David Thake (September 7) is lucky if he can park at night on yellow lines close to his home in Qawra and not worry about it until the traffic wardens start their rounds at 7.30 a.m. In Gozo, the police will issue tickets in residential streets - it happened to me and to a neighbour - at 2 a.m. on a Sunday night. Three cranes, similarly parked, received no penalty notices, of course.

Everybody, it seems, has to keep his quota up.

Meanwhile, wardens in Gozo cheerfully ignore vehicles parked on pedestrian crossings, on roundabouts and in bus lay-bys.

Presumably by the time they spot them they consider their duty for the day has been done on parking quotas and they can go on to standing in the shade, skulking in bushes and watching for anybody putting one tyre across the middle of the road - while totally ignoring black exhaust emissions, faulty lights, children standing between the front seats of cars, trucks with no brake lights and often no visible number plates, lorries with insecure loads, drivers talking on mobile phones, cars with blue or red lights on the front, motorcyclists doing "wheelies" and all the rest of the things that the rest of us see all day, every day.

Do you think their mothers know how they earn a living?