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How Not To Pay a Parking Ticket

Posted by samzenpus on from the living-in-terror dept.

cohensh writes "A Purdue engineering student was arrested for terroristic mischief. After receiving a parking ticket and having a boot put on his car he put the ticket, boot and payment in a box and left it at parking services. Someone thought the box was suspicious and the building was evacuated. Eventually it was traced back to the student who was arrested for 'leaving something that a reasonable person may think is a weapon of mass destruction.'"

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  1. Re:Moronic Laws and the People that Abuse Them by H0p313ss · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Kinda like a Democrat having a gun pulled on him. A good Democrat pleads for his life, a good Republican on the other hand would simply pull out his own.

    And statistically speaking, who do you think is more likely to survive the encounter?

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  2. Re:Moronic Laws and the People that Abuse Them by HeLLFiRe1151 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Whoever has the least to lose.

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  3. Re:how the hell by ^_^x · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If someone booted my car and I could remove it myself, I'd simply dispose of it and say "what? I thought you already sent someone to remove it while I was out after I paid the ticket!" and leave it to them to audit and trace and sort out. They'd assume I wasn't the one to remove it.

    I think the risk of damaging the wheel rims and fender, with the problems of locking a car into a place it shouldn't be in the first place is needlessly punitive, risky, and counterproductive, so I'm glad they don't use them where I live (Alberta).