Parking or how not to get a fine

Imagine you are driving to the airport. No, international airport in New York City. So, you are driving on a New Jersey Turnpike and suddenly you realize that the passports are... still in the apartment.
Anyway... you turn back, run into the traffic, get your passport and try to get back to the airport with no hope of getting on your transatlantic flight.
At the departure in Newark International airport, we, 2 adults and 3 children arrived 45 minutes prior to Lufthansa departing for Munich. Oh well, thought we, but there is still a thing or two one can try. So Morten, with the puppy eyes and with all 3 kids went to beg for rebooking on to the next flight, while I was waiting in the car.
5 minutes later David appears with the message: "luggage, luggage! we are going". All is great! BUT... What about the car?
We were faced with two choices:
- pay 800$ per ticket to rebook for the next flight
- or take the flight that day and leave the car at the terminal (yes, we are talking about leaving a car at the departure in the airport in NY)
A security and a few calls later (it was wise to inform the airport security to tell about our car), we were sitting in the plane, with a phone number in our phone and a knowledge that our car was not blown up (as one can thing, with the stand of leaving the car just like that) but been towed.
9 days later, upon the arrival, we just called the number and guess what. Our car was not only been delivered to us to the passenger pick-up, but the snow was cleaned up and the tow truck has a jumper just in case if we had a problem of starting it later. And the costs... 10$ per day! Yes, a valet parking at Newark 10$ per day, quite a bit difference for a legal parking of 32$ per day.
So, I guess, fortune favours the bold!