A question to all the people who park in the wrong place.

[Cyclone]

But that wasn't his argument. His argument was that you can't defend an action by claiming that other people commit the same action.

That wasn't the defence though. It wasn't "other people parked badly so I thought I would as well", the defence was "other people parked badly, so my choice was to do the same or not park at all". Which I hope you'll agree is different.

That's true regardless of which particular action is being discussed. "He did it too!" is never a defence; not for murder, not for speeding, not for illegally parking, not for eating a sandwich. (Although eating a sandwich doesn't need a defence, since there's nothing wrong with doing so.)

There are a lot of cases where a minor transgression of rule will be forgiven for a mitigating circumstance, which is what I'm suggesting should happen here.