A man asked ChatGPT to help him get out of a parking fine — and the AI helped him win the legal battle three years later
A man asked ChatGPT to help him get out of a parking fine — and the AI helped him win the legal battle three years later
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‘I did it all with the help of AI’: a driver used ChatGPT to help him with a three-year parking ticket dispute — and won
Rowan Davies
Published
12 October 2026
Who needs a lawyer when you've got ChatGPT?
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Essex man Rafal Gorfal used ChatGPT to help him win a legal dispute over a parking ticket fine
He fed the AI the letters he received from debt collectors, and it told him what to say and where to go
The fine was dropped just weeks before his scheduled court appearance
People use
AI chatbots
for all manner of things, but have you ever used AI to evade a parking ticket fine before? This man did, and he went on to win a three-year-long legal battle.
Rafal Gorfal, who’s originally from Essex, was fined back in August 2023 for not paying fast enough in a Newquay pay-and-display car park. Gorfal said that when he arrived at the payment machine he had to wait in a long queue, only to learn that the machine was cash-only, to which he had no choice but to download the RingGo and pay with his phone