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Anything that has to do with parking tickets and or getting your car towed, I tend to really feel for owner of the vehicle. I got so many bullshit parking tickets when I first moved to Chicago, that I noticed they were just giving out tickets that were during the authorized parking hours, because they know most ppl wont go through the trouble of fighting the tickets. It got so bad that I got 3 in a row that I fought and had the tickets dropped. I eventually sold my car because i didnt want to deal with the corrupt a$$ city meter maids anymore. But without knowing what happened to this chick, I'll just say she had one of those moments when she went off on someone. So what, it happens. Everyone has their bad days.
In DC there are some streets where instead of having meters they have little pass dispensers... so you go up, buy a pass for X amount of time, and put it on your dash. I once got a ticket while standing at a machine buying a pass... the guy literally walked right past me and stuck a ticket on my car that was no more than 2 or 3 spots away from the dispenser for that street. I got the pass and got back to my car just as it was printing. Then there was a five minute argument over the ticket (he eventually took it away and ripped it up... but I always secretly wonder if there's a ticket on my record somewhere just slowly destroying my credit) while I tried with every bit of patience I could muster to explain the logic of having to physically get out of my car and walk over to the station to buy the pass to then put on my dash because I haven't mastered teleportation and/or time travel at this point.
In Chicago, my favorite story from a friend of mine is that they got overnight parking guest passes for their apartment. So they filled one out and gave it to someone that was staying with them to use. That person was promptly given a ticket because the pass was filled out in pencil... when there is LITERALLY NO RULE AGAINST FILLING OUT THE PASS WITH PENCIL. They fought it with Chicago and won.