A man says he has been issued a parking ticket after visiting McDonald's twice in the space of 14 hours. Ben Mulhall, from Leeds, says he went to McDonald's to get a McChicken Sandwich for his dinner on September 30.
He drove home and then his wife went to the same McDonald's, in Killingbeck near Seacroft, for breakfast on her way home the next morning. Ben says the cameras have made a mistake and not captured him leaving the first time or the car arriving again, LeedsLive reports.
The parking ticket shows a picture of his car entering the car park at 5.56pm on September 30 and leaving the car park at 8.22am on October 1, and calculates that he was in the car park for 14 hours and 25 minutes. The fine is £100, discounted to £50 if paid in 14 days.
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The 32-year-old says he is appealing to the company that manages the car park. 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 McDonald's breakfast on her way back from a night shift and I think that's what they've caught the next day."
Ben has CCTV footage taken from outside his house that shows him binning a McDonald's bag at home at 6.29pm. He said: "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.
LeedsLive contacted both McDonalds and the parking company responsible for managing the car park. 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. The parking company that issued the ticket had not responded at time of publishing.
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