Man fined 'for helping homeless on Christmas Day'

[mike_field]

A man who pulled in to a bus stop on Christmas Day to help a homeless man was fined by a council.

Lee Williamson, of Evington, Leicester, said he stopped to give a homeless man a blanket, hat, gloves, scarf, food, and chat to him.

He later received a £70 fine, despite there being no buses on 25 December.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-42961418

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The Mahrez meltdown seems to have effected the local Council. Since was a bus stop a bicycle lane?

 

[Stephen Jay Hawkings]

Welcome to planet Earth :21:

 

[mike_field]

The Mayor has now changed his tune.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-42973471

"You can take rules to a crazy extreme. We should do everything we can to make absolutely certain that Lee is not punished for doing this good deed and his parking fine is cancelled."

 

[JuanPabloAngel]

Quite right from the Mayor - what a ridiculous state of affairs.

 

[mike_field]

I'm guessing somebody told him about the 'optics' of pointing out there was legal parking further down the road and what a pointless statement it was.

I might just be being harsh though as surely somebody down the chain who it got to first should've just laughed and binned it.

 

[The Fear]

You have to laugh don't you? Such pettiness. And yet we all want and need more good people in the world!

 

[Pride of Lions]

Jobsworth gone crazy. Thankfully, the major saw sense, and quite rightly too.