One way to avoid parking tickets

shop at this guy's store.

Apparently, Martin Herdman really hates meter maids (or, as they call them in Jolly old England, "traffic wardens"). He put up a 1,000-watt public address system outside his shop and recruited a network of "spies" to alert him the instant they spotted a parking attendant in the area. Then, as soon as the alarm was raised, he started playing a recording of a Second World War-style air raid siren over the system. Mr Herdman's early warning system gives customers a chance to move their cars before they are ticketed by the warden.