I’m wondering why CheeseDonkey refused to use the first person voice consistently in the OP. It made it needlessly confusing, and the armchair psychologist in me wonders if he used it to distance himself from owning the fact that his own negligence earned him the ticket. No crazy conspiracies needed.
“Apparently, I forgot to get my car inspected.”
“The officer went directly towards my car without checking any of the others and gave MINE a ticket for not having an inspection.”
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Also, I find it a tad amusing that he truly wondered if the police had surreptitiously obtained his work schedule so that they could slap him with a ticket for something so minor. Seriously, the only time something so far fetched MIGHT dawn on me is if I was sleeping with the officer’s spouse. (And if that was the case, then some paranoia could be forgiven.)
The question is what your state’s license laws say. In most Canadian locations, what happens on private property is irrelevant. I did see some get their fixer-upper towed because they put it out on the street without plates. On private property, the police can do nothing - but the proprietor can have it towed…
Parking the wrong way is the offense - if the law is like here, it does not matter if the vehicle was driven the wrong way, slid into place by hand on an icy street, or carried there by a bunch of college students. It just matters how it is parked.
I believe some public private areas, like malls, can elect to have the Highway Traffic Act or whatever it is called enforced on their property. Then it depends if the license law is included in that package.