“owed”? They should say “extorted”. After all cities are notorious for setting up impossible parking conditions then fining the beejebbers out of the unfortunate.
I remember my first parking ticket. I was 16 or 17, had to go to the down town OKC library for some reason. I don’t remember the reason. It must have been school related as you couldn’t pay me to drive downtown.
But I remember coming out of the library and seeing a tow truck hooked up to my orange 1971 Opel GT. Meter maid in present. I asked her why as my meter was paid up. She pointed to the bottom of the meter poll and it had a sticker wrapped around it. The sticker allegedly gave a time of operation otherwise it was a tow zone. Well the sticker on the meter was weathered to illegibility. That fact I pointed out to the heroic meter maid. She told me “everybody knows you can’t park here between (such and such a time)”. I responded “everybody but me”. I still got the ticket and had to pay the tow truck driver $50 I didn’t have to not tow my car.
So I have zero zip nada respect for cities and their parking schemes.
Go soak your head Detroit. Screw you overstuffed worthless gubment cheese swilling tyrants!
Detroit and most lib cities are so bad the city should have to pay the citizen to drive in and park.
Had a blue '70 Opel GT. Bought it new, had it for 35 years.
I agree!Parking tickets are extortion when the people pay for the roads!
“So I have zero zip nada respect for cities and their parking schemes.”
Every place they try to “revive” downtown somebody points out, “Why should we go down there and suffer the parking indignities and restrictions, run the gauntlet of bums, crazies and knock-out game players when I can go to the mall or a shopping center that’s private with free parking and no bums?” And, you know what? I wouldn’t go downtown if you paid me. It’s not just the Nazi parking checkers it’s the sheer danger you don’t usually get in private businesses.
There is no reason to go downtown anywhere. (Tampa, after hours, is turned over to roving street gangs. You’d be crazy to go thee.)