A church choir mistress was so infuriated by a fine she received for parking at a hospital that she put 3,500 pennies in a sweet jar and took it to the council offices in a wheelbarrow to pay it. Susan Catcheside, 74, from Longney, Gloucester, said "Hitler-ite" parking wardens had shown a "lack of humanity" by giving her a £70 fine while she visited a friend awaiting a heart operation. The retired company secretary, who runs Longney and Elmore Church Choir, left her car in a permit holders' parking bay she claimed was poorly marked outside Gloucester Royal Hospital. She fired off an appeal letter to the council upon discovering the fine on her windscreen, but was told she would have to pay. Although Mrs Catcheside, whose son is a priest, paid the fine within two weeks - meaning it was reduced to £35 - she said she decided to make city council bureaucrats "work for it" by doing so in the most awkward way she was allowed.
Susan Catcheside, 74, from Longney, Gloucester, said "Hitler-ite" parking wardens had shown a "lack of humanity" by giving her a £70 fine while she visited a friend awaiting a heart operation.
The retired company secretary, who runs Longney and Elmore Church Choir, left her car in a permit holders' parking bay she claimed was poorly marked outside Gloucester Royal Hospital.
She fired off an appeal letter to the council upon discovering the fine on her windscreen, but was told she would have to pay.
Although Mrs Catcheside, whose son is a priest, paid the fine within two weeks - meaning it was reduced to £35 - she said she decided to make city council bureaucrats "work for it" by doing so in the most awkward way she was allowed.
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