Lifeboat given parking ticket: can it be fair?

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A Lifeboat crew were stunned when a lifeboat on its way to being decommissioned was left unattended in a car park for a few minutes, and was promptly slapped with a parking ticket.

So can this be fair, and is this the worst ticketing blunder of recent years?