He did everything right. His Los Angeles parking fine kept growing anyway ^19.5%

Los Angeles Times - By Fedor Zarkhin - 4/13/2026, 10:00 AM

Negativity Bias 16.5% - Appeal to Emotion 13% - Biased Writer Voice 12.9%

Paul Cook wasn’t about to fold — not with Mohandas Gandhi’s words ringing in his ears. Never mind that the issue at the center of the David-versus-Goliath fight was a parking ticket that he could afford to pay. Never mind that if he was the David, then the Goliath was the Los Angeles Department of Transportation’s parking division,... more