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A driver who found what he thought was a fake parking ticket under the windshield of his vehicle was surprised to learn the ticket was real.
The motorist discovered the dubious-looking ticket posted on his car parked at Richlands train station in Brisbane’s southwest on Tuesday.
That same day, he uploaded a photo to Reddit with a caption that said the fine didn’t seem legitimate.
‘Scare Tactic Or Are Police Really Handing Out Parking Tickets In Richlands Train Station Parking Lot?’ he wrote.
“It looks fake and even looks like an ink printer was used.”
A driver was shocked to discover that what he thought was a fake parking ticket (pictured) was actually a real ticket.
The ticket read “QLD POLICE PARKING TICKET”.
‘(Infringement Notice) has been issued for this vehicle and will be mailed to the registered owner.’
A Queensland Police logo was printed on the right side of the note.
The driver who did not want to be named told Daily Mail Australia he suspected the ticket could be fake as the ticket had very limited information printed on the front.
‘[It] “They didn’t have an incident number or anything that made them look authorized,” he said.
“I looked at it and thought ‘this has to be fake’… I even wet the thing [ticket] a little bit and we let it run and [the ink] looked like [it was printed by] an inkjet printer.
He discovered the parking ticket was not fake after posting the photo of the ticket online.
‘Unfortunately, it is not false. They are used when the police issue a ticket from your iPad. The ticket is printed and mailed to the registered owner,” said one user.
‘This happened to me once years ago. I received a parking ticket but it was sent to a previous address. I had no idea and continued living my life,” another user wrote.
Others said the bill appeared to have been mass-printed, although it did not appear to be counterfeit.
The driver discovered the fine after parking at Richlands train station in Brisbane’s southwest.
“It seems real to me, not official.”
The driver, who was using his partner’s car at the time, claimed that he had been fined for parking in the wrong place in the train station car park.
Several parking spaces were marked with yellow lines, meaning that drivers cannot park their cars in the spaces as they are marked for the safety of pedestrians.
The man, who moved to Richland just two months ago, said he wasn’t the only one fined.
‘Every day going to the station seeing everyone else parking there [I’m] saying “it must simply be a gentlemen’s agreement.”
“It wasn’t just me, it was all the people who were parked there that day got it.”
A Queensland Police spokesperson told the Daily Mail that the fines are real and are issued by officers to motorists who commit a parking offence.
The driver parked his partner’s car in a parking space marked with yellow lines, which means that drivers cannot park in that space.
“These are legitimate parking tickets left on unattended vehicles by Queensland Police,” the spokesperson said.
“As the violation notice is sent to the address of the person to whom the vehicle is registered, the paper notification is placed on the windshield so that the driver knows that he has received a violation while he is away from the vehicle. vehicle”.
The driver admitted he shouldn’t have parked in that space and said he now has to get his partner to transfer the fine to him so he can make the payment.
“I’ve resorted to walking to the train station now, I’m not going to risk it,” he said.