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Parking Dodge
Situation
Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.Situation
After trying for weeks, Clive Gordon managed to get two tickets for Sunset Boulevard at the Adelphi Theater on the Strand. Traffic was heavy and he arrived at the theater with only minutes to spare. He had neither the time nor the inclination to look for a garage. He parked the car at a meter, which he did not even bother to feed, although it was already on excess. He had no disabled badge and yet he knew he would not get a ticket. How did he manage it?
Hint
It wasn't a weekend, so the parking meter was enforceable.Answer
He removed a parking ticket from another car and stuck it on his. The police wouldn't give out two tickets.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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wrong i did that once but someone pinched the ticket i had stolen so i got a ticket in the end...you can never be 100% sure
I thought maybe he was the traffic warden, and knew he was off-duty!
You don't think the police on that beat would know whether they gave that car a ticket or not?
Missie, you are obviously not from the US. Here, one parking ticket does not immunize you from further tickets for the same offense.
Parking may also be free on evenings and weekends.
It is highly unlikely that he found a spot with a meter in the first place…….
i went to a website a few months ago looking for some info on a parking infringement. there was a site that had been written by ticket inspectors (my oh my did they have too much time on their hands), anyway, what they basically said (amongst other things) is don't assume that just 'coz you've got one ticket you won't get another, if you continue to infringe, they'll continue to hand out the tickets...
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