Police on parking meter piddler's trail

A parking meter piddler was today continuing to elude police despite being filmed in action.

A hidden camera was placed in Napier City Centre car park after motorists complained to Napier City Council that one meter kept being found filled with urine.

The footage shows a man approaching the second-floor parking meter - which cannot be seen from street level - looking around, then undoing his fly before urinating up in the air.

Police said the offender was aiming the urine through the coin slot and it was then coming out the hole where people collect their tickets.

The council said someone had urinated on the car park unit four or five times in the past year, and it was the only machine being targeted.

Sergeant Wendy Wright said today it was possible there was more than one person but that it was unlikely.

"It's such a peculiar thing happening so it's probably the same person."

Ms Wright said so far they had not had any response from the public but they were still hopeful.

- NZPA