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CdA Parking Ticket Irks Californians

Item: Parking pain: Little-known law in downtown Coeur d’Alene irks California tourist /Ryan Burnett, Coeur d’Alene Press

More Info: What sticks in the Sherwoods’ craw is that they moved their rental car that afternoon before the time limit had expired, as to avoid a citation. They just didn’t move it far enough. “We debated on whether to do more shopping, since parking is such a pain, but we saw a car two cars in front of us pull out and we decided to stay a couple more hours and we moved into that vacant spot,” Cindy said. But the letter of the law says that cars must be moved at least 300 feet to count as a new parking spot, thereby granting another 2 hours.

Question: When did you last get a parking ticket?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog