Parking Company Apologizes to Formerly Dead Woman for $80 Ticket

I liked my first headline better—”Parking Company Apologizes for Ticketing Woman While She Was Dead”—but my ridiculous obsession with accuracy forced me to change it. She did die, briefly, but had been revived by the time she got the ticket. The original headline—”Woman dies, comes back to life, gets parking ticket“—was also good, but the apology seems important. Even though it turned out to be insufficient. A New Zealand company ironically named “Smart Compliance Management” did apologize to a woman it ticketed for leaving her car in a parking lot too long on July 26. The lot is outside a supermarket in Orewa, north of Auckland, and parking is free for up to 90 minutes. At some point, Smart Compliance Management noticed a car had been parked in the lot for almost six hours. It issued a ticket (the report calls it a “breach notice,” presumably because it alleged a breach of the parking contract) a few days later. The woman responded, explaining that the only reason the car was there…