By CTV News Staff, August 3, 2016
The city of Ottawa is cashing in on the Pokemon Go craze — through parking tickets.
Over the August long weekend, bylaw officers issued 264 tickets in and around the city’s Dick Bell Park. Worth almost $12,000, many of the tickets were given to illegally parked cars or cars that had stuck around after the park closed at 11p.m.
“There were vehicles everywhere,” Scott Campbell, program manager for Ottawa’s bylaw enforcement unit, told CTV Ottawa. “On the lawns, on the grass, and even the entrances.”
