A DRIVER was slapped with a $63 ticket after he left his car for less than an hour due to a shopping center’s crackdown on who uses their parking lot.
Town and County Village, a shopping center in the San Francisco Bay Area, demanded the shopper pay the fine after walking off their property while he was running errands.
Palo Alto resident Jay Chesavage parked at the shopping center to bring something to his wife across the street, according to the Palo Alto Daily Post.
After getting a smoothie, he returned to his car 45 minutes later to find a notice on his windshield.
The ticket demanded he pay the $63 fine, with the violation noted as a “walkoff.”
“It just didn’t occur to me that it would be prohibited,” he told the Post.
Chesavage refused to pay the ticket.
“Demanding payment under false pretenses is more commonly known as a scam, and I’m sure your business doesn’t want to be known as operating a scam,” Chesavage said in a letter on December 13 to the shopping center and the parking service that issued the ticket, according to the Post.