Bike's parking ticket 'a prank'

Pranksters have been blamed for putting the ticket on the bike

Pranksters have been blamed for putting a parking ticket on a pushbike in Belfast city centre.

The ticket appeared on a bicycle chained to a lamp-post outside St George's Church on High Street.

It was spotted by John Collins who took a picture of the arresting sight during the Belfast Carnival on Saturday.

"I asked a policeman if he'd put it on and he laughed and said it was most likely a traffic warden," he said.

However, the firm in charge of on street parking enforcement in Belfast, NSL, said that they had not issued the ticket.

"You cannot issue PCNs to any vehicle which does not have a vehicle registration mark, or number plate, which includes bicycles," a spokesman said.

"We certainly did not issue the PCN pictured here so we suspect someone must have removed it from somewhere else and attached it to the bike as a prank."

He warned that it was an offence to remove or interfere with a penalty charge notice unless authorised to do so.

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