Palm Springs, a city perhaps best known for gouging tourists with dumb fees and giving the FBI plenty of files to read through, has a new problem on its hands: bogus parking tickets handed out based on magic marker scribblings on curbs.
In a story that is almost too bizarre to believe, KESQ reports that someone – they are not sure who – removed parking signs, painted over a curb, and handwrote “3 minute parking” with marker over it at the intersection of Tahquitz Canyon Way and Indian Canyon Drive . Then, people who parked there were given fines.
“When I came back I noticed there was a ticket on my windshield, and I was almost 100 percent sure an officer had made a mistake,” Roman Ocelo told the tv station.
The parking zone Ocelo parked his vehicle in was actually a 2-hour parking area and KESQ now says because of their investigation he will not have to pay the fine. The city will also be repainting the curb and replacing the signs.
The city contracts out its parking tickets to a company called Data Ticket Inc. and city officials claim they are now investigating how this happened. They also say anyone who got a ticket should contact the city.
You would think that for how much we are paying these people, this shit wouldn’t happen.
