CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman is trying to get out of paying a parking fine that has snowballed to more than $100,000.

WBBM Radio reports that (http://cbsloc.al/10PoNXv ) Jennifer Fitzgerald filed a lawsuit last year against the city over the $105,000 worth of tickets that police piled up on her car.

The car was left for nearly three years in a parking lot at O'Hare International Airport.

WBBM says a judge dismissed the lawsuit Wednesday and pressed the parties to try harder to reach a settlement.

Fitzgerald says she should not be held responsible for the fine because her ex-boyfriend abandoned the car in an employee parking lot at the airport. She says the car is only worth about $600.

The suit also names her former boyfriend.

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Let 'em repossess the car as payment...

seems like that would have been thought of 2.5 years ago...

I know. She did without it for 3 years, tell the city it's theirs!

they should have towed the damn thing long ago!
Greedy Basturds!

The easiest way to have handled the situation would have been to let the city impound the car as abandoned and buy it back at auction for about $500 (which would of course go to the city).

She's probably already spent way more than $500 on legal fees for the lawsuit that got dismissed, so her common sense is, (to put it mildly) kinda "out to lunch."... Obviously she should never have hired that other law firm, Shafter Goode & Dytcher.

Heck,it was way better than the one she had before,Dewey,Shaftem&Howe!

The new firm was started by attorneys who articled at the old one. They wanted to make a powerful statement about their unique talents and knew they'd never be able to do that at a firm based on an interrogative.