A newly discovered species of tree has been named 'No Parking'. What
happened was the National Museum of Wales set about finding new species, or
sub-species of trees. They discovered a new whitebeam and named it 'Sorbus
no parking'.
The team did not confine their search to Wales and they found this new
tree growing in a layby at Watersmeet in North Devon, UK. As this was
a layby, a local official had once nailed a 'No Parking' sign to the trunk
of this particular tree.
When they listed the no parking whitebeam in Watsonia, the official
journal of the Botanical Society of the British Isles, they chickened out
and called it Sorbus admonitor (Admonish tell-off).
Two anniversaries coincided with this search for new species in March
2009, the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of
the publication of his seminal work 'Origin of the Species' in 1859.
All give and no take.
As nurses in a National Blood Service van were taking blood from volunteer blood
donors, so a jobsworth was issuing a parking. The parking attendant informed the
amazed driver that he did
not have permission to be in a parking bay. One anonymous donors said
he had been giving blood in the same spot for 4 years without trouble.
Zero public spirit.
Yellow Line Fever. Mike Fox of Salisbury Road, West Ealing, London, kindly agreed that contractors
could move his car so that they could paint yellow lines. A waiting
traffic warden pounced and issued a parking ticket in the spot where the
contractors had parked Mike's car.
One morning
Michael Dickinson of Hendon, parked his car perfectly legally. The road
had never had any parking restrictions. However, when he returned in
the afternoon, he could see that a yellow line had been painted up to his car,
and furthermore a warden had slapped a parking ticket
on his windscreen.
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