Bogus Parking Tickets
Did Parking Services hire someone new or something?
posted about 13 years ago
Today, while I was walking back to my car, I noticed numerous yellow ticket envelopes on people's car windshields on UMBC Blvd (near the UMBC Research park). I thought this was interesting because all of the automobiles had "A" permits visibly hanging from their rear-view mirrors inside their windshields. I ultimately dismissed these tickets as perhaps people who hadn't updated their parking pass to the 2011-12 school year or something.
I was astounded when I got back to my car to find that I too had a ticket. Miffed, I opened it to see what on earth I could've possibly been charged with. It was a $20 ticket for: "IMPROPER PARKING," with a note in the comments section that reads, "NOT PARKED IN DESIGNATED SPACE."
Now I don't know what all the other tickets read, but I'm thinking they were something similar to mine. I find myself wondering whether the University has someone new doing parking enforcement, because my car was parallel parked inches from the curb, quite literally directly under one of those signs that says something akin to:
"A Permit Holders Only"
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I'm seriously wondering what on earth my infraction was, because anyone who doesn't require a seeing eye dog to get around should've seen the sign casting a shadow on the hood of my car as they wrote the ticket.
Did anyone else get a similarly bogus ticket for parking utterly legally today?
