Grant Fridd (44), of St Kilda, has $400 worth of fines and $260 in court costs to pay as a result.
Opponent of the Dunedin City Council's new parking strategy, the Fix owner-operator Mandy Smart said businesses planned to help pay legal costs.
Outside the Dunedin District Court yesterday, Fridd said he would take any help he could get, though he did not plan any further action himself.
After being given a parking ticket on September 16 for parking on the footpath - and a second when he double-parked - Fridd stationed his truck across the middle of George St.
Acting Sergeant Mike Gasson told the court that when police arrived at the scene the defendant became agitated, and refused to move his truck.
He did not want to speak to "people in patches", and refused to give his personal details.
Those eventually had to be gained from his fingerprints.
Fridd was charged with intentionally obstructing a constable, operating a vehicle without reasonable consideration for others, and failing to supply particulars.
Fridd's counsel, Warren Smith, said there had been "considerable agonising over the summary of facts", but his client had decided to plead guilty.
He had had a full pallet to deliver, and was "very, very concerned about effecting that delivery".
He had spent some time trying to find a park, and had become considerably frustrated, on top of frustration over a long period of time "given the nature of parking difficulties in the city".
His client apologised to the public and police for the incident, promised there would be no repeat, and asked to be allowed to keep his licence and receive a sentence that would allow him to keep working.
Judge Stephen O'Driscoll said the situation "clearly got out of hand".
It was not his role to comment on the parking policy, and drivers were responsible for dealing with parking rules as they were.
He noted nobody was harmed or injured, and fined Fridd $200 for operating his vehicle without due consideration for others, and $200 for obstruction, with $130 court costs on each charge.
Fridd was convicted and discharged for failing to supply details.
After the hearing, Fridd said he had done his bit towards the protest.
However, he supported any actions that would help change the council's policy.
Mrs Smart said yesterday she had been waiting to see what the costs were.
Businesses had said they would donate money, and the public would also be able to help out.
*For the results of the DCC street survey see tomorrow's ODT
