From The Register
Merseyside police have ordered the local community to “stop grieving” after Liverpudlians flocked to deposit flowers, cards and teddy bears in tribute to a dead chicken found in an alleyway. According to the BBC, one card read: “RIP Little Baby. Safe in the arms of Jesus. From someone who is a loving mother xxxx.”
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In what is turning out to be an embarrassing oversight, the body of a dead man was left to rot in his car for nine days and even ticketed for over parking.
A TOP-LEVEL investigation will examine how the body of an elderly Melbourne man could lie unnoticed in a car for nine days.
Hundreds of people walked past and a parking officer stuck a ticket on his windscreen.
From The Herald Sun
I’m not sure about elsewhere but certainly here if you about to be booked and are in the car the parking inspectors will let you know that its time to move on. They no more want to issue the ticket than you want to receive it and they would certainly notice that your in your car before sticking a ticket to your windscreen.
As for the parking ticket being stuck to the back windscreen, sounds like an excuse to me as who would really stick it to the back windscreen as i am sure as hell not going to be looking for parking tickets on the back of the car when i get in the car to drive off.
This picture may just explain why calls for help for victims of Hurricane Katrina was so late …
