Lesley Mair noticed a lifeless sick person on the roads this week and without taking much time, she rushed to help the poor lady. But little did she know that in the meantime, traffic police was busy giving her car a parking ticket.

Lesley stayed with the woman, helped her till the time paramedics arrived on the scene. But when she came back to her car, she saw the traffic violation parking ticket. “My only concern was for the lady on the street, I wasn’t looking where I was parking,” she told the paper.

The authority has said that the parking ticket was deserved but they will look into the matter and if she was really involved in a medical emergency, then the fine would be waived off.

But some advocates would likely argue that Mair shouldn’t have to go through the hassle of trying to get a ticket retracted after simply trying to do the right thing.

When George Echenhofer was driving to work in Philadelphia in the summer of 2011, he saw a pedestrian get struck by a motorist, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. He pulled in front of a truck-loading zone, supported the victim and directed traffic around the accident scene until police and medics arrived. He was then also slapped with a parking ticket.

He took time off of work to plead his case to a number of recalcitrant employees at the Philadelphia Police Association (PPA) to no avail. It was finally dropped only once Philadelphia Daily News columnist Ronnie Polaneczky reached out to a spokesperson for the PPA.

“Echenhofer deserves an apology from the PPA, along with a pat on the back for being the kind of citizen who will stop to help a person in need,” Polaneczky wrote in an op-ed piece for the paper. “We should reward people like that, not punish them.”