re: Austin, TX: "You reap what you sow".

The parking thief’s are the real fricking criminals so far:

Been charged 29 dollars twice to get out of parking garage that had zero parking spaces, plus took 45 minutes once to try to turn around as there were probably 3 dozen other cars trying to do same thing.

And 150 dollars for parking in a pay lot at 10:30 pm one night at a bar that had with a 12 x 6 inch sign that was blocked by a truck. (They booted me)
I thought it was parking for the bar, but in fact almost no bar or restaurant downtown has any parking. I was there for 30 minutes.