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Find and pay my overdue NYC parking ticket

Shervin Shaikh asked the AI in chat to find any NYC parking tickets under his name and pay them; after he supplied his licence plate, the AI found a $115 'No Standing' ticket in Brooklyn, now $145 with penalties. The first CityPay attempt failed on a billing-address mismatch, but the retry succeeded: $147.90 paid via Stripe Link, confirmed on screen.

$115

How it works

  1. Ask the AI to find NYC tickets under his name
  2. Provide licence plate number
  3. The AI searches the city site and finds a $115 ticket, $145 with penalties
  4. The AI opens CityPay and prepares a $147.90 charge (2% fee) via Stripe Link
  5. First attempt fails on billing-address mismatch
  6. Retry succeeds and payment confirmation is shown

Why it’s worth knowing

A city fine was found, penalty-checked and paid entirely inside a chat conversation.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on instagram.com. See the original ↗

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