Parking cop leaves ticket on car with dead man inside!
SEATTLE, Washington - August 5, 2010 - A Seattle parking enforcement officer left a ticket on the windshield of a car with a dead man inside, police said.
The officer was on patrol Tuesday when she noticed a car that had been parked for nearly three hours in a two-hour parking zone in the 1600 block of Airport Way South, police said.
She saw a man who appeared to be asleep in the driver's seat and rapped on the window but could not rouse him, said police.
She left a ticket on the window and continued her patrol.
Police said the man's girlfriend located the car with the man inside about 40 minutes later. Medics responded and pronounced the man dead.
An initial investigation indicated the time of death was hours before the chalking of the wheels, police said.
There was no sign of homicidal violence, police said, and the cause of death will be determined by the King County Medical Examiner's Office.
The parking enforcement officer who issued the $42 parking ticket voided it later in the day.
