Edinburgh road workers were forced to leave a car-shaped gap in a new road - after a Mercedes driver failed to move his vehicle.
The council had dished out 'no parking' notices and even threatened residents on Parkgrove Terrace that they would see their cars towed if they didn’t move on time.
But despite this, there was still a silver Merc on the road when workers showed up for the job, giving them no choice but to lay the new road around it.
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A resident told the Scottish Sun: “We've been crying out for a new surface after suffering potholes for years - now it's perfect apart from one Mercedes-shaped patch."
It comes as we reported Edinburgh’s top ten worst roads, revealing that the council had fixed more than 16,000 road defects in 2021 alone.
A rural Edinburgh road likened by locals to the surface of the moon has taken gold as the capital’s worst pothole-affected street.
Long Dalmahoy Road has seized the top of the road defect league table for 2021 as the location visited most often by local authority resurfacing teams.
The five-mile stretch between Kirknewton, West Lothian and the Heriot Watt University campus leapt up from third in 2020 after one resident described the surface as being ‘full of craters’.
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Nearby Ravelrig Road also earned a podium finish in third, with Ravelston’s Blinkbonny Road taking silver in second.
Data revealed by freedom of information (FOI) legislation uncovered the ten streets in which road surface issues had to be fixed most often in the first six months of 2021.
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