A WOMAN went to the hospital and walked out with an almost $8,000 parking bill.
She says that after going to the hospital for a cancer screening, her car bill was thousands of dollars when the machine mistakenly claimed she had been parked there for years.

Cate Daniels went into the hospital for a cancer screening and left with an almost $8,000 parking fee[/caption]
The attendant then allegedly refused to fix it at the gate[/caption]
The Los Angeles County woman was left dumbfounded after a 45-minute park led to a $7,829 bill from Glendale Memorial Hospital.
The patient told ABC affiliate KABC-TV that the parking attendant falsely claimed she had been parked there for weeks.
“The receipt spit out nearly $8,000 as the amount charged,” Cate Daniels told the station.
On the bill, it printed that she had entered on July 3, 2022, and departed July 25, 2025.
At first, she wondered if the comma was a decimal when she saw the exorbitant amount.
But when she checked her bank account, the money had been taken.
“Initially, he saw July 3 on the ticket and he said ‘You’ve been parked here for three weeks,’” Daniels said, telling him she had actually only been in the parking garage for less than an hour.
The attendant then allegedly refused to fix the charge, and would not give her a name of someone who could help.
Daniels, who lost her husband to cancer last year, said that she “remembers what it feels like to be in this state of crisis.”
“Nobody needs something like that to have to contend with in the midst of all of that,” she said.
A hospital spokesperson told the outlet that it was “made aware of a billing error by the parking company that resulted in an overcharge for one guest.”
“Once notified, the parking company promptly acknowledged the mistake and began processing a refund.”
The company is also going to replace the parking machine.
“Two different people have said things like this happen in that lot,” Daniels said, according to CBS News.
New driving laws in 2025
Drivers across the United States are having to adjust to a slew of new road rules that take effect in 2025. Some of those include:
- Daylighting law prohibiting drivers from parking their cars within 20 feet of any crosswalk in California
- Stricter street racing penalties in California
- Changes to car seat age and weight requirements in Colorado
- Fines for failing to follow designated enter and exit areas for express lanes in Colorado
- Bans on handheld devices while driving in Colorado and Missouri
- Drivers allowed to have a digital copy of their license on their cell phones in Illinois
- Yield right of way to emergency vehicles in Illinois
- Drivers required to take a vision test to renew licenses in Kentucky
- School bus safety law in Oregon
- Vehicle safety inspections scrapped in Texas
“How can – when people are receiving healthcare – something like this happen with any frequency?”
A few hours away from the hospital in San Francisco, $324 in parking fines were given to a woman for parking in her own driveway.
The resident, alongside others in the area, now have been concerned about a possible “snitch” calling officials on their cars, according to a San Francisco Chronicle story.
She received the tickets after her car was partially on the sideway as her driveway is too short.
“We’re not fighting the law, we all agree that strollers and disabled people need to pass,” Sharon Gillenwater of the Noe Valley neighborhood said.
“But can we just be in the spirit of the law? In our case, there is plenty of room for two wheelchairs to go in tandem down the street.”
Her husband, Andrew Keeler, joked that the person calling on them became somewhat of a “neighborhood murder mystery.”

The hospital apologized for the charge after Daniels went to news outlets[/caption]