JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Carole Schroeder says she's being targeted by the city.
She said she's "an old lady with a very cool car," but the city wants "to impound it because they have the wrong car tag."
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Schroeder's license plate reads "NO TAG," "so every time someone gets a ticket without a car tag, I get in trouble," she said. "They put me down as the owner of all kinds of cars, but this is the baby."
And her baby -- her car -- is now costing her nearly $8,000 in parking tickets.
She like 25,000 other people got a notice in the mail that they have outstanding parking tickets in Jacksonville.
"Well, I don't drive downtown Jacksonville, so I knew it was not me," Schroeder said. "I was very disturbed because I did not know what to do."
After checking, her daughter found out her mom's car had more tickets against it: 135 parking tickets in all.
"We are just in utter shock because my mother owes almost $8,000 in tickets. Utter shock," Schroeder's daughter, Kendra White, said.
They were more amazed to learn all of the tickets were written to different cars -- tickets issued years before the car was even made. Yet the city says the car owner is responsible.
The problem might be her vanity license plate. It appears that every illegally parked car without a tag ends up on Schroeder's "NO TAG" record.
Earlier this week, an out of town collection agency began sending out notices for the city for unpaid parking tickets. Parking division workers say they had a computer glitch in the past that backed things up, but the workers believe Jacksonville is owed more than $1.6 million in outstanding parking fines, and they are trying to get the money.
But Schroeder and others say the city won't get it from them because they never got the tickets.
"Somebody is not doing their job," Schroeder said. "I don't want to be in trouble and I don't want to get another ticket."