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Jury duty parking ticket in downtown LA turned into a small claims saga
Last month I parked in a lot near the courthouse for jury duty, paid $18 at the kiosk, but the ticket machine printed a receipt with the wrong license plate number. The lot owner refused to refund me after the tow threat, so I filed a small claims case for $240 total, which included the tow release fee. The hearing took about 20 minutes, but the judge actually asked the lot manager to show their audit log, which they couldn't produce, and I won. Has anyone else fought a parking lot mistake outside of traffic court, and did you find it worth the hassle?
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laura_allen1mo ago
Wait, they threatened to tow your car over a machine error? That part is wild to me. The kiosk printed the wrong plate, that sounds like their problem, not yours. I probably would've just paid it and been mad about it forever, but you actually got a judge to make them pull their audit log and they couldn't, so yeah, that $240 sounds worth it.
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