I'm sorry Markjay, but I couldn't help but chuckle - such a comedy of errors... ...I bet you couldn't believe it when you saw the ticket....
I came out of the office running when I saw the flash of his camera, he was driving a Smart and stopped to give me the ticket, it all took seconds - by the time I was out he already had the PCN printed and attached to the windscreen, and was taking the pictures… then he drove off in his Smart to look for the next victim.
The most annoying bit is that the street in front of the office is mostly single yellow line, so I could have parked there at night no problem, but I parked in a bay that leads to a garage next door so that the car is out of harm’s way, and the ticket was for ‘footway parking’, this is in spite of the fact that I wasn’t actually parked on the pavement and that the pavement is very wide anyway – twice the car's width – and there were no pedestrians around at this time of night…