Matt Armstrong by his car in the disabled parking bay (Picture: SWNS)

If you had woken up on April 1 to find a disabled bay painted round your car and a parking ticket on the windscreen you might think it was an April Fools’.

And those were the thoughts that ran through the head of Matt Armstrong when he was greeted with that exact scenario on Friday.

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Sadly, for the theatre worker, who lives in West Norwood in London, this was no prank but a Lambeth Council mishap that left him ‘livid’.

‘They put in this disabled bay which no one needs, painted it under my back wheels and then gave me a parking ticket,’ he told the Evening Standard.




It would seem the confusion came from a request from his neighbour two-and-a-half years ago to paint a disabled bay for her husband.

The parking ticket also appeared overnight (Picture: SWNS)

But Matt said that despite her calling a few times to cancel the request, the work still went ahead.

‘I was livid when I saw it,’ he added.

‘Is this what we pay our council tax for? It’s an absolute joke.’

Lambeth Council has since cancelled the parking ticket (Picture: SWNS)

Lambeth Council said that Matt’s £110 fine had been cancelled.

A spokeswoman added: ‘We’ll cancel the fixed penalty notice and are investigating why there was some confusion around the marking of the disabled bays.’

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