A shocked woman said she "nearly had a stroke" when an admin error meant she was given a parking ticket of over £6million.
Her parking offence, which was real, landed the Greek woman with what the national press called "the most expensive parking ticket in the world" – at €6,648,444 (£5,824,036) – in June last year.
Greek media, including Rodiaki, reported that the fine for a run-of-the-mill parking violation was supposed to be in the region of 100 euros, the equivalent of around £87.
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The publication stated that the woman was sent a letter from the local council in the ancient city of Rhodes, on the island of the same name, and she misread the figure, thinking it was 6,600.
The site stated that she "nearly fainted" when she realised the true figure, which was thankfully an error.
"The next day, the woman visited the municipality in order to pay her fine. There, she showed the parking ticket to the employee and said that it would not be possible to pay with her credit card, so she would like to pay in cash," CarScoops reported at the time.
Her comment was tongue in cheek, and referred to the fact that any fine over 100 euros must be paid with card – and the fact that she probably didn't have over six million in cash on her.
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The "stunned" employee assured the woman that the large fine was a mistake.
Officials reportedly aren’t sure how this error ended up in the woman’s mailbox, but Greek media jokingly blamed a heatwave in frazzling the brains of debt collectors.
According to Rental Center Crete, parking fines in Greece are generally capped at €80, which is reduced by half if you pay it within 10 days.
For context, Athens officials collected six million euros in parking fines in all of 2014, according to Deputy Mayor Antonis Kafetzopoulos, via Ekathimerini.
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