'pay & display' tickets

as an aside, none of the articles seem to mention any details of the 'pay&display' tickets (except that they were 'valid') in the luton car park - lets assume they were valid for the day until the bombers were expecting to return to go home in peace.

the purpose of pay&display is that they have inspectors at the luton carpark who walk around and check that the tickets are valid, otherwise they ticket the car. obviously. if i was the parking inspector at luton and there were 2 cars that had parked on thursday (at least one a rental), and i could see that they were racking up parking fines, and i knew that a series of bombs had gone off in london, id wonder whether the car(s) might have belonged to someone who got hurt in the attacks.

remember, those first few days the police could hardly identify anyone who died - perhaps the parking inspector could have helped out a bit.

and given that the bombers may have come through KingsCross, i probably would have put a call into the police or something. the parking dude didnt make that call at all (friday, sat, sunday, monday, tuesday) - the police didnt learn about the cars till the leeds raids on tuesday when the car rental company folks (who were told not to say anything) happened to turn up when the police were there.

i dont necessarily make anything of it - but it seems a bit odd.

its not inconceivable that some parking inspectors are doofi - but we'd have to assume that quite a number of them saw these two cars - we had the day shift and the night shift and weekday and weekend shifts of inspectors...

so , just speculating, is it possible that the cars had, say, weekly parking tickets, and thusly no suspicions were raised? if so, did the bombers buy them? that wouldnt fit with the story that they intended to drop off their bombs and go home.

or did someone else place the tickets in the cars? maybe when they planted the other explosives in the car?

i wonder what time the parking tickets were datestamped.