You can't park there, mate

The title is kinda ragebait here:

The video shows the contractor photographing the car after the painting is complete to alert the council not to issue a fine.

However, a parking attendant later placed tickets on the vehicle on separate days, as she was not made aware of the situation.

Croydon Council "apologised for the confusion" and confirmed that "the tickets were cancelled a week before the video was uploaded to social media".

The man decided to share the footage on social media after facing a backlash on Facebook from residents who believed he had parked in the bay knowing he was not supposed to.

Sounds to me like the real villains are the nosy neighbours looking for something to whine about and making the guy feel like he’d done something wrong. The council only made a minor mistake due to a communication error and rectified it quickly.

Apologies, mate. It turns out you can park there. Carry on.

I am glad that the rules in Germany are different. If you park your car in a public space, you need to check on a regular basis if it is still legally parked. If you leave the country for a while, you either can't park your car in a public space or you need to ask someone to check your car for you and park it somewhere else, if there is a reason for it.

I had a controlled parking bay painted around my car years ago... Thankfully the council saw sense...

American here: What about that paint would tell me it's a disabled spot? Ours have a metal sign, different colored paint and a wheelchair man in the middle of the spot.

I feel like this is something that happens quite frequently here