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My first parking ticket - should I contest this?
08-08-2011, 01:52 PM
#141
Burning Brakes
In downtown Austin they have ticket kiosks where you buy
time to park and it issues a peel-off ticket for you to display in
your windshield. I got a ticket for sticking it on the driver side
of the windshield. Ticket stated 'must be displayed on curb-side'.
I think that trumps your white line infraction SolidlyStated.
time to park and it issues a peel-off ticket for you to display in
your windshield. I got a ticket for sticking it on the driver side
of the windshield. Ticket stated 'must be displayed on curb-side'.
I think that trumps your white line infraction SolidlyStated.
08-08-2011, 01:58 PM
#142
Burning Brakes
Thread Starter
In downtown Austin they have ticket kiosks where you buy
time to park and it issues a peel-off ticket for you to display in
your windshield. I got a ticket for sticking it on the driver side
of the windshield. Ticket stated 'must be displayed on curb-side'.
I think that trumps your white line infraction SolidlyStated.
time to park and it issues a peel-off ticket for you to display in
your windshield. I got a ticket for sticking it on the driver side
of the windshield. Ticket stated 'must be displayed on curb-side'.
I think that trumps your white line infraction SolidlyStated.
Did you argue that it was curb-side- just happened to be the curb on the other side of the street 
08-08-2011, 02:07 PM
#143
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The tickets in this case are only $20 and I don't care about the money, but the principle of the matter is very important to me.
Legislators sit around for hours discussing these ideas in minute detail and then dictate to citizens how its going to be, and yes I am sure its all about money. People, however, have the right to speak up and cause change. This very street has been the focus of a widely publicized 'predatory towing' outcry this summer, forcing lawmakers in the city to enact swift regulations.
Cars come in all shapes and sizes and as long as each one can fit in a spot clearly associated with a meter, it should be allowed. Hundreds of drivers aren't going to simply stop and then pass-by a perfectly sound looking parking spot. The city shouldn't be indiscriminately punishing all of them, it should adapt to the people they serve.
This is just like recent news articles I have read where law enforcement officers shut down some little girls' lemonade stand in their front yard because of no concession permits. While *technically* true, the public got angry about it, the city apologized, and let the girls sell lemonade.
Legislators sit around for hours discussing these ideas in minute detail and then dictate to citizens how its going to be, and yes I am sure its all about money. People, however, have the right to speak up and cause change. This very street has been the focus of a widely publicized 'predatory towing' outcry this summer, forcing lawmakers in the city to enact swift regulations.
Cars come in all shapes and sizes and as long as each one can fit in a spot clearly associated with a meter, it should be allowed. Hundreds of drivers aren't going to simply stop and then pass-by a perfectly sound looking parking spot. The city shouldn't be indiscriminately punishing all of them, it should adapt to the people they serve.
This is just like recent news articles I have read where law enforcement officers shut down some little girls' lemonade stand in their front yard because of no concession permits. While *technically* true, the public got angry about it, the city apologized, and let the girls sell lemonade.
08-08-2011, 02:41 PM
#144
Melting Slicks
Anyone following this thread should watch the most recent episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm". Larry pulls into a spot next to a guy taking up two spots. Does he park inside the lines of the next open spot? Watch to find out.
and considering this thread it's a Great episode
08-08-2011, 05:13 PM
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What a waste of time.......MODS step in & CLOSE this thing
08-08-2011, 06:34 PM
#147
It's only a waste of time if you are not contributing to the topic.
I wonder if the officer is required to be in court to provide a deposition if a person fights a parking ticket. If so, I'd go to court to fight this one just to see if the a$$wipe of a parking meter officer that had the nerve to write these tickets actually had the same nerve to show up for their deposition.
I wonder if the officer is required to be in court to provide a deposition if a person fights a parking ticket. If so, I'd go to court to fight this one just to see if the a$$wipe of a parking meter officer that had the nerve to write these tickets actually had the same nerve to show up for their deposition.
08-08-2011, 06:43 PM
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Name calling
It's only a waste of time if you are not contributing to the topic.
I wonder if the officer is required to be in court to provide a deposition if a person fights a parking ticket. If so, I'd go to court to fight this one just to see if the a$$wipe of a parking meter officer that had the nerve to write these tickets actually had the same nerve to show up for their deposition.
I wonder if the officer is required to be in court to provide a deposition if a person fights a parking ticket. If so, I'd go to court to fight this one just to see if the a$$wipe of a parking meter officer that had the nerve to write these tickets actually had the same nerve to show up for their deposition.
08-08-2011, 07:24 PM
#149
I DID CONTRIBUTE......The thread started out with good intentions but as you read things got out of hand and the thread went down hill quite fast. What point is being made when we start name calling etc...thats what I meant by having the MODS close it. They have closed many threads for less.....i did not say or imply it was a useless thread !
