Watch the man who has been fined £50 for throwing pieces of McMuffin
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A motorist fined £50 for throwing pieces of eggs and cheese in a Morrisons car park.
62-year-old Ian Chapman threw pieces of McDonald’s McMuffin to seagulls from his car window in a Morrisons car park.
He was then fined £50 for littering.
However, the 62-year-old man says that it is an easy way for them to make an income and he doesn’t think he has done anything wrong.
He said: “I can’t understand. They’re criminalizing hard-working people, for what reason I don’t know. It just seems like extortion to some degree. It’s absolute pettiness and that’s how they create an income.”
He said that he opened the window of his car and threw two tiny bits of bread from his bun to about 20 seagulls.
“And that was it. You can imagine two pieces of bread between about 20 seagulls. It was gone in seconds”, he added.
Two days later, the man received a fixed penalty notice from Nottingham City Council for ‘leaving litter and moving away’ and was fined £50 for littering.
Councillor Toby Neal said: “This involved an incident when one of our officers observed someone throwing a significant amount of food waste from the window of a car. It was clearly an act of littering, which wasn’t disputed at the time since the fine was paid.”
“We’re not in the business of stopping people feeding birds, but if that becomes dumping a lot of food waste on the ground as in this case, then we will act to keep our city the cleanest in the UK and dissuade others from thinking that littering is okay.”
Ian, who is a member of the RSPB and Bat Conservation Trust, insisted that he only threw two bits of bread out of the window and if he was intending on littering, he would have thrown more than two bits of bread.
He said: “I would’ve thrown the rest of it, and the packaging. It wasn’t food waste. It was at my expense, these two little bits of bread. It’s not in itself a crime.”
“I would never dream of littering. It seems crazy that they do this to ordinary people.”
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