Wensley-fail! Council ask for cheese payment
‘No stink’ caused by spelling blunder
Paying for parking can often leave you feeling a little cheesed off.
But Scarborough Council have now taken that to the next level – by asking residents to pay for their parking permits with a block of cheese.
Bungling council typists had spell-check to blame for the gaffe, which declared permits were payable by cheese instead of cheque.
But rather than the mistake grating on residents, they instead declared it ‘brielliant!’
“It gave me a bit of a laugh,” said Numi Solomons, 55, who spotted the error when a friend showed her the letter before posting it online.
“You have to apply to the council for a parking permit, so a friend of mine who had applied came into my antiques shop to show me.
“Luckily she wasn’t in a pickle.”
The letter – which reads ‘I enclose a cheese made payable to Scarborough Borough Council’ – has received over 400 responses online.
Scarborough Council claim “an administrative error” is behind the embarrassing error.
But Whitby business owner Numi said there’s “no way it could be a genuine error”, adding: “The only explanation would be if someone spiked it for a joke but I wouldn’t like to just speculate.
“It’s not an auto-correct error so I don’t know how that got in there. “It’s crackers.” A spokesperson for Scarborough Council said: “Unfortunately there was an administrative error when the document was produced.
“Obviously the word should have been ‘cheque’.
“We hope the mistake hasn’t confused too many people and we thank those who have looked on it in a lighthearted way for their understanding.”