When a motorist in Ipswich, Suffolk [UK], was given a parking ticket by a traffic warden, one fine day in 1972, he said: “I had a rhinoceros with me — did you expect me to carry it?”
Later, in the local magistrates’ court, he explained that he was a sculptor and the rhinoceros was a 30lb steel model, which he produced as an exhibit to the Bench. He told the magistrates that he was delivering the rhino to a shop, and denied a parking offence. The Bench took is point and dismissed the summons.
Fenton Bresler, Beastly Law (Newton Abbot, Devon, UK: David & Charles Publishers; 1986).
