Except that in many places
they are pursuing a monetary agenda and not a public health & safety one. One evening I erroneously parked one street over the borough line in Westminster when my Resident's Parking disc was RBKC. Potentially I was depriving a Westminster resident of a space - except I wasn't because there were loads free. £250 to retrieve it from the pound + taxi to get there + the dinner I'd shelled out for.

Utter, utter bastards.
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:23, 1 reply)

So you're so stupid you don't know where you live
and were penalised for parking somewhere where you don't live. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 27 May 2010, 23:00, closed)