“Dear PoPville,
My partner, a very meticulous person, had an odd thing happen over the holidays and it sounds like a scam. He parked in the parking garage under the Columbia Heights Target. When he went to exit the garage a short time later he put his ticket in the machine and it said the ticket was unable to be read. The staff person at the exit took the ticket and later came back to say the plate number on the ticket didn’t match the license plate of our car and she asked my partner to follow her to the parking office.
The parking staff said my partner must have lost his ticket so he needed to pay the lost ticket fee of $25. They accused him of picking up a random ticket from the ground that had already been paid in order to exit the garage. This was untrue and my partner asked them to look at the cameras where he could prove this was not the case. They refused and asked for the $25. My partner called the police. The police came and basically told the parties to work it out. My partner paid $8 as a compromise but is convinced this was some kind of scam. Is it something other folks have experienced?”