Man Furious: Note On Windshield Didn’t Magically Render His Parking Legal

“I can’t believe the insensitivity of these [parking enforcement] people. They have such chutzpah.”

Jerusalem, December 2 – A driver who wrote an explanatory message for municipal enforcers, noting that he placed his vehicle in a zone where only local residents may do so only because he was attending a Shiva observance nearby, expressed outrage today upon discovering, when he returned to the car, that an enforcer had nevertheless issued him a one-hundred-shekel fine, as if his carefully-crafted message had not somehow transformed his use of the spot into a permissible act.

Yotam Ben-Zikri, 55, voiced his anger at Jerusalem Municipality parking inspectors this afternoon as he removed from his car’s windshield and examined a ticket that one such inspector had placed there several minutes earlier, despite the presence inside the same windshield of a note he had written specifically for the occasion, which explained that he would only occupy the spot for a short while, and asked the inspector’s indulgence for parking on the same short street as his destination instead of spending a few more minutes looking for a spot elsewhere in the neighborhood where he might have to pay and possibly walk a few minutes more.

“That son of a whore!” barked Ben-Zikri, an electrician by trade. “I wrote a note!” The father of three and soon-to-be grandfather then spat in frustration, piqued that his stratagem to spare himself a few shekels and a few minutes  had mysteriously failed to render his placement of the non-local vehicle in a locals-only spot legitimate.

“I was just going to be a few minutes!” yelled the upset driver to no one in particular, having spent just over an hour inside the home of the bereaved family, part of the extended Ben-Zikri clan. “I can’t believe the insensitivity of these [parking enforcement] people. They have such chutzpah.”

Ben-Zikri stalked off down the street, hoping to encounter the inspector who had placed the ticket on the windshield of his 2021 Škoda Octavia. The quest proved fruitful as he spotted a woman in the right uniform entering the plate number of a car into her device, querying the municipal database to determine whether the vehicle owner resides in the proper zone. Ben-Zikri held his ticket aloft and approached within ten centimeters of the woman’s face, berating her, her ancestry, her ethics, all the while waving his 100-shekel ticket for emphasis. He then stomped back to his car and drove away, satisfied that he had at least given that wench a righteous piece of his mind and thus salvaged a portion of his manhood, yet unaware it was a different inspector who had issued his fine.

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