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Ontario transit agency issued parking ticket for a car stolen from a train station. Its owner is still fighting it

When Nancy Griffin parked her vehicle at the Oshawa GO station on March 25, she expected a routine trip to and from Toronto. Instead, she says she found herself at the centre of a months-long ordeal involving a stolen vehicle, confusing bureaucracy, and a parking ticket for a car she no longer possessed.

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When Nancy Griffin parked her vehicle at the Oshawa GO station on March 25, she expected a routine trip to and from Toronto. Instead, she says she found herself at the centre of a months-long ordeal involving a stolen vehicle, confusing bureaucracy, and a parking ticket for a car she no longer possessed. When Nancy Griffin parked her vehicle at the Oshawa GO station on March 25, she expected a routine trip to and from Toronto. Instead, she says she found herself at the centre of a months-long ordeal involving a stolen vehicle, confusing bureaucracy, and a parking ticket for a car she no longer possessed. Griffin, a resident of Picton, Ont., roughly 200 kilometres east of Toronto, returned to the station from Toronto at 11:45 a.m, that morning to discover her vehicle was gone. After double-checking the parking lot, she reported the theft to Metrolinx management and the Durham Regional Police Service (DRPS). As her insurance company was preparing to issue a settlement cheque, Griffin said she received a parking ticket in the mail from Metrolinx. "What the heck, where is my car?" Griffin recalled thinking. Griffin and her husband drove to the address listed on the ticket and found their car parked where she remembered leaving it. Griffin said she was initially assured by Metrolinx that the parking ticket would be voided.

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From the storyWhen Nancy Griffin parked her vehicle at the Oshawa GO station on March 25, she expected a routine trip to and from Toronto.

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From the storyWhen Nancy Griffin parked her vehicle at the Oshawa GO station on March 25, she expected a routine trip to and from Toronto.

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From the storyInstead, she says she found herself at the centre of a months-long ordeal involving a stolen vehicle, confusing bureaucracy, and a parking ticket for a car she no longer possessed.

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From the storyGriffin, a resident of Picton, Ont., roughly 200 kilometres east of Toronto, returned to the station from Toronto at 11:45 a.m, that morning to discover her vehicle was gone.

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