If you’ve got family coming into town this summer for a visit, be careful when you’re parking, or a downtown towing lot may be the next stop on your sightseeing trip as in the case of Birmingham driver Eric Delk.

Delk was recently towed by Birmingham’s Parking Enforcement Systems (PES), who have been the subject of over a decades’ worth of public complaints, after parking downtown to show his family around and accidentally using the wrong information he had saved in his ParkMobile app.

“So, I have two cars,” Delk said. “One car I drive most of the time and I’m fairly familiar with that license plate number. But this weekend I had family in from out of town and I’m trying to show them around, so I had my other car.

“So, I’m looking at the app and I see the license plate I recognize saved but I know it’s not that car so it must be the other plate number I have saved. So, I picked that one, paid, we go out to eat and I come back to my car, no car.”

After he realized he had been towed, Delk said, he walked his family over to a local bar owned by a friend and left them there while he caught a ride to the PES lot with a Birmingham police officer he spotted nearby who offered to take him.