TEMPERS FRAY AS LAW ENTERS PARKING JUNGLE

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Tempers Fray as Law Enters Parking Jungle

BELGRADE, Serbia (Reuters) - Serbian parking attendants have been attacked and shot at with airguns for enforcing new restrictions that took effect this week in downtown Belgrade, one of the worst parking jungles in Europe.
Dragan Jaksic, head of parking control in the city of 1.5 million, said two unidentified people fired an air rifle at two parking controllers, hitting the cap of one.

The daily Vecernje Novosti quoted Jaksic as saying a female attendant was attacked by a gynecologist who cursed her and tore his parking ticket to shreds.

Belgrade is chronically short of parking space and commercial lots and its sidewalks are often an obstacle course of parked vehicles shunted in at all angles -- an irritating eyesore the city authorities are now determined to eradicate.