Getting scammed while parking?

19 comments

1. unfortunately it’s quite common in some areas of Italy to have these circumstances

2. He is a scammer. He will rob or destroy your car if you dont pay, and he doesnt work for anyone but himself. This is very common in the South, you should park somewhere else.

3. Yes you were extorted money: if you don’t pay, they will usually retaliate by vandalising your car. Italians pay them money for the same reason. This happens because mafia doesn’t exist

   By the way, if the stripes are blue, then parking is paid but the money is collected by the city via automated machine not by armed robbers

4. chiedo ai più esperti: cosa succede se hai pagato il parcheggiatore e poi passa il vigile?

   ovv il tipo sparisce, ma il vigile fa la multa alle macchine perché sono senza bigliettino oppure sa che ci sono i parcheggiatori abusivi e passa oltre?

   vorrei capire se in un caso del genere rischio di finire cornuto e mazziato

5. Yes you got scammed, usually you can bring the price down, just tell them you only have an euro or two.

6. Sadly it was a scammer, for my personal experience it doesn’t happen anything if you don’t pay him

7. The nice thing about this is that if you call the police/carabinieri, everyone in that area will act like they don’t know such a situation exist, because they know the scammer IRL (neighboors probably) and they’ll protect him

8. You risked a fine since you did not pay for the regular ticket 🙁

9. In poche parole paghi qualcuno affinché’’ non ti rubi o danneggi la macchina… che schifo!!

10. Che bella figura facciamo con i turisti

11. Welcome to southern italy

12. I’m from Salerno and you chose the most expensive park in the city probably, but it’s ok you couldn’t have known. Anyways, those are blue parking spots so you have to pay at the machine too.. the guy who asked you for money isn’t legit, we usually give them 1 or 2 euros. I didn’t know they controlled that parking too because it’s just in front of the questura lmao

13. There’s a bridge over a river in Belgrade. You can access it by elevator. When I visited there was a guy charging people to use it. 😀

    By the way, this parking thing used to be a common thing in my country. The way the cities dealt with is to take all of those places and turn them into municipal parking lots. Now we pay the local government. Win I guess? (I do think it’s better. Just kidding there.)

14. Comunque incredibile, ogni volta chiedo di pagare con carta e non gli funziona mai il POS, da non credere

15. Yes you got scmmed but you have to understand that in the south of italy they “have the sun, the heart and the sea”, calling out bad behaviour and realising there is a problem there, is racism…. We should collectively aimlessly dump more money in the south of italy, to improve not well defined “infrastructures”…

    Sia chiaro sono veneto ma non ho mai votato destra (ne mai lo farò). Credo solo sia divertente vedere come le cose al sud non sembrano cambiare mai

16. Welcome to Italy.

    Nobody’s even trying to do anything. It’s just accepted, this is how it works. Terrible terrible terrible.

17. They are scammers. Don’t pay them. They are illegal, if they retaliate call the cops.

18. Se call them “2 euro a piacere”

19. They are not scammers, they are criminals.

    You pay for not let them scratch your car.

    It’s very common in south Italy (maybe not everywhere) but also it is kind of tolerated by local police because it is the less worse kind of criminal activity those people could do