Earlier this year, by a stroke of luck, I avoided a false ticket.
I was parked in a 2 hour maximum free spot in Boston. I was gone no more than 1:15 and as I turned the corner going back to my car, there was Mr. Parking Gestapo just taking his book out to write me up. I hit the panic button on my remote starter, which went off and startled him. I yelled “What are you doing? I haven’t been parked anywhere near two hours!” at him.
The fat f*ck didn’t say a word, took a few steps to the car parked in back of me and wrote that car up. I don’t recall that car being there before me, so that person got the fake ticket...
That’s a shame that cities are reduced to that to raise revenue; I just avoid them altogether. Good for you for getting out of it. I think as more and more public area is under some type of camera surveillance (not even necessarily from law enforcement), some of those “fake tickets” will taper off. Imagine you subpeona surveillance footage from a Quick Check that shows you were only there 10 minutes...