I parked in San Diego and paid the meter machine for 1 hour. I returned 20 minutes later and there was an official looking $30.00 ""ticket"" on my car. I took pictures of my car, parked in the right spot, ticket on dash, and time on ticket. I returned to the establishment where I had done business to inquire about what to do. One of their employees told me that it had happened to him a couple weeks earlier. I then went back to the parking spot and there was a girl there with the same issue. I called the number (during business hours) and of course got a recording. As I looked into this, I did notice that the ticket is labeled at the bottom as ""This is not a parking ticket. This is not issued by the police or any government agency."" They make it very easy to pay by including a SASE, and I am sure there are some people willing to just pay instead of going through the trouble of fighting it. Not me. Whomever employee number 17961 is (printed on ticket), they need to learn to read or tell time or both.
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