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9%
2 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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A woman has admitted to using her 75-year-old father's blue badge to go shopping in London.
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woman → see → London
The driver was filmed returning to her black Mercedes which was parked on Windsor Road in Ealing at around 2.30pm on Monday to find she had been given a parking ticket.
She also said that she was 'in the wrong' for using her elderly father's blue badge which is a criminal offence and could result in it being confiscated.
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it → film → badge
Video footage showed the woman returning to her vehicle with a Kova Patisserie bag before Ealing resident Mark Uddin asked: 'Why are you using a man's blue badge?'
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you → show → badge
With a surprised look on her face, she replied: 'It was my dad's, I was going to pick him up.'
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I → reply → him
After being confronted on the use, the woman said: 'I won't do it again, I'm sorry.
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I → confront → it
I admit I'm in the wrong.'
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I → admit → wrong
It is illegal to display a blue badge if you are not travelling with the holder or picking them up from the place of parking, according to the Department for Transport.
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you → display → Transport
The badge must not be given to friends or family to allow them to go shopping and offences can lead to a £1,000 fine.
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offences → give → fine
A woman was caught using her 75-year-old father's blue badge to park and go shopping
Mark Uddin, known on social media as Walking Marky spotted the woman using the badge incorrectly while speaking to a local on the road
Mr Uddin told the Daily Mail that he was 'chatting to a resident when she parked up, put the blue badge in the window and disappeared'.
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she → catch → window
'I had a look at the blue badge after she left and I saw that it was for an elderly man,' he said.
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he → have → man
The former Green Party candidate continued speaking to the resident when a parking warden 'ticketed the car and walked off'.
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warden → continue → car
After about 20 minutes, the woman returned to her car with the bag of shopping and the interaction began.
But the 62-year-old said the woman's use of the badge was 'ridiculous' because it costs just £2.50 to park at Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre for two hours.
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it → return → hours
'This is how gross it is,' he continued.
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he → continue → ?
'For the sake of £2.50, she misused her dad's blue badge and wound up with a parking ticket.'
'The shops are just next door, a few minutes from Windsor Road and the tube is a five-minute walk away.'
Mr Uddin added: 'And was the woman's father even aware that his daughter was using his blue badge?'
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daughter → misuse → badge
The woman's misuse is the second time in just two days a driver has been caught incorrectly using a blue badge on Windsor Road
On August 29, a man was caught using a 74-year-old woman's blue badge to park his car
The man grabbed his belongings and walked off when asked why he was using the blue badge without saying a word
The apparent misuse is the second time in just two days a blue badge has been used by someone other than the holder to park on Windsor Road.
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badge → catch → Road
A man was caught using a 74-year-old woman's blue badge to park his grey Toyota on the road on August 29.
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man → catch → August
When Mr Uddin questioned him on the badge's use the man grabbed his belongings and walked off without saying a word.
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man → question → word
He previously told the Daily Mail that he has reported more than 1,500 people who have committed car-related misdemeanors to Ealing Council.
'The whole system to stop misusers and faulters is totally broken.
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system → tell → misusers
The public needs to be more concerned about this,' he said.
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he → need → this
Ealing councillor Dominic Moffitt said: 'The blue badge scheme is a vital service for disabled people to access the support and facilities they need.
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they → say → support
'Blue badge abuse is not a victimless crime and it will not be tolerated in Ealing borough.
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it → tolerate → borough
'Where we receive allegations of blue badge misuse, like this, they are carefully considered and would form part of investigations into potential prosecution.'
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