[ianjay]

Well, this story is an interesting contrast to something that happened in Toronto last week. An American tourist parked his Nissan Sentra in an EV space in a downtown office tower while attending a rock concert. Forgot where he had parked. His father, pissed off that his idiot son had lost the car, went on social media offering a reward for the discovery of the car. And sure enough, people went out looking and found the car.
In Toronto, the owner did not get a ticket, was granted a reprieve from paying the accumulating parking costs, and got a free bluetooth device to help him find his lost car the next time.