We have just come back from a holiday in Devon and took my elderly parents with us. My mum is disabled (she has problems walking because of a broken hip that didn't heal properly and back pain associated with having had Polio as a child). On Friday we went for a day out in Torquey. I parked the car in a disabled bay and checked on the parking metre for parking fees. I know that often in Cornwall and Devon you still have to pay for parking even with a blue badge so I was fully prepared to pay. I was pleasantly surprised to see that parking for blue badges was free and so put the badge in the window and off we went. A short time later my dad went to put something in a bin, close to where we had parked and saw that I had been given a parking fine. I found the Traffic Warden and asked him why and he told me that it was because I was in a four hour only parking space and I had not properly displayed the time on my clock next to the blue badge. I told him I couldn't see any such sign about four hour parking, and he told me that if I disagreed then I'd have to appeal, and that he would not cancel the fine there and then. I paid the fine because I knew that a) it would be halved if I paid within the two weeks and b) because there is no way I could travel from London to contest it at Torbay Council.
I'm prepared for a flaming, but I'm still going to ask, AIBU to be totally outraged by the petty actions of this Traffic Warden?