Even if this sounds farfetched, please take it as it is written. The
location is Coconut Grove, Florida. The person involved is a part-time
worker who works at different banks at the request of the supervisor
who assigns her. The worker had a pass into a shared parking space
area in which no signs repeat no signs either in the parking area or
before entering into the parking area which stated that there was
reserved parking for the numbered spaces. In other words, there were
no signs whatsoever. There were spaces with no numbers and spaces with
numbers. An area with no  numbers was roped off perhaps because these
spaces would be painted, but it doesn't matter.. The worker parked in
a space with a number on
it but as I have stressed no warnings whatsoever. When the worker left
work, she found that her car was "booted" and a note that said she
should go to an office in an
adjoining building to pay a $40.00 fine imposed by the management
company. The worker told the person at the management company that no
one told her where she could or could not park. The person at the
management company said "The worker should have known." She paid the
fine and a security officer took off the "boot". Whether or not the
bank should have told her, I don't believe is not a moot point. Does a
management company in Florida have the right to do this? I doubted
that there wer no signs, but I went to the parking area with the
worker and much to my dismay, there were no signs inside or outside
the parking area

I saw a very similar situation on Judge Judy (or some other lady judge
on Small Claims Court TV) two or three weeks ago.

In that case, some tow truck towed the car of an employee (a bus
driver) who was working overtime (he was directing bus traffic out of
the bus depot).  The employee caught the tow truck before it left with
its car and paid him off to get his car back.

Apparently, the employee was parked in a numbered spot reserved for
someone else, but there were no signs. And the Tow Truck's driver
defense was also the same "He should have known. All the employees
know they shouldn't park there."

She criticized the tow truck driver multiple times and gave the
judgement + court costs in favor of the bus driver. And since the tow
truck driver kept on saying that he was right in towing the car. The
judge became upset and also suggested to the bus driver that he should
look into the local laws for revoking the guy's towing license and she
alluded to the fact that towing is a very highly regulated enterprise
with very strict rules and regulations.

I hope this helps.

steph...thank you. the car was never towed. it was booted by a
security officeer who works for the management company.......

If this was during business/work, I'd ask my boss to take care of the
fine (reimburse me). I was only doing my job and had no idea that I
couldn't park where I parked, and furthermore my boss didn't warn me
about it. If the boss won't pony up, I'll still deduct it from my
taxes as a non-reimbursed business expense.

Further, I might take a civil action against the management company
with regards to unlawful seizure/vandalism of personal property. I'm
pretty certain there are lawyers who would take the case.

This free comment is subject to the disclaimer that I am not a lawyer,
and the Google Disclaimer below.

But in the future, stay away from numbered spots :).