Peoria made the Pittsburgh paper today.  The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s “Morning File with Peter Leo” listed the winners in a Great Britain contest for the craziest parking tickets issued.  After giving the five winners, including “Four cars in a funeral cortege [who] were ticketed for stopping while mourners paid their respects,” Mr. Leo turned to America.  In a section titled “Dead man parking,” he had this to say:

Meter maids in Peoria, Ill., recently did the Brits one better: ticketing not a funeral but a dead man. They issued three parking tickets and a tow-away sticker to a black Mercedes SUV parked outside a hospital emergency room. Apparently, they were all business and didn’t take a close look. On Feb. 9, a passing pedestrian noticed the body of a 46-year-old man inside and notified the hospital, the Peoria Journal Star reported. He had been missing for three days. Cause of death is still a mystery.