" attentiveness, heed, regard to the person getting out of the car. "I don't know how the wardens can sleep at night. It's very mean-spirited, especially at Christmas. "My mum is really stressed. She's never owed anybody money before. "It's disgraceful dis·grace·ful adj. Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful. dis·grace  ful·ly adv. . I've written to the council to
appeal."
A spokesman for Dundee City Council, who issued the ticket, said: "I would advise the lady to lodge an appeal and this will be fully considered." CAPTION(S): APPEAL: Disabled badge |
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