UK: Ticket the old, they’ll always pay: How the ruthless parking cowboys tell their wardens to exploit the vulnerable

For almost 50 years, Albert Pagan has parked in the same car park during his annual holiday to the Lake District. After what he experienced this year, however, he will never do so again.

Elderly drivers are being ruthlessly targeted by cowboy parking squads because they are most likely to pay up, it has been claimed.

War veterans, great-grandmothers and vulnerable hospital patients are singled out, with bosses allegedly telling wardens: ‘Ticket the elderly, they will pay.’

The ‘unjust and immoral’ practice has emerged as dozens of elderly drivers told the Mail how they were being threatened and pursued by bailiffs over minor parking queries .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk