How To Rack Up Thousands in Parking Tickets

Nick Vautier has received more than three thousand dollars' worth of parking tickets. He didn't deserve a single one, he says. According to The Newspaper,

...[t]he problem began when Vautier thought it would be fun to put a personalized plate with his initials, NV, on his white Mazda Miata convertible. "It seemed like a good idea at the time," Vautier wrote on a website he set up to express his frustration, 100parkingtickets.com. It turned out, however, that NV was meter maid code for "not visible."

Rotten luck, because jurisdictions throughout the state began sending Vautier tickets, alleging that he was responsible for improperly parked vehicles of every imaginable description.

After spending countless hours on the telephone attempting to resolve the issue with court clerks, the besieged motorist finally gave up his plate. Still, Los Angeles and Oakland refuse to acknowledge his innocence. ... Los Angeles, for example, accused him of illegally parking a blue Ford, a silver Hyundai, a blue Chrysler and a blue Chevy truck, all with the same license plate.