A McDonald's fan who was sent a fine for spending 14 hours in the fast food giant's car park laughed when he first saw the letter.
Ben Mulhall says he has been issued a ticket fining him for spending more than 14 hours in a McDonald's car park - when he was actually at home.
The 32-year-old told Leeds Live he drove home after getting his McDonalds Chicken Sandwich from the Killingbeck branch on the evening of September 30.
But the fine he has recently received in the post states he was seen leaving the car park the next morning.
Ben, who lives in Halton Moor, says the cameras have made a mistake and not captured him leaving on September 30 or arriving again on October 1.
He is currently appealing to the company that manages the car park on behalf of the fast food giant.
Ben said: "I know sometimes you have to wait for your food but I definitely didn't wait that long.
"I was amused when I got the letter. I wasn't angry or annoyed, I just like exposing incompetence.
"The cameras must have just missed me leaving and the car coming back in.
"My wife sometimes likes a McDonalds breakfast on her way back from a night shift and I think that's what they've caught the next day."
The parking ticket which Ben received shows a picture of his car (a white Volkswagen Golf) entering the car park at 5.56pm on September 30.
Ben said this is correct.
It then shows a picture of his car leaving the car park at 8.22am on October 1, and calculates he'd been in the car park for 14 hours and 25 minutes.
The fine is £100, discounted to £50 if paid in 14 days.
Ben has CCTV footage taken from outside his house that shows him binning a bag that looks like a McDonalds one next to a white car, with the time stamp in the corner reading 5.29pm on September 30.
However, Ben believes the CCTV camera could set to UTC (an hour earlier) and was actually taken at 6.29pm, showing him after returning home - when his car was supposedly still in the McDonald's car park according to the ticket he's received.
"I have lodged an appeal with the parking company," Ben said.
"I doubt I'll hear back for days though."
Ben added that he does not intend to pay the parking ticket while he waits to hear back about his appeal.
McDonalds said customers should speak to the parking control company if they believe they have been wrongly fined, and that Ben's appeal should be approved if he has been fined incorrectly.
