I was visiting a girlfriend at another college about a decade ago and decided to park in a completely empty lot near her dorm overnight. There was apparently no parking from like 1am to 4am or something ridiculous like that. Zero other cars in the lot.
Then just this past winter, my very next ticket, was after a snowstorm. Now my town has by far the most outrageous winter snow parking rules ever. When it snows more than 3 inches, there is no parking allowed ON ANY CITY STREET, PERIOD. It is certifiably insane. The length of the restriction is different each time depending on the storm. It's a town of about 30k outside of a city of 250k, but you'd think it was downtown Chicago or something with that insane statute. At least in the nearby city they do alternate side parking to allow plows to come through, that makes total sense to me. Anyway, I parked my beater about a half mile away in a city parking lot (which they encourage) during the storm. For two days I would walk there to drive it/clear it off. Once the storm passed, I waited until the plows went through and cleared the street. Then, I parked my beater in front of the house again (as did a lot of my neighbors). But alas! We all woke up the next day to parking tickets because apparently the "snow emergency" went until 5am. I am 100% certain the plows never came through again so there was no practical reason for those tickets other than revenue.
