John MacDonald: Parking fines need to be tougher

When I was a kid, growing up in Dunedin, I used to hear adults talking about The Blue Flies.

I don’t know if it was just a Dunedin thing. But I eventually found out that these Blue Flies people were talking about were parking wardens.

They were called Blue Flies because they dressed in blue uniforms and they were as welcome as a fly.