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Parking Ticket Nightmare? Share Your Story

Everyone has a parking ticket horror story. What's yours? Share the story of your most annoying, unfair or frustrating parking ticket.

With talk of new regulations that would , we thought it would be a good time to share those parking ticket horror stories. 

Is there still that one ticket that irks you for being unfair or unlucky? How about the time you were three minutes late to your meter, only to find a parking ticket already slapped on your windshield? How much have you spent on tickets because you forgot it was street cleaning day? 

Parking officers issued around 25 parking tickets every hour in Berkeley last year, and the city is planning on upping that number — and increasing revenue — . The city currently makes an average of $1.5 million in revenue each year from parking tickets.

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What has been your worst parking ticket nightmare? Share your story in the comments below.


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