I don't know if this fits here, but today after lunch I was walking back to my car. There was a traffic officer walking towards it too. I was partly parked in a red zone and he flipped open his ticket book. I was already in the car by then and I told him, "I'm driving away". He causually said "OK", closed his book and walked back to his car. My other choice was to be silent and wait for him to write the ticket.