BATON ROUGE – For some students at Louisiana State University, what used to be a quick coffee run is turning into a costly mistake.
Students say parking cameras near a campus Starbucks have led to hundreds of dollars in fines for briefly stopping in what university officials say is a designated fire lane.
Cassidy Wartelle said she first learned about the tickets through social media, after seeing a TikTok video of a student who joked her coffee ended up costing nearly $300 because of a citation captured by a camera mounted on a nearby pole…