Tickets were based on technical error

Three overzealous wardens and five parking tickets in just eight months have driven one unhappy driver around the bend.

Vince Borg, who has a sticker on his car's windscreen saying he is allowed to park in the residential zones of Floriana, received five parking tickets this year for doing just that.

The tickets were given by three wardens between February and September, but all were later withdrawn when Mr Borg proved he was in the right.

Although he did not have to pay for the tickets, he feels he has been inconvenienced unnecessarily due to carelessness and incompetence.

A spokesman for the Floriana local council said this was a very rare case that resulted "inadvertently" due to the negligence of the wardens.

He added, however, that Mr Borg did not stick his sticker next to the licence as he was advised to, but chose to put it on the top left corner of the windscreen.

"This made the sticker less visible, but we still had a word with the wardens about it because they should be more careful when giving tickets," the spokesman said.

He explained that when someone receives a ticket from a warden for no good reason, they should go to the board of petitions or the tribunal to have it withdrawn, and if there was a technical error, as is the case with Mr Borg, it would be cancelled immediately.