I’m so fed up with drivers parking on the pavement I’m handing out my OWN tickets

A FUMING pensioner has told how he is so fed up with drivers parking on the pavement he hands out his own tickets - then REPORTS them to the council.

Tony Weafer, 68, refuses to leave the house without carrying a batch of his Pavements For People stickers.

The pensioner from Shirley, Southampton, then stalks the streets looking out for “abandoned” motors parked up on pavements near his home.

And if he deems the parking “dangerous and unnecessary” he will slap one of his infamous red and white stickers on the windscreen.

What's more - he'll even take a picture and then report the vehicle to the council so the owner faces the consequences for their bad parking.

Tony told the his unusual pastime came about a few months ago after "people started testing their luck and were getting away with it" on Shirley High Street and on surrounding roads.

He explained: "Parking on the double yellows, the pavement, and it’s just getting worse and worse.

“The other day a young gentleman parked on the pavement just to pop in and get his haircut. There’s parking just around the corner!”

But Tony taking action into his own hands has wound him up in trouble with locals infuriated with what he is doing.

Recalling one particular incident, Tony said he once noticed a shop owner leave their their van on the pavement.

He then marched into the shop to notify the owner of the error - he was asked to leave the store immediately.

The incident became so heated a council enforcement officer was even forced to intervene to resolve the matter.

But Tony is defiant, insisting: “That’s all it needs. If it is enforced, things can get back to normal.”

The pensioner claims that without proper parking enforcement "the people walking along are the ones who suffer".

Tony claimed: “I’ve seen a blind person bump into a car and accidentally walk in the road to try and find their way around it."

Ward councillor, Satvir Kaur, told the Echo: “Drivers parking on pavements is an extremely selfish act, that puts others at risk.

"It not only makes it harder for other drivers and cyclists trying to weave past a half mounted car that shouldn’t be there, but it particularly makes it more difficult for elderly people, those in wheelchairs, or that use pushchairs to use and enjoy our local high street safely."

A city council spokesperson said Shirley's parking is enforced when resources allow and a solution is being sought.

Despite Tony's actions - some of the pavement parked on along Shirley Road to Shirley High Street corridor is private - so the authority has no powers.

They concluded: "This means that for those vehicles that mount the pavement and park in front properties the No Waiting yellow lines on the highway will not apply to these areas."