http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/parkingcontrolservice http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/parkingcontrolservice Another blow for libertarianism. The People's Republic of San Francisco has forced Parking Control Service, the energetically entrepreneurial local company whose employees placed $40 "parking violation fine" tickets on cars in lots around SF and Marin, to refund drivers who paid the tickets. PCS — whose tickets looked convincingly like the government-issued kind, including fine increases for every so many days unpaid — is owned by the same company that operates California Parking lots. I dunno. Bluffing me for forty bucks was more upfront than the old parking-lot practice of having my car towed and taking a kickback.

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