DENVER, Colorado - November 4, 2010 - A Denver parking enforcement officer took revenge on a driver who called him a "meter maid" by asking a co-worker to write the driver a false parking ticket, 9Wants to Know has learned.

The parking officers then mailed the $150 handicapped parking ticket to the driver late, so by the time he received it, the fine had doubled.

"This was a $300 ticket," Joshua Miscles of Denver said. "People get criticized every day and it doesn't give them the right to just write a ticket and a fake ticket to boot."

Miscles admits he got angry with the enforcement agent on August 19, 2009. He had run into the bank to cash a check and when he came out, Officer Eric Madril had issued him a ticket for not having a front license plate. Miscles had a license plate, but it was in his window because there were no holes on his bumper to place it on the front of the car.

"I told him that was a bull crap ticket if he's seen the license plate in my window and that there's nowhere else to put it," Miscles said.

Miscles says he called Madril a "meter maid" and told him to "get a real job."

"That's when he got upset and got on the phone," Miscles said. "He was telling me, 'Come on! Get out of your truck and let's go.'"

Instead of fighting him, Miscles says he drove off and eventually forgot all about it. Several days later, he received a second parking ticket in the mail claiming he had parked in a handicapped parking spot at 1614 18th Street just nine minutes after he had been ticketed for not having a front license plate at 1403 17th Street in Denver.

"I wouldn't park in a handicapped space because I'm not handicapped," Miscles said.

Call to express your feelings at this blatant violation of citizens’ rights!

Denver Police Department
Chief of Police Gerald Whitman
720-913-6317