This story took a bit of getting my head around.
Here in the UK, you can rent out the driveway of your home to someone who needs a parking space in the vicinity. Martin Lewis has an article about it here.
Similar schemes seem to run in Australia.
One of them is called "Parking Made Easy" and it is them who feature in the story above. The story is headlined...
Wish someone would pay your parking fine? Now they can.
So what is to stop you parking wherever you like and then getting them to pay your fines?
Herein lies the catch.
They will only pay off the fine of one lucky winner of a draw performed every month. Bad news for the motorists of Queensland at least...
So the initial headline is misleading.
Maybe not surprising since the author, Kathryn Fisk admits to having worked for The Sun - a paper aimed at the hard of thinking. She has also apparently worked on two "renowned" UK regional publications although I can't find anything by her outside of Australia. Google does come up with the message, "Some results may have been removed under data protection law in Europe." which means that someone has stated that they don't want irrelevant stuff they've done searchable. So I tried Bing. Someone in Silicon Valley must have been briefly excited that somebody outside of Microsoft had just used Bing but they also couldn't find anything by her.
You'd probably have more luck finding an article by me.
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