Parking officials face off with furious English drivers

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NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , LONDON
Thursday, Jun 10, 2004,Page 6

Nadhim Zahawi was headed home on his scooter earlier in the year when a car lurched his way, hurling him into the middle of a busy road.

As he lay in an ambulance at the scene, his left leg broken like a breadstick, an incredulous bystander ran up to his stretcher to inform him that a parking enforcement officer had just ticketed his mangled scooter. In that instant, Zahawi became a poster boy of sorts for a parking enforcement system "gone mad," as he puts it.

"They are totally ruthless," said Zahawi, the managing director of YouGov, a polling company. "The system needs reining back."

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