Parking app will pay busybody snoopers a TENNER to snap photos of illegally parked cars on their smartphone
Anyone unlucky enough to be caught by UK Car Park Management's amateur traffic wardens will be hit with a HUGE fine
AN UNPOPULAR British parking firm has released an app designed to turn ordinary people into traffic wardens.
A company called UK Car Park Management has offered people a bounty of £10 if they use its app to grass up people who are parked illegally.
Traitorous busybodies will be able to confidentially submit pictures of fellow Britons in exchange for a small sum of money.
Their unlucky victims will then be hit with a massive £60 fine which quickly turns into £100 if they don't pay up within 14 days.
The sneaky app is designed to trick customers into thinking they have been caught by a real parking warden and will mask the identity of the person who dobbed them in.
Landowners will also be able to use the app to set up their own no-parking zones.
James Randall, boss of CPM, : “The problem is not with the app but with drivers that do not respect people’s land.
“The photo uploaded to the app is just the evidence and every one is looked at by a member of staff before a ticket is printed.”
CARMAGEDDON: Here's what UK Parking Car Park Management says about the app
"Not only is the service free, you even receive £10 commission for every paid Parking Ticket!
"With 3 simple steps CPM will issue a parking ticket to the vehicle owner, using DVLA data and the postal service.
"Complete privacy! Not only is the issuing process quick and discrete, CPM also operates under complete confidentiality.
"Our parking tickets and signs have no reference to yourself, all correspondence are designed to make the motorist believe they have been caught by a CPM Patrol Warden."
Normally, CPM relies on professional wardens and Automatic Number Plate Recognition machines to do its dirty work.
It boasts of running car parking schemes for the NHS, McDonalds and Tesco, operating more than 1000 sites across the UK.
The firm's new app is yet another way of raising vast sums of cash by punishing motorists for relatively minor offences.
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Motoring organisations warned the app could lead to violence, as furious motorists clobber people who are trying to take pictures of their car.
Edmund King, president of the AA, said "modern day highwaymen are alive and well".
He said: “Getting drivers to do their dirty work shows the lengths that some parking companies will go to in order to get drivers to stand and deliver their profits.”
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