{"id":17,"date":"2006-03-01T00:56:51","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T05:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2006\/03\/01\/to-die-for-parking-tickets\/"},"modified":"2010-11-20T01:07:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T06:07:09","slug":"to-die-for-parking-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2006\/03\/01\/to-die-for-parking-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"To die for parking tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>Creative new way to get out of paying parking fines:<\/p>\n<div class=\"b1291d92551e5c93995fce7897ccfc30\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* OddPlanet_300x250_inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3290981241\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Kimberly Du of Iowa wanted to avoid paying her parking tickets.  So much so that she faked her own death to avoid paying the $500 fine.   Du went so far as to write her own phoney obituary, made to look like a page from The Des Moines Register\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website. She also  forged a letter telling a judge that she had died in a car crash.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t there have been a police report for the car crash?  Especially if it resulted in someone&#8217;s death?  Perhaps criminal charges if another driver were involved?  I guess the judge didn&#8217;t check on the letter or the obituary because Du was caught one month later when she received another parking ticket.  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