While it COULD dissuade additional tickets- nothing about it is certain or even highly likely to. You can receive multiple tickets for being parked in the same space illegally. If it’s a tiled space like “2 your limit” or expired meter- the parking officer can and often will place a new ticket each time they come around on patrol and you are still illegally parked. In fact- if you’re in a space like “2hour parking” and leave a fake ticket- you may increase your odds of another ticket. Say you park at 10:00am and place the ticket because you plan to stay until 2:30pm. The officer comes at 10:30 and sees you have a ticket. The first ticket means you were already illegally parked. The last shift was 2 hours ago. The logical conclusion is that you are still illegally parked and a ticket will be left. They may come back and leave 2 more tickets in the next 4 hours.
Then you get 3 real tickets. If you left no ticket, and the officer came at 10:30 and marked your car- your first ticket would be at 12:30, and your second at 2:30, meaning you’ll possibly end up with an extra ticket. On all likelihood though- an officer who wasn’t being lazy would check the ticket on your windshield before writing the next- to e sure if the time and date especially if they don’t recall writing it- and because notes and fliers are often left on cars and it would be a cartoonish mistake to assume any piece of paper on a car was a ticket. Of course if we are relying on a careless officer- as stated- it’s just as likely they’d write another as none at all.
Furthermore, you can also get multiple tickets for the same offense. So something like parking in a handicapped space- the first ticket doesn’t guarantee a second won’t be issued. In most jurisdictions there is a time limit to how soon an additional ticket can be issued for such offenses- usually you can only get 1 a day for parking in the same space without moving for something like “no parking between 9-7...” the fake ticket has the best chance to success in this case as if they don’t actually check the ticket more closely and it looks like a valid ticket issued in the area from afar- they may just keep moving.
In many jurisdictions tickets escalate in cost based on number of offenses as well so you can end up costing yourself money, and of course- many places this is illegal for various reasons and if caught you could face all sorts of penalties. Some areas specifically forbid leaving leaflets other than legal notices on cars- so the very act of placing that paper on your car could get you in trouble if caught- but intentionally trying to fool an officer or other entities in most areas constitutes some type of fraud or other crime as well- one U.K. man was sentenced to pay over $10k for abuse of fake parking tickets near his work.
Most people know someone or can search the internet and find stories of success about using this tactic. It can work. It’s less likely to work somewhere like near timesquare etc. than perhaps a sleepy suburb- but it is relying on luck. If you are discovered you probably won’t get in any trouble and will just get a ticket- as discussed above though if you are found out you might end up paying more not less- but that’s the exception to the rule. Most likely- you’ll get no ticket or you’ll get the ticket you would have gotten anyway- so it seems the risk/rewards lean towards it being smart if we eliminate extreme bad luck.
But in the end those parking laws exist for a reason, everyone else has to figure out how to deal with parking or suffer consequences and it’s fundamentally unfair to “cheat” the system like that and ultimately harmful to everyone. And extreme bad luck is unlikely- but possible so it still does factor in. All in all it’s your life, whatever risks minor or otherwise and the morality is yours to grapple with. But police aren’t morons by and large- and most officers are aware of such a simply trick existing and most don’t appreciate seeing it.
Multiple tickets? No, in San Francisco you're car is getting towed. I love that city, it's beautiful, but FUCK everything about parking there.
Yes, I had my car towed because I parked in a McDonalds parking lot near Haight street, went for a walk, was 15 minutes late... and I was like "where the fuck is my car?"
edit: Spelled Haight street Height street, whoops.
Yeah, lol.... I had just bought a Roor bong (Darth Fader) and so then I had to walk roughly 20 blocks to go get my car back, but I have a fucking glass bong on me looking shady AF. Luckily nothing happened.
I dropped that bong 3 days later. It's the reason why I have my bong rules. My bong, if not over a carpeted area, MUST be in it's cushy bag. It NEVER goes outside, and I'm the only person allowed to clean it (that last one was because an ex-friend accidentally tipped over a different bong, The Pink Panther, in haste because he was spooked.
Yes, I had my car towed because I parked in a McDonalds parking lot near Haight street, went for a walk, was 15 minutes late... and I was like "where the fuck is my car?"
edit: Spelled Haight street Height street, whoops.
I dropped that bong 3 days later. It's the reason why I have my bong rules. My bong, if not over a carpeted area, MUST be in it's cushy bag. It NEVER goes outside, and I'm the only person allowed to clean it (that last one was because an ex-friend accidentally tipped over a different bong, The Pink Panther, in haste because he was spooked.