Parking in Los Angeles is a well -known hassle, but imagine that you are charged almost $ 8,000 by an automated machine that wrongly showed that you were parked there for three years. That is what happened with Cate Daniels last Friday after a visit to 45 minutes at the Glendale Memorial Hospital in La County. The automated machine of the parking structure of the hospital parking structure calculated Cate Daniels $ 7,829 after a visit that didn’t even last an hour. The receipt claimed that Daniels was parked for the first time in the structure in 2022, and when she tried to correct the problem, she said that a parking assistant accused her of being there for weeks and would not resolve the problem.
Daniels was visited last Friday to visit Glendale Memorial Hospital for a cancer screening, which is unpleasant enough without a parking costs of $ 8,000. She told Kcal News, “Two different people have said that things like this happen to that party. I think I’m not the only one with this happened.”
The parking company accepted the error, but it took a week and a lot of hassle to receive a refund
Allegedly, Daniels tried to reason with a parking assistant after she had seen the indictment on her reception and registered the interaction in which the supervisor refused to accept her explanation about the issue. Because she did not receive the help she needed to resolve the absurd expensive indictment, Daniels decided to contact news stations to publish the problem.
As soon as the news story ran on Tuesday evening, someone in the hospital stood out and asked her to return so that they could give her a refund. A spokesperson for the hospital told Kcal News: “The error resulting from a computer disorders within the parking system, wrongly charged the person for a longer period. We immediately acknowledged the error and started the process of returning the indictment.”
The hospital apologized for the incident and the parking contractor, Parking Company of America, acknowledges that the indictment should never have taken place. The company is also planning to replace the defective parking machine.
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