Council hands out parking ticket - for 90 second stop

David Osborne, a 68-year-old builder and decorator from Bristol, had driven his partner into the city on Valentine's Day for a romantic drink. He pulled over outside the bar he was planning to visit, and hopped out to read a sign showing the parking restrictions. As soon as he realised that it was a clearway for another hour and a half, he got back in and drove off. In all he says he must have been there for about 90 seconds - but it was long enough to earn him a parking ticket.

And he's far from the first victim of over-zealous parking enforcement.

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