Cue the Discharge, kiddos, because Britain's National Parking Adjudication Service has ruled that overzealous parking enforcement may violate the nation's Human Rights Act. Since many local councils have taken parking enforcement over from the po-po, towing-incident numbers have soared, leading to cooler heads in the national government to prevail on the yokels to calm the hell down and stop screwing people for the slightest infractions.
Towing cars may violate human rights [UPI]
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