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Swede Puzzled by British Parking Ticket

Posted on: Sunday, 5 September 2004, 06:00 CDT

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish mechanic said Sunday he won't pay a parking ticket that claims his snowmobile was illegally parked in Britain this summer.

Krister Nylander said he received a ticket Thursday from a British company ordering him to pay a 1,211 kronor (US$160,euro133) fine for an alleged parking violation in Warwick in central England.

Nylander, who lives on a farm in Bollstabruk, 330 kilometers (205 miles) north of Stockholm, said he's never been to Warwick and neither has his snowmobile.

"The snowmobile is parked in my barn," Nylander told The Associated Press. "It has never left Sweden."

He said the ticket from the London-based company Euro Parking Collection claims his snowmobile was parked illegally in Warwick for three hours on June 22.

All information in the ticket is correct, such as the make of the snowmobile and the license plate number, he said.

Euro Parking Collection, which collects parking fines issued to foreign registered vehicles, did not answer calls seeking comment Sunday.

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