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'Everything's bigger in Texas, like a $640 parking ticket'

The title of this post is the headline to a story out of Arlington from the Fort Worth Star Telegram. Here's the gist:Tweed Clark stopped briefly at the Arlington Municipal Court to pay her daughter's $250 speeding ticket. So, how did Clark end up with a $640 parking violation of her own? Clark admits that she parked in a yellow-striped space next to a handicap space for a few minutes March 8 but said she never saw a "no parking" sign until after an officer pointed it out to her while writing the ticket.In Arlington, the fine for blocking access to a handicap parking space ? the violation for which Clark was cited ? is the same as for illegally parking in a handicap space. Clark, who is fighting the citation, said she has written and called Mayor Robert Cluck and other city leaders asking them to consider reducing the fine...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 28, 2010 (boomark / email).