Fuming Iceland shopper hit with £170 fine in £1 parking row
10.05.2022 - 11:41
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A furious pensioner claims she is being ‘blackmailed’ into paying an £170 parking fine.
Despite putting £1 in a machine on a shopping trip to Iceland, Mary Jones, 72, was "not impressed" when a fine of £100 came through addressed to her husband Mike. As reported by DevonLive, the couple's despair unfolded when they went shopping at their local Iceland branch.
They parked in a car park which they thought belonged to the supermarket chain, but was in fact managed by Excel Parking.
Explaining the circumstances surrounding the trip on January 18, Mary said: “My husband stayed in the car because he's not able to do any walking at the moment. I went to the machine to get a ticket out, put the money in and no ticket, nor my pound came out.
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"I went and told him to keep an eye out in case the chappie came along. I had a word in Iceland to explain what had happened, and that I did not have a ticket. The lady doubled checked and confirmed that should be ok.”
She said that after doing her shopping, she returned to the car after 40 minutes and headed back to their home in Chulmleigh. “I didn’t want to stay long, as you don't hang around with frozen goods,” she said.
After thinking nothing more of her trip, she was shocked when on February 2, she received a letter from Excel Parking, addressed to her husband, with a fine of £100. “I was not impressed having thought that it was all sorted,” she said.
“I got hold of them on the telephone and explained what had happened. All I received in reply was them saying it was not down to Iceland to say I could park there. I also explained that if they checked the money that had gone into the machine, it