Woke up this morning to reports of a prisoner that escaped from Detroit Receiving Hospital. He also managed to take off with the police officer's gun. They were looking for him around Wayne State University and the last place they had seen him was on Canfield and Third, which is about 3 blocks from where I park my car.
Pulled up to my usual parking street and realized that I won't be parking there anymore because they started to put up parking meters. I don't like to pay for parking. But since the meters weren't installed yet and just the poles, I parked there anyway.
After class I hung out with a couple people. Walked back to my car, watching for fugitives to the left, right, and front of me, and noticed the meters had been installed while I was gone. And I had a fucking parking ticket. Granted, if there had been a meter when I left, it would have been a 2 hour meter and would have expired had I put quarters in it. But there wasn't a meter there when I left so there was no way I could have put quarters in it to let it expire. I wouldn't have parked there if the meters had actually been there. And I probably shouldn't have parked there because even though the meter wasn't there, the pole for the meter was there. But I really didn't think I could get a parking ticket for not plugging a meter that wasn't even there.
And they still haven't caught the escaped prisoner. Perhaps the meter maids should be on the lookout for escaped prisoners as opposed to writing parking tickets for cars parked where there wasn't a meter in the first place. I'm going to tell them that when I call them...
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