'[My chargeback] valued at more than the parking ticket': Woman wrongly ticketed by local parking enforcement is resolved to make them pay, submits chargeback for her original parking fee

Brad Dickson • Managing Editor

Sep 18, 2023 9:00 AM EDT

Few government agencies carry out their tasks with as much zeal and reckless abandon as local parking enforcement. Park your vehicle in the wrong place, and you can guarantee that they'll be there—watching, waiting, with foam frothing around their mouth—you'll have a ticket on your windscreen faster than a prairie fire with a tailwind.

But sometimes, it doesn't matter if you parked in the wrong place… Sometimes, you still get ticked despite doing everything you possibly could have. And, once the ticket is received, whether or not you actually deserved it, is of little consequence; a labyrinth of bureaucratic dead ends, general feigned incompetence, and lack of accountability on the part of the administrations will ensure that you eventually just give up and pay the fine so that you can move forwards with your life.

And there really is nothing like being repeatedly ticketed for parking somewhere where you were legally allowed and already paid for. This is why when this car-parking car parker found her car had been ticketed despite already paying to park there, she became resolved to cost them as much money as possible for their incompetence.