In L.A. parking ticket purgatory

Bryan Olive, a staffer at the Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, turned in his leased car last March. In August, the car got a parking ticket in Los Angeles. In September, Olive received a “Notice of Delinquent Parking Violation” from the city of L.A. That set off a round of bureaucratic bungling that got much worse before it got better thanks to the intervention of the Orange County Register's OC Watchdog blog.