Do you think parking officers should be more lenient on funeral cars and hearses when they are parked somewhere where other cars are not allowed?
This is exactly the argument occurring in Marlborough in the UK right now after parking wardens ticketed a funeral director for washing his hearse outside his facility in a “no parking” zone. The director was so mad, in fact, that he splashed the parking warden with water as she was giving him a ticket and she is considering assault charges in return.
The ironic part of the story is that David Hunter, the funeral director in question, asked the city to make the area outside his funeral home a “no parking” zone because other cars were parking there and blocking his hearses from getting in and out of the parking lot. He claims he was only partly parked on the double yellow lines and he said he was not blocking anybody in where he was parked. He went on to say this: “I know the wardens have a job to do but they should use their discretion.”
How do our readers weigh in on this story? Should the funeral director be allowed to park in the “no parking” zone in front of his facility to wash his hearses or did the parking warden do her job correctly? Let us know your thoughts below.