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Pensioner fined for littering after police knock cigarette from
his hand while arresting shoplifters
Tom Kelly
UK
Daily Mail
Monday, Dec 08, 2008
A grandfather was left humiliated after being handed
a £60 litter fine when his cigarette was knocked out of
his hand as he walked past a scuffle between police and shoplifters.
Lazaris Michael, 76, had taken a single puff before
his smoke was sent flying as officers apprehended two girls who
were trying to flee a branch of Boots.
But the pensioner did not have time to bend down
and pick it up before a council warden pounced on him and hit
him the fixed penalty for littering in front of a large crowd.
When he begged the council to show common sense
and drop the case they responded by threatening him with an even
bigger fine if he does not pay up.
Mr Michael, a retired restaurateur from Margate,
Kent, said: 'I am well known by the residents of this town and
this was utterly embarrassing.
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'I've been shopping on this street for half a century
and this has never happened before. I never drop litter.
'I was on my way to pick up a prescription for my wife when two
policemen were apprehending two girls and bringing them out of
the shop.
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