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Abandoned car in airport parking lot gathers $106,000 in tickets over 3 years.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/23/214847930/bill-for-three-years-in-airport-parking-106-000?utm_source=NPR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130823
Chicago resident Jennifer Fitzgerald has finally settled her airport parking tickets — $106,000 worth of them.
But she'll pay just a small fraction of what she originally owed under a deal she's reached for a car registered in her name that was left for nearly three years in an employee parking lot at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
According to a lawsuit that was dismissed last week, Fitzgerald's ex-beau, Brandon Preveau, who worked at O'Hare, abandoned the 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, where it began collecting tickets on Nov. 17, 2009.
Fitzgerald, who compounded the problem by failing to show up in court, says she couldn't access the car because it was in an employee lot. And, according to The Chicago Tribune, the vehicle became a sort of ticket magnet over the next three years:
"Tickets went beyond the car being abandoned in the lot. Fitzgerald was also ticketed multiple times for improperly tinted windows, not having the proper city sticker, expired plates or registration, cracked or missing windows and broken lamps, according to the lawsuit.
"In all, 678 tickets were placed on the car without it ever being towed, according to the complaint."
But she'll pay just a small fraction of what she originally owed under a deal she's reached for a car registered in her name that was left for nearly three years in an employee parking lot at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
According to a lawsuit that was dismissed last week, Fitzgerald's ex-beau, Brandon Preveau, who worked at O'Hare, abandoned the 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, where it began collecting tickets on Nov. 17, 2009.
Fitzgerald, who compounded the problem by failing to show up in court, says she couldn't access the car because it was in an employee lot. And, according to The Chicago Tribune, the vehicle became a sort of ticket magnet over the next three years:
"Tickets went beyond the car being abandoned in the lot. Fitzgerald was also ticketed multiple times for improperly tinted windows, not having the proper city sticker, expired plates or registration, cracked or missing windows and broken lamps, according to the lawsuit.
"In all, 678 tickets were placed on the car without it ever being towed, according to the complaint."
Why the hell didn't they just tow it?
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Seems like that many tickets would overflow an average trash can.
Maybe they cracked the window and filled up the car.
