A trainee solicitor has told of his fury after he was given a parking ticket while waiting to turn right at a busy junction in Manchester.
Alexander Nejad, 31, said he was sitting in his car at a junction with his indicator flashing and engine running as he waited for a gap in the traffic.
He saw in his rearview mirror that a ‘predatory’ traffic warden was approaching his vehicle from behind and taking pictures of it on his official device.
‘I jumped out of my car and started filming him,’ he told MailOnline. ‘I’d been waiting for less than a minute for the traffic to clear so that I could turn out onto the main road.
Alexander Nejad filmed the moment when a ‘predatory’ traffic warden issued him a ticket as he was waiting to turn right at a busy junction in Manchester
The 31-year-old, a trainee solicitor, said he was sitting in his car at a junction with John Dalton Street with his indicator flashing and engine running as he waited for a gap in the traffic
He saw in his rearview mirror that a traffic warden was approaching his vehicle from behind and taking pictures of it on his official device
‘I jumped out of my car and started filming him,’ he told MailOnline. ‘I’d been waiting for less than a minute for the traffic to clear so that I could turn out onto the main road’
‘You can see from my video that the car is in the middle of the lane angled as if it was about to turn right.
‘He told me he was going to give me a parking ticket. He was really intimidating and patronising. It was ridiculous.
‘He was acting like a predator. I couldn’t believe what was happening.’
The incident took place in John Dalton Street on Saturday at 12:10pm when Mr Nejad and his girlfriend, a student at the university of Salford, were going for a day out at Media City.
He had turned down a side road called St James’s Square and found that it had been closed due to construction. As a result he performed a U-turn and was waiting to rejoin traffic on the main road when the traffic warden struck.
The parking official, whose name is unknown, refused to back down and appeared to suggest that Mr Nejad was trying to park.
Mr Nejad said: ‘He was really intimidating and patronising. It was ridiculous. He was acting like a predator. I couldn’t believe what was happening’
The incident took place on Saturday at 12:10pm when Mr Nejad and his girlfriend, a student at the university of Salford, were going for a day out at Media City
On the video he can then be seen ignoring the motorist’s attempts to reason with him.
When Mr Nejad threatens to lodge a complaint with the council, the warden responds: ‘okey dokey’.
In response, the trainee solicitor accused him of being ‘patronising’.
After failing to convince the traffic warden that his car was not parked, the unfortunate motorist was issued with a ticket.
He has lodged an appeal but has not yet received a response from the council.
He had turned down a side road called St James’s Square and found that it had been closed due to construction. As a result he performed a U-turn and was waiting to rejoin traffic on the main road when the traffic warden struck
The parking official, whose name is unknown, refused to back down and appeared to suggest that Mr Nejad was trying to park
On the video he can then be seen ignoring the motorist’s attempts to reason with him. When Mr Nejad threatens to lodge a complaint with the council, the warden responds: ‘okey dokey’
‘I’m training to be a solicitor and I know my legal rights,’ Mr Nejad said. ‘For him to treat a member of the public like that was completely inexcusable.
‘I was just so frustrated having to confront him like that and he was treating me as if I was stupid. I was so frustrated I could barely speak.
‘The public has a right to know what is going on with traffic wardens in our country. This is Britain, not the Wild West.’
A Manchester City Council spokesman said: ‘Anyone who receives a parking ticket has the right of appeal.
‘In this case, the individual has appealed and we are reviewing the evidence.’