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Only in the UK would this happen....

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Story 1:

Exclusive: Cops hit man with £50 fine - for dropping £10 note in the street

Cops doled out a £50 fine to a man who dropped a tenner in the street.

Unemployed Stewart Smith, 36, had just bought a £3 T-shirt at a charity shop when he accidentally dropped the £10 note and his receipt.

He walked on a few yards before being collared by two beat cops, who hit him with a £50 fixed penalty fine.

Exclusive: Cops hit man with £50 fine - for dropping £10 note in the street - The Daily Record


Story 2:

Outside Bristol Zoo is the car park, with spaces for 150 cars and 8 coaches. It has been manned 6 days a week for 23 years by the same charming and very polite car park attendant with the ticket machine. The charges are £1. per car and £5. per coach.

On Monday 1 June, he did not turn up for work. Bristol Zoo management phoned Bristol City Council to ask them to send a replacement parking attendant.

The Council said "That car park is your responsibility." The Zoo said "The attendant was employed by the City Council... wasn't he?" The Council said "What attendant?"

Gone missing from his home is a man who has been taking daily the car park fees amounting to about £400. per day for the last 23 years...!

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If the tenner incident had happened in Doncaster, I wouldn't have been surprised - dump a dog end on the pavement and tread on it, there's a volunteer on every corner asking you to pick it up or take a fine.

But in Ayr? Very unexpected and surprising ...
 
There has to be more to the littering story.
If the guy is as broke as he's making out to be he wouldn't miss his back pocket when trying to put his change away...
 
He would have thrown his receipt on the floor delibratly not knowing the money was folded in it so desreves the fine. Story just tweaked for the news to sound silly!
 
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