08-08-2011, 07:45 PM
#150
Burning Brakes
Thread Starter
Thanks Silver. There was some good discussion outside of that nonsense. As Ron Burgundy said, "Boy that escalated quickly..."
I had a good time talking to people interested in the subject itself. I'm done with the thread and hope it dies with dignity.
I had a good time talking to people interested in the subject itself. I'm done with the thread and hope it dies with dignity.
08-08-2011, 08:31 PM
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fight it
The tickets in this case are only $20 and I don't care about the money, but the principle of the matter is very important to me.
Legislators sit around for hours discussing these ideas in minute detail and then dictate to citizens how its going to be, and yes I am sure its all about money. People, however, have the right to speak up and cause change. This very street has been the focus of a widely publicized 'predatory towing' outcry this summer, forcing lawmakers in the city to enact swift regulations.
Cars come in all shapes and sizes and as long as each one can fit in a spot clearly associated with a meter, it should be allowed. Hundreds of drivers aren't going to simply stop and then pass-by a perfectly sound looking parking spot. The city shouldn't be indiscriminately punishing all of them, it should adapt to the people they serve.
This is just like recent news articles I have read where law enforcement officers shut down some little girls' lemonade stand in their front yard because of no concession permits. While *technically* true, the public got angry about it, the city apologized, and let the girls sell lemonade.
Legislators sit around for hours discussing these ideas in minute detail and then dictate to citizens how its going to be, and yes I am sure its all about money. People, however, have the right to speak up and cause change. This very street has been the focus of a widely publicized 'predatory towing' outcry this summer, forcing lawmakers in the city to enact swift regulations.
Cars come in all shapes and sizes and as long as each one can fit in a spot clearly associated with a meter, it should be allowed. Hundreds of drivers aren't going to simply stop and then pass-by a perfectly sound looking parking spot. The city shouldn't be indiscriminately punishing all of them, it should adapt to the people they serve.
This is just like recent news articles I have read where law enforcement officers shut down some little girls' lemonade stand in their front yard because of no concession permits. While *technically* true, the public got angry about it, the city apologized, and let the girls sell lemonade.
A huge part of the problem I see these days is that cities look at you as their piggy banks. They have designed things so that you are penalized financially. If it were a safety factor they would design it so that you would have to take a class or something to teach you the correct way of doing things. Its all about the money. One big sham.
Fight it by taking it to court and representing yourself. Why hire a lawyer to fight a lawyer and to be judged by a lawyer since they are the scums that want the money to begin with.....ask for a jury trial and take your sweet time picking the jury pool. Remember that the scum lawyer is trained to find those jurors that he can manipulate in his favor. Go through the process and if you lose....sit the ticket out. Its the principal of the whole thing. Dont give em a dime.
08-08-2011, 09:05 PM
#152
Burning Brakes
SolidlyStated -
Wait - there's more to talk about LOL
How about parking in Boston and coming back to
the properly parked vehicle with time on the meter
and a ticket on the window? That'll get you looking for
the meter maid.
Wait - there's more to talk about LOL
How about parking in Boston and coming back to
the properly parked vehicle with time on the meter
and a ticket on the window? That'll get you looking for
the meter maid.
08-15-2011, 05:46 PM
#153
I got a bogus parking ticket while on vacation in Cape Cod about 25 years ago, so I sent them Monopoly money and told them they could keep the change.
08-15-2011, 06:00 PM
#154
Melting Slicks
I'd drive by that area just to see if this is a regular occurrence. Not that I'm a 'conspiracy theory' type, but what a great way for a community to generate quick revenue. Have a city employee park his car at the head of the line such that all cars behind will be forced to park in violation of those white lines. Dispatch the meter maid every hour and watch the cash roll in.
PS - look out for those black helicopters.
PS - look out for those black helicopters.
08-15-2011, 06:16 PM
#156
Le Mans Master
08-15-2011, 07:12 PM
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So how should a parking scenario like this be properly handled?
Hundreds of people who drive by an empty spot with a meter should all just ignore it until enough cars leave to park completely in their painted lines? While that is probably the *technical*, I hardly find it follows the spirit of parking ordinances, which should be to provide efficient and safe parking.
These spaces in particular were in constant turnover, each new car car getting a ticket because the spots are all offset by a couple feet. If drivers were continually expected to examine the space in detail while in traffic, it would immediately become an unsafe, congested situation (attention drawn away from the road, drivers stopping traffic, repeatedly pulling in and out of these faux spots).
Hundreds of people who drive by an empty spot with a meter should all just ignore it until enough cars leave to park completely in their painted lines? While that is probably the *technical*, I hardly find it follows the spirit of parking ordinances, which should be to provide efficient and safe parking.
These spaces in particular were in constant turnover, each new car car getting a ticket because the spots are all offset by a couple feet. If drivers were continually expected to examine the space in detail while in traffic, it would immediately become an unsafe, congested situation (attention drawn away from the road, drivers stopping traffic, repeatedly pulling in and out of these faux spots).
-Clark
