The photo on the right is a stock photo but the author would like to think it serves as a metaphor what actually happened. Credit: SWNS
Parking can be pretty expensive. I mean, in Manchester city centre you're looking at at least a tenner for all-day parking. That's fucking pricey, but it's nowhere near the price of what one lad in Ashford was asked to pay.
James Adams was handed the enormous invoice for three parking trips, with his car parking bill coming to an incredible £1.4million.
He used the mobile phone app Parkmobile to pay for parking charges on three visits in July, but when he logged on to pay the bill at the end of the month he discovered a big surprise.
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Luckily for James it was a mistake and he was actually meant to have a £14.10 charge and the app had accidentally added a load of zeros onto his invoice.
The car park charges £5.20 for up to 24 hours of parking, which means that if he were to have the money, he could park there for 271,154 days in a row - or nearly 743 years.
James said: "I was quite shocked, but I knew it had been an error. I dread to think that it might have frightened the life out of some other people.
"I logged into my account to the car park and saw there were too many zeros.
"I spoke to the company and they said there had been a cock-up at their end and I saw the funny side of it."
Parkmobile has apologised for the error and James doesn't have to stump up the million after all.
Fair play.
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Words by James Dawson