{"id":28644,"date":"2019-03-04T13:28:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=28644"},"modified":"2019-03-04T13:28:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:28:55","slug":"fines-issued-over-crazy-parking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/04\/fines-issued-over-crazy-parking\/","title":{"rendered":"Fines Issued Over Crazy Parking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have shamed a taxi driver for dumping his car in the middle of a city road in Sparkbrook.<\/p>\n<p>The Toyota was seen blocking a residential street\u00a0after it parked itself between two rows of cars.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was slapped with a fine and shamed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/west-midlands-police\">West Midlands Police<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby, an Uber employee was also slammed for parking diagonally.<\/p>\n<p>The silver vehicles were pictured with its back end sticking out into the road.<\/p>\n<p>It was ticketed by police for causing an &#8216;unnecessary obstruction&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Two other drivers were exposed over their badly parked cars during the same parking swoop.<\/p>\n<p>A Mercedes van and a silver car were spotted and issued with fines on Conway Road, Gladstone Road and Clifton Road.<\/p>\n<p>Sparkbrook Police tweeted the photos on Sunday, March 3.<\/p>\n<p>They wrote: &#8220;We&#8217;ve given tickets out this morning to the below vehicles on Conway Road, Gladstone Road and Clifton Road for unnecessary obstruction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFines are on the way! You CANNOT park like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have shamed a taxi driver for dumping his car in the middle of a city road in Sparkbrook. The Toyota was seen blocking a residential street\u00a0after it parked itself between two rows of cars. The driver was slapped with a fine and shamed by\u00a0West Midlands Police\u00a0on Twitter. Nearby, an Uber employee was also slammed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}