Amusing - http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_weblog/2008/03/the-ten-crazies.html
but not as brilliant as this:
*The author of a book about the parking situation in London says that area city councils routinely issue tickets to city-owned vehicles but then dispute the tickets, requiring them to appeal against themselves in an effort to force themselves to pay themselves the amount of the fine. Or in an effort to not pay it, I guess.
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The council that sued itself was Islington, which believed (wrongly) that its individual departments had independent legal status. In 2007, an Islington officer ticketed an Islington vehicle, but the department that got the ticket appealed. Because the department is not a different entity, in legal terms the council was appealing a ticket it got from the council, and under the rules above, the council was hearing its own appeal. After the council rejected its appeal, it then appealed again to the Parking Adjudicator. But having appealed, it then presented no evidence, and the Adjudicator voided the ticket. Feeling its appeal had been an outrageous waste of time, the council asked for costs, thus accusing itself of having acted frivolously, vexatiously and/or wholly unreasonably toward itself. The Adjudicator declined to award costs, pointing out that “[t]he legal status of the two parties in this appeal amounted to one and the same.”
Several other councils have reportedly sued themselves as well, including one that managed to win its case and so had to pay itself the fine.*