We had parked our cars in a parking spot with a 4 hour parking limit. The time was almost up and we decided to go take our cars away because the Stadtpolizei was checking the cars already. I took my car and parked it somewhere else. My friend stayed behind and talked with the police that was checking the cars and asked her if he could remove the car, drive it around the block and then park in the same spot. She said “Yeah you can do that”, so he did and parked the car in the exact same spot after taking the car for a drive of around 3 minutes or something. When we came back, he had a fine for parking his car. He went to the local police station and asked what was the reason, the police that talked with him was there and said that he didn’t actually drive the car in a main road, thus it didn’t count and she gave him a ticket. My friend was extremely upset and told her she lied to him and could have said that he should have taken the car to the Hauptstrasse. They still gave him the ticket and there was nothing he could do about it. Is this really like this? If he drove the car around and parked in the same spot, why should he get a ticket even after the police told him he could do it? submitted by /u/Raclettegring
Originally posted by u/Raclettegring on r/Switzerland