A parking ticket slapped on Hillary Clinton’s car by a British traffic cop reportedly drew protests from the former secretary of State’s security detail.
Even in a relationship as special as ours, there are limits and Hillary Clinton well and truly overstepped that mark at the weekend when her people-carrier parked illegally in London – and was promptly slapped with a ticket by a London parking warden, despite a posse of security men leaping out of the car and trying desperately to keep the man away from her vehicle.

But British parking attendants are made of sterner stuff than that on like their Nigeria counterpart, the NIGERIA POLICE FORCE. It takes more than a few heavily armed secret service dudes to put them off. And, most importantly, in this country, just because you are a former first lady and secretary of state, that doesn’t mean you cannot pay your £3:30 hourly parking rate and expect to get away with it.

The £80 ticket (which is the equivalent of about $130) was issued Saturday while Clinton was attending an event in London, according to the Daily Mail.

The silver Mercedes Benz used to transport the former first lady was parked in a spot that costs about $5 an hour.

A photographer at the scene told the Newsmen he saw five of Clinton’s guards waiting inside another vehicle parked next to her car because it was raining. After the ticket was issued, Clinton’s security team “jump[ed] out of the van in protest.”

“The photographer claimed he saw one of the agents angrily waving his arms and flashing his badge to the warden, who remained unflustered and continued to issue the ticket to Mrs. Clinton’s vehicle,” the paper reports.

A London City Council member was quoted as saying about the parking dustup: “’Despite our traffic marshal being questioned by the Secret Service for just doing his job, he was in the right.”

The official added, ‘The former US Secretary of State was parked for nearly 45 minutes without paying. I’m sure she will understand that we have to be fair to everyone, regardless of their status on the world stage.”

The issue has become unsurprisingly contentious in London, and in 2011 London Mayor Boris Johnson asked US President Barack Obama to pay the outstanding charges when he attended a Buckingham Palace banquet.

“Could you please write me out a cheque for £5million?” Johnson asked him.

Louis Susman, Obama’s ambassador to London intervened, replying, “I think this is a matter where our position is already well known.”

Johnson was at least more diplomatic than former London mayor Ken Livingstone who called the American ambassador, "a chiseling little crook," over the issue.

The Americans refuse to pay, saying the charge is a ‘tax’ from which they are diplomatically immune.

Cllr Daniel Astaire, of Westminster City Council, told MailOnline: “Despite our traffic marshal being questioned by the secret service for just doing his job, he was in the right.

The former US Secretary of State was parked for nearly 45 minutes without paying. I’m sure she will understand that we have to be fair to everyone, regardless of their status on the world stage.”