How to get out of paying a parking fine in the ghetto.

I had only been back in North London for a short while, this was the scene as i walked out my barbershop. At first all i saw was the parking ticket officer, i decided to take a snap of him taking £60 out of another member of the public as i thought it would make a perfect discussion topic for my blog. 

Little did i know that the story would unfold in front of my eyes when the owner of the vehicle arrived on the scene. < Make sure you check out the link for the video, apologies for the loss of visuals at one point, i need to work on my cameraman skills in pressure situations!

I have been driving since i was 17, and i can totally understand where the father in the video is coming from. It has to be one of the worst feelings in the world when you return to your car and find the dreaded yellow pochet on your windscreen. 

I know the law abiding citizens reading this blog will disagree with me and they may feel no compassion towards the man, but i honestly feel parking tickets are just another tool for the government to punish the vulnerable members of the public and a way of asserting their authority on the poorer communities. 

Supposedly, the money accumulated from the fines are reinvested into the roads in Britain, who are they kidding? 

Having driven around our neighbouring european countries including France, Germany and Italy one thing is clear, England lags behind when it comes to the quality of its roads. 

What you don't see in the video are the mans 2 young daughters who were standing to the right of the camera shot, one of them couldn't have been older than 7 and the other looked 12 or 13. 

Now, some readers may be more privileged than others, but in a community like Enfield, i would say 90% of the habitants work long hours and many days, just to make ends meet. £60 is an average days earnings for most public sector workers, so can anyone really afford to see a days wages vanish into thin air?

Here are a few things a family man could buy his family or kids with £60:

• School uniform
• Majority of weekly shopping
• School shoes
• Books
• Payment for school trips (my barbers 3 children came into the barbershop and told him they needed £22 each for a school trip next week) 

Human compassion is disappearing. I remember the tales my grandfather used to tell me when i visited Sri Lanka, of strangers helping each other out without expecting anything in return. People are drifting further and further away from each other, people are becoming more and more selfish, but maybe this is what the leaders of the world want? 

The more people focus on individual gain and ignore collective spirit, the less likely people are to gather together and voice their opinion, only when people come together will the voice of the communities really be heard.

Au revoir!