I clarified with him on twitter and in fact my “most charitable” interpretation was correct (although he got $32 as a paid witness; I guess inflation! I remember when this was $10-12 and parking validation).

I hope someone at Amazon sees this and reigns in their lawyers; he is not their enemy and making him and a bunch of other fans of Amazon (including me) into adversaries for no reason is…not in the best interest of Amazon or AMZN shareholders.)