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Have you received a parking ticket of late? If you have you may wish to continue reading to discover some of the most unusual reasons that penalised motorists have tried using to get off their parking fine. They range from the odd to the outright daft.

With the average cost of a parking ticket in or around London now topping a whopping 120, have to admire these unlucky motorists for trying their hand. Anyway, just what is the point of having a valid ticket when the council have now introduced a law for displaying more than one ticket in your car, even if one of these tickets is valid?

One of the more inventive motorists, trying to avoid a fine for driving in a bus lane came up with a UFO for his failure to pay his fine. The driver was so captivated by what he described as a UFO he inadvertently drove into the bus lane and was subsequently fined.

Are you colour blind? If so you may want to try this one; another unjustifiably fined motorist stated that they were unable to distinguish colour, and the yellow line they were parked upon was actually green at the time.

A council spokesperson has said that the imagination of some motorists was "quite impressive". What's the weather like outside today? Well if it's currently raining you may believe you can park anywhere you fancy right? Well according to this motorist, bad weather is a given for a free for all: "It was raining. I thought I could park anywhere if the weather was bad."

Director of environment and housing, Gill Davies said: "UFOs and colour blindness unfortunately do not count as legitimate reasons to overturn a ticket. The imagination of some of these drivers is quite impressive. "

Director of environment and housing at Southwark Council, Gill Davies said: "The imagination of some of these drivers is quite impressive, but UFOs and colour blindness unfortunately do not count as legitimate reasons to overturn a ticket."

Some motorists who park illegally in central London could receive written or verbal warnings instead of a 120 fine, Westminster City Council has said.

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