Parking Tickets: Lucrative, Unfair

CBS2 busts out a local news classic: bogus parking tickets. Take it away, Pam Zekman!

According to the report, more than 2 million parking tickets are issued in Chicago every year (seems like a lot, right?), 273,000 are contested (also a lot?) and 53 percent of those are dismissed. Sweet muscular Jesus, that's a lot of paperwork. And it's adds up to $160 million in state revenue, too. At least cops hate getting tickets, too.

If you've been wrongly ticketed, take some photos, gather your own evidence, and contest it. Fight the system!

"Why I Don't Street Park Anymore" by P2wy