A story that aired on KESQ this week brought to our attention a scam in Palm Springs that is almost too dumb to believe actually happened. People, we are told, got real parking tickets issued based on a curb that had “3 MINS ONLY” written by hand in marker. While, obviously, the first question that comes to mind is, “dafuq?” – there are other questions we all have about this as well.
They are:
- Seriously?
- Wait, c’mon. Seriously?
- I don’t understand who benefitted from this scam – did the tickets have a fake address to mail your fine in or something?
- Were people told to pay their fine in gift cards the same way “the electric company” tells old people to do on the telephone?
- If real tickets were given, shouldn’t it be pretty easy to see who issued them and, oh I don’t know, make sure they are not allowed to issue parking tickets anymore?
- How long was this going on for before someone thought, “hmmmm…a ticket given based on magic marker writing on a curb seems suspicious”? (note: the ticket in the story was issued on July 20 and the curb was just painted over yesterday, so it could have been going on for at least 2 weeks – which is insane)
- Did anyone actually pay the fine and is the city going to track them down and give their money back?
- Considering the Palm Springs City Manager makes more than the President of the United States, shouldn’t he know about shit like this going on in the city?
- When whoever did this started scribbling with a marker on a curb, did no one think that was a bit weird?
- This really happened?
I would like to thank the city in advance for answering these questions.
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