New York City parking ticket for Vermont excavator baffles town officials – WCAX

New York City parking ticket for Vermont excavator baffles town officials  WCAX

A Vermont town's excavator that weighs 5 tons and rarely leaves its garage somehow got a parking ticket in New York City. LINCOLN, Vt. (WCAX) – Town administrators in Lincoln have been fighting a parking ticket for months, saying there’s no way the citation, issued by New York City, makes sense. That ticket was for the town’s 5-ton excavator, which they say hasn’t even left the garage often, much less been to the Big Apple. “This is totally wrong, this is totally incorrect,” Lincoln Town Administrator Trish Waugh said about the ticket that came in the mail. The fine claimed the town’s excavator was parked illegally in Queens and came with a $115 fine.

Reporter Connor Ullathorne: Could you even imagine this on a New York City street? Trish Waugh: No, I’ve been on New York City streets, especially Queens. How does this get parked on a street and anybody able to get by it? Waugh said things aren’t adding up, especially because it would be nearly impossible for the large vehicle to make a near-300-mile trip south. Traffic-free, it would take 12 hours. “Max speed is 25 miles per hour. I’m pretty sure you would run out of gas,” Waugh said. She said the excavator’s main use is to move the sand pile out back, and it rarely leaves