"Only to make money"

Finally limits for cheeky parking lot rip-offs

She got lost because of a building site and turned around on the property, which is why one reader had to pay 300 euros.

(Bild: Jöchl Martin)

Complaints about parking lot rip-offs in Upper Austria reach the editors of the "OÖ-Krone" newspaper every day. Most recently from a father who was asked to pay 395 euros because he let his daughter get out of her car on private property. Now it's not just those affected who have had enough - the "Krone" has learned that limits are to be placed on systematic rip-offs.

Systematic rip-offs are now not only being detected by punished drivers in some parking lot traps in Upper Austria. The "Krone" reported, among other things, on 110 euro fines in front of an equipment store in Freistadt if you do not register your license plate number, 300 euro fees for using a private property in front of a closed sausage stand in Linz or 170 euros for turning around in a dead end street in Grünburg. Now a father has to pay 395 euros because he let his daughter out of the car in Vöcklabruck and stopped briefly in a private parking lot.