Parking Tickets

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In our area parking tickets are $40 each when you park illegally park in a permit only area. I'm not sure what happened here, but every car on this block was ticketed! The owners are not going to be happy. Honestly, it seems like the meter maid (or butler?) made an error because I've never seen anything like this. How could every available space be taken by people lacking permits?