Your parking ticket might be a scam, y'all.
Look—you just got home from dinner at El Fenix on Beckley, maybe you hit up a show in Deep Ellum, and there's a yellow envelope tucked under your wiper. Most of us just sigh, pull out our phones, and pay it, right? Well, pump the brakes on that, Dallas. The City is warning us about these "phishing" parking tickets popping up across the country, and now they're here. My mamá always says, *"Si algo se ve demasiado bueno para ser verdad, probablemente lo es."* And a parking ticket that sends you to some sketchy-looking website instead of the city portal? That's about as red-flaggy as a Cowboys game in December.
This is exactly the kind of mess that makes you wanna just stay home and order in from Pecan Lodge, you know? We're already shelling out for these tolls just to drive across town—I swear I pay $40 a week just to exist on the Dallas North Tollway—and now some *rateros* are trying to shake us down for bogus tickets? Next thing you know, they'll be trying to sell us season tickets to the Trinity River project, bless its heart. Keep an eye out for anything that looks off. Check the official city website, not some random QR code. Dallas on the wire — big hat, bigger story.
Y'all know Keith and the gang are fixin' to go deep on this tomorrow morning — catch it live at mornings.live.