Guilty as charged
OK, I admit it. I’m a blight on society; a festering pustule in the delicate skin of humanity; nay, a villainous onion-eyed skainsmate (the last, curtesy of the Shakespeare Insult Kit). And now I’ve been caught. To my everlasting shame, I (apparently) parked my humble transportation outside my home in a manner described as “not parallel to direction of travel”. Oh, the shame of it!
It is little consolation that I am not alone in my depravity. The penalty notice states that this is Infringement Notice 79389540311, so I guess Blacktown’s Parking Police have caught more than 79 billion of my fellow archfiends. Although, it does strike me as somewhat unfair that only a mere 160 million others have paid their dues, or at least fines, as attested to by the Official Online Receipt Number.
However, the relatively inconsequential amount of $125 could be considered as almost a “libation”, considering what the penalty might have been if I’d been raided by the Housework Police …