'Er, that don't look right...'
These astonishing pictures show Transport for London trying to tow away a car in London recently – and then dropping it.
According to one observer the driver waited for 20 minutes in Morden, looking at his watch, before pouncing on the Mercedes E-Class that was apparently illegally parked.
All going well so far except, oops, when it is 15 feet in the air and half over the flatbed, he dropped it.
The Merc then just ‘sort of hung there’ before the owner turns up.
Now it's just hanging around..
According to those who were there, he is just 10 minutes over his parking time – so it would appear that they had been waiting for it to go over the time.
This would be funny if it wasn’t so stupid…
This is what a TfL spokesman had to say: 'Regretfully, operator error caused the vehicle load in this instance to overbalance.
'The car was returned, undamaged, to its owner at the scene and the operator concerned has undergone retraining.'
Thanks to 'Pump 19' at www.t595.net for the pics.
'Probably better there...'
As if nothing ever happened