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Persistance Pays Off In Mistaken Boot Tampering Incident
Woman Gets $750 Refund After Red Tape Over Yellow Boot
After a long and tiring airplane trip, the last thing you want to be waiting when you land is a surprise.
A “surprise” is what Megan Nolan and her young family came back to after flying into Midway and walking back to the parking lot to find a bright yellow metallic boot adorning their car nearly two weeks ago.
It is not uncommon for unwary drivers with outstanding unpaid parking tickets, especially those from outside Chicago proper, to find their car booted after parking in any of the airport parking lots at O’Hare and Midway. In some ways it’s like shooting fish in a barrel and boot crews assigned to airport parking immobilize a lot of vehicles.
Tired and aggravated, Nolan waited by the car with their two children while her husband Andrew walked the two blocks to the Midway payment office. Both Midway and O’Hare have payment offices open 24 hours a day for drivers to pay their tickets to get a boot released.
Nolan thought she they’d have to pay a few hundred bucks at most to pay for the pair of unpaid tickets and the boot fee to have their car released.
She knew the drill. Having had her vehicle booted twice before about a decade ago, before moving to the far western suburbs back in 2004, she was grudgingly resolved to just paying up and getting on the road home.
“I had been booted a long time ago,” explained Nolan. “I just paid my tickets. I didn’t yell. Didn’t scream. I just paid what I owed.”
But the Nolans got a jolt when the city told them, in addition to the two outstanding parking tickets and boot fee, the city was looking for an additional $60 boot fee and a $750 fine for tampering with a boot on an immobilized vehicle that was allegedly theirs back in 2010–a $810 shock.
Tampering With A Boot Can Be Costly
Two For Tuesday Denver Booting
Double your pleasure.
It’s two Denver boots for the price of one.
An Expired Meter reader caught not one, but two cars sporting bright yellow Denver boots, parked next to each other on Milwaukee Ave in Wicker Park last Tuesday.
I bet these easy pickin’s made that booters day last week.
The two drivers? Not so much.
Thanks to our friend Kevin P. for the keen eye and great photo.
