Bloody Councils and their fines

[2011G6E]

In Bundaberg we had a single car garage in our back yard (we lived on a corner) set back from the road, and a long concrete drive leading from the kerb, across the footpath, through our fence, and up to the shed...you could park a big car in front of the shed and the tail of it wouldn't even poke onto the footpath.
Anyway, I had our Morris Minor in the shed rebuilding the front disc brakes, our car at the time, a '78 XC-Update Fairmont GXL, was parked behind it on the driveway, and the tail of it was about a meter inside our fence. My mother came over for a visit in her little '96 121 Mazda, and parked on our driveway behind our XC. the tail of her little hatchback poked out onto the footpath, but on our driveway.

As she was talking to me in the shed, a police car pulled up and a cop walked over, "advising" us that her car was illegally parked, and they "could" give her a ticket for parking "blocking the footpath" (which she wasn't because of the wide footpath in our area). They again "advised" her to move it, and left.

The old bird didn't...

Hey, she's as law-abiding as they come...but even she knows ******** when she smells it...