Woman Dies, Revived, Gets Fined
By thom·August 20, 2026
A woman in New Zealand had what you might call a very eventful grocery-store parking experience.
She collapsed outside a supermarket in Auckland, and DIED!
A stranger stepped in to perform CPR after she had no pulse. Paramedics got her to the hospital, where she recovered. Incredible story. A real-life second chance.
Then came the mail.
Her car had been sitting in the supermarket lot for five and a half hours while she was busy, you know, briefly being dead. The lot has a 90-minute limit, so the parking company sent her an $80 ticket.
After the family explained the whole “medical emergency and resurrection” situation, the company didn’t erase the fine. They reduced it to $30.
Nothing says compassion quite like, “Congratulations on surviving. That’ll be thirty bucks.”
The supermarket eventually refunded her, the ticket was withdrawn, and the parking company apologized. Apparently their policy now includes a special exception for customers who have technically died.