Dead man gets ticket for parking too long in 2-hour zone

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A parking-enforcement officer unknowingly gave a parking ticket to a dead man in the driver’s seat of a car Tuesday afternoon.

The officer had marked cars with chalk at about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday and returned just after noon to find one car with a chalk mark still parked in the same place. The zone where the car was parked, on the 1700 block of Airport Way South, was a 2-hour parking zone. The driver, a 36-year-old man, was seemingly asleep in the driver’s seat. The officer rapped on the window to wake him and tell him to move the car, but she got no response. The officer assumed the man was a sound sleeper and put a $42 parking violation on the car’s windshield.

Full story: Local News | Dead man gets ticket for parking too long in 2-hour zone | Seattle Times Newspaper