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New App Allows Grassers To Grass Your Illegal Parking For £10 A Pop

New App Allows Grassers To Grass Your Illegal Parking For £10 A Pop

Nothing worse than a grass.

Josh Teal

Josh Teal

A busy grass parking firm is dishing out £10 to any person who takes a picture of an illegally parked car using an app called i-Ticket.

Simply decide that you can live with yourself as a snitch before snapping and uploading a photo of a car to UK Car Park Management along with its registration number.

The firm operates car parks for McDonald's, Tesco, Halfords and the NHS.

Usually, they have employed private traffic wardens or cameras to counter rogue parkers.

"The problem is not with the app but with drivers that do not respect people's land," boss James Randall, 32, said as if it's 6 BC.

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"The photo uploaded to the app is just the evidence and every one is looked at by a member of staff before a ticket is printed."

Although grassing is a terrible thing to do, app users are offered "complete confidentiality" so they can go about the rest of their lives without being the scorn of all society.

The victim drivers of these uploads are sent a letter demanding £60, which will jump to £100 after 14 days if no payment is made.

The automotive company, RAC, called the news a "recipe for disaster" which would invariably end in tears between the drivers and grassers.

RAC spokesman Simon Williams said: "This is wrong on so many levels it beggars belief.

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"The sharp practices of parking companies are already regularly called into question with paid officials dishing out fines, but with members of the public being financially encouraged to shop motorists who overstay, it's a recipe for disaster.

"This will cause total chaos by undermining trust still further and may even lead to public order offences between drivers and members of the public looking to earn a quick £10."

AA president, Edmund King, said: "We hoped that outlawing cowboy clampers would have got rid of these sharp practices but it seems that some of the modern day highwaymen are alive and well.

"Even Dick Turpin did his own dirty work without relying on others.

"Getting drivers to do their dirty work shows the lengths that some parking companies will go to in order to get drivers to stand and deliver their profits."

RAC spokesman Simon Williams said: "This can only be seen as a cost-cutting move from a private parking company trying to reduce its employee overheads by incentivising the public to do the job instead.

"Surely this private parking company's fees and fines are high enough to merit proper employees."

More than four million car details were grassed to parking companies last year by the DVLA, which earns £10 million a year from them.

Anyway, here's a bunch of other terrible apps for terrible people.

BANG WITH FRIENDS

Don't really have to go much further, do I? But I may as well.

This app, banned by Apple, is essentially for people who aren't making any tracks on Tinder. To score on BWF, you have to sort your Facebook friends into two groups: "Down To Bang" or "Up For Hang". Then you have to wait for other people to realise that they have nothing else to lose anymore and download the app themselves. If you get put in their "Down To Bang" category, it's wedding bells for you!

BLACK BOOK

This app, one of the lamest ever passed in the history of the smartphone, allows you to make anonymous sex calls from disposable numbers.
In case of emergency, users are implored to use the panic button which will take you over to a different website, and a PIN option in case your other half has a cheeky swipe through your phone.

TWEETPEE

This is an app where, with the help of a sensor attached to a baby's nappy, a tweet is sent to a parent when their child has pissed their pants. Think about that. Imagine being so negligent that you have to download an app and go out of your way to strap a sensor to your baby, just so you know when it pees. It's a baby. All babies do is pee, poo and cry. At any given moment they are doing one of those things.

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Topics: Car, app