£1.1M Parking Fine on Bounds Green Road!

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Permalink Reply by Kari Koonin on May 16, 2012 at 16:43

Hang on a minute, that makes an average of £785 per ticket. Yeah, right!

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Permalink Reply by Richard McKeever on May 16, 2012 at 16:46

Very well spotted!

Looks like the data analysis may not have been very thorough?

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Permalink Reply by Kari Koonin on May 16, 2012 at 16:52

Not thorough enough data analysis from The Sun? Surely not!

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Permalink Reply by TomJH on May 16, 2012 at 21:55

C on the maths front! Isn't that £78.50 per ticket? That's the bloody camera car they have on the yellow hatches near where it joins the road joins the A406. To a turning into a trading estate?!? Just a revenue exercise. One I have been caught in! Hence my annoyance. 

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Permalink Reply by Richard McKeever on May 17, 2012 at 7:05

Tom, you are of course correct - £78.50 is the average fine... but in defence of weak mathematicians - the Sun story gives two sets of figures £1,002,360 in the box graphic and the incorrect 1,1,002,360 in the running text.

I am always happier with words rather than numbers!

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Permalink Reply by Kari Koonin on May 17, 2012 at 7:35

Likewise! Oops.... ;-) And yes, I did get a C in Maths....

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Permalink Reply by TomJH on May 17, 2012 at 21:50

You passed then~ 

Sorry I couldn't resist the C grade comment - it probably should have been a D..! As C is OK..

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