A mother has verbally abused KFC after she was fined £100 for “waiting too long in the car park”.
Carolyn Bentham, 47, insists the only reason she was at the restaurant for an hour was the “slow service” at the fast food chain.
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The mother-of-two took her three and ten-month-olds out for lunch in Accrington, Lancashireon July 1.
She arrived shortly before 1:30 PM – but her food didn’t arrive until 2:05 PM.
After her kids ate — and got back in the car — she had exceeded her one-hour parking limit by just 10 minutes.
Shortly afterwards, the mother was ordered to pay a fine of £100.
Caroline told the Lancashire Telegraph: “This is absolutely not my fault and I should not have to pay this fine.
“It was impossible for me to safely eat my children and get them in the car in the twenty minutes I had left.
“It ended up costing me over £100 to eat out with my kids.”
The mother appealed the ticket – but she was denied.
KFC has been approached for comment.
Meanwhile there was a mother £100 fine for alleged parking at McDonald’s for nearly six hours – despite claiming to be home all day.
And a pensioner was stunned after he got a £100 parking fine for chatting with friends in KFC for two hours.
Former magistrate Tony Long visited the chicken chain in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham with his wife Pauline.
They met friends Roy and Lillian for the “first time in months” after the Covid restrictions and ended up staying for nearly an hour and a half and 45 minutes, unaware of a strict one-hour time limit.
Tony was dismayed when he was fined £100, but KFC later dropped the charges.