‘I called their bluff’: Frugal driver saves $80 on a parking ticket by pushing back on the fine print and threatening legal action

Parking tickets are objectively the worst. As drivers, all we ever really want is to pull up with ease, park right away, and move on with our lives, but if you live in a city, your odds of finding a parking spot immediately are slim. Sharks lurk in their tiny parking police golf carts, waiting for impatient drivers to slip up, so they can slap an irksome fee on your windshield. Heed my words, never mess with the parking police– unless they mess with you first!

However, when a driver is unjustly fined, they're entitled to some sort of explanation. But hiding behind 1,000 layers of bureaucratic tape, it's not easy to just reach out to your local parking enforcement and file an appeal on your ticket. In fact, it's design to be so tedious and such a complete waste of time, that most people just sign, sign the dang ticket, and send it back with a check just to avoid the hassle. But not u/ItsPronouncedTribe. The OP in this story was not going to let a technicality hurt his wallet in any way, so he decided to give the ticket pushers a little push back in response to an unjust parking ticket. 

Scroll for the full story of malicious compliance, poker faces, and triumph over a shady system. For more relatable tales of taking a win in the real world, check out this story of a down-to-Earth manager who saves a young employee from his mother's disappointment.

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