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Car Ticketed With Dead Body at the Wheel
AP ^ | 10/22/05 | Staff

Posted on 10/21/2005 1:04:06 PM PDT by Millee

SYDNEY, Australia - A traffic warden slapped a parking ticket on a car which had its dead driver slumped at the wheel outside an Australian shopping mall, an official said Friday.The body of the 71-year-old man, whose identity was not immediately released, was discovered Thursday in a parking lot in the southern city of Melbourne, The Age newspaper reported Friday.

The man had been reported missing nine days earlier and was known to be seriously ill, the newspaper said.

Nevertheless, a parking officer who inspected the vehicle failed to notice the man inside and issued the parking fine two days before his body was discovered.

Paul Denham, the mayor of Maroondah council, where the man was found, said the parking officer was "distressed" to learn that the dead man had been inside the car.

"Our local laws officer checked and wrote out the ticket at the rear of the vehicle and placed the ticket from the passenger side on the windscreen," Denham said in a statement. "The local laws officer did not notice anything unusual regarding the vehicle, and is extremely distressed to have learned of the situation."


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chiefwiggumonthecase; hatewhenthathappens
"C'mon buddy, move it along now.."
1 posted on 10/21/2005 1:04:07 PM PDT by Millee
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To: Millee
Like, the smell wasn't detected? It is like spring down there isn't it? Heat? Smell? Dead a week.
2 posted on 10/21/2005 1:11:01 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (Socialist Dems, the MSM and Islamic murderers, ALL threats to the Republic!)
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To: RetiredArmy

Ick, I'd hate be the guy who has to open that door.


3 posted on 10/21/2005 1:14:02 PM PDT by Welsh Rabbit
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To: Millee
Need some Monty Python here:

"G'day mate. license and reggee please."

"imd"

"Whassat mate"?

"I'm dead."

"You're dead?"

"I'm dead"

"none the matter. Dead or not, you can't park here."

etc...

4 posted on 10/21/2005 1:17:34 PM PDT by SGCOS
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To: Welsh Rabbit
CSI - Sydney!!!!! :-)
5 posted on 10/21/2005 1:20:33 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (Socialist Dems, the MSM and Islamic murderers, ALL threats to the Republic!)
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To: Millee

C'mon, move along. Whaddya doin'? Waiting for a funeral?"


6 posted on 10/21/2005 1:59:04 PM PDT by theDentist (The Dems have put all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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To: SGCOS

Yer not dead - yer merely pinin' - pinin' fer the fjords!


7 posted on 10/21/2005 2:02:36 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof - usually by midmorning, or so.)
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To: windcliff

I wonder if relatives will have to pay the ticket.


8 posted on 10/21/2005 2:06:09 PM PDT by stylecouncilor
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To: Millee

"I CITE DEAD PEOPLE!"


9 posted on 10/21/2005 2:24:38 PM PDT by Capn TrVth
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To: Hegemony Cricket
Yer not dead - yer merely pinin' - pinin' fer the fjords!

Pinin', ya say?


10 posted on 10/23/2005 2:10:57 AM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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