A teenager responded with a tantrum and told a traffic warden it was none of her business when she gave him a parking ticket.

Dean Michael Shipsides also told the warden he could do as he liked and he wasn’t going to pay anyway.

However, Douglas magisrates disabused him of that idea, fining him £150 for the offence.

Jane Gray, for the prosecution, said the traffic warden ticketed Shipsides’ blue Toyota Yaris because it was parked in a disabled parking bay on Station Road, Ramsey, without displaying a disabled person’s badge. After about 10 minutes, as she was taking photographs of the car, the teenager, described in court as ’short, about five feet four inches’ appeared.

’He started to reverse away, stopped, tore up the ticket and threw it on the ground, said he might have a badge anyway and told the warden she should move as she wouldn’t want to get run over,’ Ms Gray said.

’He was told he had just committed a littering offence.’

In a statement, the 19-year-old apologised for being immature and said he was in a rush. As well as the fine, he is to pay £125 costs.