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fielden@spot.Colorado.EDU (j.a. fielden) writes:

> I have seen tickets on cars with time left on the meters. . I guess the 
>assumption is that if there is less than 5 minutes left you are not going 
>to make it back before it expires. They are hard to dispute because how
>can you produce evidence that there was time left before the ticket was 
>written(in the case of the non-computerized meters). 

There is a practice, especially among poverty stricken grad students who
don't qualify for parking lot permits, of placing an old ticket on the
windshield when parking.  The desperate hope is that the parking nazis will
not ticket an already ticketed car.  That may explain the tickets residing
on windshields of legally parked car with time left on the meter.

>Another one I love is when I put half an hour on a meter come back in
>25 minutes and it's already expired. I swear some of those meters are
>fast so you end up putting more than enough money to ensure you've got
>enough time. 

I have definitely been *gotten* with this one.

Barb
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Barbara G. Davis                       Internet:  davis@ucsu.colorado.edu
University of Colorado, Boulder 

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