We came cross this story published on Aprils Fools but it was no joke!
University of Florida President W. Kent Fuchs announced on Twitter that people who had been cited for parking violations on campus over the past year could get amnesty for their ticket by donating food.
"For many years, parking tickets have been a source of contention between the university administration, and our students, staff, faculty, alumni, and visitors," Fuchs begins in the the 38-second video posted by UF's twitter account.
"I am pleased to announced, on this first day of April, that UF will have an amnesty program for parking fines. And today I'm calling on Scott Fox, the director of Transportation and Parking Services to create by tomorrow, a program that will allow the past twelve months of parking tickets to be forgiven."
But, as nearly people found out this week, the UF president wasn't kidding. According a tweet from Fuchs, nearly 2,000 citations were dismissed in exchange for 9,455 canned food donations.
The "Food for Fines" program applied to all unpaid parking citations issued by the University of Florida Office of Transportation and Parking Services between April 1st, 2017 and April 1, 2018.
Donations included toiletries, canned and boxed nonperishable foods, baby formula and diapers. Participants needed to bring in at least five items per citation and there was no limit on the amount of citations that could be forgiven.
The canned food donations will head for the shelves of the school's Field and Fork Pantry.
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