Trade Your Parking Tickets into Toys for Kids in Need
Trade in any Boston parking tickets you get between Nov. 29 and Dec. 1 for a toy instead of paying the fine.
It's certainly happened to all of us at one point or another. You've fed the meter, but you misjudged the time you'd need or you dilly-dallied inside your favorite store for too long. Or you realize you're fresh out of quarters, and you'll only be a few minutes anyways, and how can they really watch every meter in the city at the same time? And then on the way back to your car, you catch that woeful glimpse of bright orange on your windshield. Boom. You were caught. Now you owe the city $40. But this weekend, there's a silver lining to those parking tickets. Through the annual Toys for Tickets program which runs in Boston from Thursday, Nov. 29 to Saturday, Dec. 1, any non-public safety parking ticket you receive you can get out of by …
