May 7, 2021
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit pizzeria owner who was upset over people getting USD150 tickets for unwittingly parking in a handicap zone got a bucket of blue paint and marked the street himself.
“People come to Detroit, try to support our city and walk away with a USD150 ticket, and they feel like they were tricked into it and they kind of were tricked into it,” said Tony Sacco, co-owner of Mootz Pizzeria.
The last straw: A woman and her children getting ice cream found a ticket on their car across the street from Sacco’s pizzeria.
“I was talking to my buddy sitting with me and I said, ‘We’re going to go buy some blue paint.’ And we did,” Sacco told