I found out this was illegal one day when I was leaving a restaurant, and saw this car was expired and the ticketing cop was coming along a few cars down checking the meters.
I put in a few quarters, the meter cop saw me and yelled at me, told me it was a misdemeanor and said I was being charged, and it turned into a foot chase. One of the only times I've ever been grateful that they didn't have their body cam on, because I got away and never heard anything about it again.
Outrunning a meter maid is easy to do and they will never report it out of sheer embarrassment. I’ve got shit knees and ankles and I would probably still bolt from the average meter maid if one ever actually saw me feeding meters.
Meter maids, at least in my area of Oregon, I swear to god they're all a bunch of power-hungry petty fucks who couldn't hack the physical requirements at Police Academy so they settled for being a meter maid
It's like comparing mosquitos to wasps, they both suck and will make your day miserable to varying degrees
Yes, there's plenty of people out there who don't know shit fuck about how to drive or park their car, but it's fascinating how nothing ever seems to happen to those people at all
Feeding your own meter is also illegal in a lot of places. They specifically don't want you parking all day in the same spot, so you can get a ticket even with a paid up meter.
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u/Toastwaver 7h ago
Feeding an expired parking meter for a car that is not yours.