Toronto Drivers Are Trying To Park Illegally By Slapping Old Tickets On Their Windshields

Nice try, Toronto! 😁
Toronto Parking Tickets With Old Dates Are Apparently Being Used To Try To Trick Police
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Residents of the GTA appear to be getting creative in their attempts to evade Toronto parking tickets.

A Toronto Parking Enforcement Officer took to Twitter on Tuesday, August 18, to expose an apparently well-used strategy: putting outdated tickets on your dashboard to avoid getting a new one.

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The ticket also had an address that didn't correspond to where the car was parked.

The officer had seen this trick before, however, and issued the trickster a $100-fine. "I know this game," she wrote, also suggesting that it happens pretty often around the city.

That sure is sneaky, Toronto, but just not sneaky enough.

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    Abby Neufeld was a writer at Narcity Canada. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English and Professional Communications at the University of Victoria. Her past work has been published in The Toronto Star, Bitch Media, Canadian Dimension, This Magazine, and more. In 2019, Abby co-founded The New Twenties, an environmentally-focused literary and arts magazine.

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