sudden enforcement of over 48 hours parking rule?

[inq.livejournal.com]

went out of town for a week last week and when i got back, the car had 4 $20 tickets for being parked in one spot for over 48 hours. i've lived here a long time and never have i seen this enforced on my particular street (it's a little one-way street near davis in somerville). so, for $80 i guess i should have just driven to the airport and parked there, but i wondered if anyone else had been suprised by this arbitrary and capricious enforcement? (yes, that's the language from my letter of appeal.) also, at least one of these tickets was a mere 8 hours after the one previous, which doesn't seem to make much sense...

new parking officer, perhaps? i noticed a couple of other people on the street had a nice little ticket collection going as well...

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[joylewis.livejournal.com]

Actually one of the parking meter people said that they mark the position of the tire stem to determine if a car has been moved or not. (I appealed a ticket in a similar situation--I was the only car on the block that had shoveled out at the end of a snowstorm a couple of years ago, and mine was the only car on the block with a ticket for not having moved.)