Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe NATICK, Mass., Jan. 10 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts town's parking clerk said some people may have received erroneous parking tickets due to a survey taken at a neighboring town's train station. Robert McCauley, 53, of Natick, said he was baffled to receive a notice informing him of a $25 fine for a parking ticket he was accused of incurring while his vehicle was parked at the Riverside Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Green Line station in Newton, The Boston Herald reported Monday. Advertisement McCauley said he called Bonita Legassie, the parking clerk for Wellesley, and she told him the ticket was mistakenly issued while the town was conducting a parking survey at the lot to see how many Wellesley commuters use the station. "It's standard practice for transportation planning," MBTA spokeswoman Lydia Rivera said. Legassie said the survey conductors used the same handheld devices to record the plates as they would to write tickets and one of the machines malfunctioned and issued tickets. She said "anywhere from one to 40 people" may have received $25 fines.
