Guy gets parking ticket after 30 seconds, writes awesome letter

[zenjim]

[cyrus buelton]

 


That is brilliant.

I recall contesting a parking infringement in college. Not nearly as a good write up, but I do recall drawing pictures, stick figures, etc proving that where I parked was actually a space.

I can't remember if I won or not, but i think I did.

[He Man]

oh man. the city of new york would not stand for this and immediately arrest you.

[Veloce-Fino]

I'm not sure I could have restrained myself in this situation. I may have beat the meter maid with my briefcase.

[Duck-Stew]

City: 0
Little guy: 1

[Mr. Van Sant]

oh man. the city of new york would not stand for this and immediately arrest you.

100%

[zooom]

I was driving a buddy of mine's car and parking in College Park, MD. The meter maid was a comin and I thankfully was saved as she got held up by a car. This car was clearly not having JUST parked and already had 2 slips on the window wiper. She proceeded to write a third which took a moment or few more than normal. The automated machine expidites the process with thermal print-out ease after she punches a series of buttons, a process that is usually less than a minute per ticket, except in this case. I feed my meter and do what I gotta at Kinko's and walk to another store and grab a beverage. A few minutes later when I walked to my car I see the owner of the car walking to his vehicle calmly ( absolutely the opposite of what I would be doing if I saw ticket(s) on my windsheild). He looks at he tickets like no biggie and puts em back on the windshield. He turns and walks away smiling and saying something to the tune of "...wrong again..." with a snicker and laugh in his voice.

I stop him an ask about it and he then shares with me his reasoning for not caring as to why the parking nazi's were continuing to lay fines on him. The car was a Citroen 2CV and they have written ticket after ticket on the car, but none of them are right. They have called it a VW, a Renault, a Mitsubishi, and a Saab previously, but this time they called it an Opel. He explained to me that he simply goes to the office with the tickets and shows his registration to verify information and says that these tickets are mistakes and are not his car and they simply void them due to them being written up as incorrect make/model/etc. He said to me that until they write it up as the right car, he'll continue to not pay any tickets and therefore not feed the meters. It was almost like the diplomats that drive and park with impunity on a regular basis, but this time it was a simple regular everyday kinda guy.

[SacDuc]

I was parked legally at a job site at a State government building in Sacramento in a designated construction parking zone. All I was doing was getting some revised plans from the site supervisor. I was parked 8-10 minutes tops. When I come out I see a jackass writing up a ticket. Since you guys know me, you know that I am extremely cordial and polite when I think someone is being an asshole. So calmly pointed out the sign on the wall directly above my car that designates the construction parking there in the alley to the stupid mothermake the beast with two backser. I also directed his attention to the trucks parked both fore and aft of my vehicle in case he his vision was IZ_ from getting poked in the eye with a dick.

This is when he tells me to read the sign again. It reads "Truck parking for construction only."

I say, "Yeah, so?"

"Well," he says, "you drive a car. You can't park here."

I was standing there, wearing a hard hat and carrying a set of plans for the very building the sign is mounted to with my mouth agape. I suggested that perhaps his mother could help him figure out how this parking area and then went on to describe other acrobatics she may enjoy with the help of various instruments and implements.

[Triple J]

That's great!  At least the city listened.

My wife got a parking ticket for sitting in the alley behind my building. She was sitting in the car when the ticket was placed on the window, and had been there maybe 60 seconds as I was walking down from the 3rd floor.  The meter maid didn't even bother to just ask her to move (which she would hae done...she didn't know it was illegal to pick people up in Seattle alleys...there are no signs). When I came down I let the meter maid know I thought it was BS.

Fast forward 3 days. I get a parking ticket (same car) for parking within 5 feet of a driveway return. MY DRIVEWAY! I essentially got a ticket for blocking my own damn driveway. 

Coincidence? 

Seattle didn't drop either ticket.

[He Man]

That's great!  At least the city listened.

My wife got a parking ticket for sitting in the alley behind my building. She was sitting in the car when the ticket was placed on the window, and had been there maybe 60 seconds as I was walking down from the 3rd floor.  The meter maid didn't even bother to just ask her to move (which she would hae done...she didn't know it was illegal to pick people up in Seattle alleys...there are no signs). When I came down I let the meter maid know I thought it was BS.

Fast forward 3 days. I get a parking ticket (same car) for parking within 5 feet of a driveway return. MY DRIVEWAY! I essentially got a ticket for blocking my own damn driveway. 

Coincidence? 

Seattle didn't drop either ticket.

In NYC they cant ticket you for blocking your own driveway. its a private 311 matter that invovles a tow truck that will get here faster than a 911 call about a ongoing shootout.

[swampduc]

I recall contesting a parking infringement in college. Not nearly as a good write up, but I do recall drawing pictures, stick figures, etc proving that where I parked was actually a space.

I can't remember if I won or not, but i think I did.

Depends. Were these stick figure drawings akin to your other drawings? 

[R2]

I once got a ticket when they painted the curb next to my car red. It was near my apartment. There was about 5 feet of unpainted curb and the rest was old warn red paint. People always parked at that one spot, including me for the couple months I had been living there. I parked there one Friday, got picked up Saturday morning, then when I got dropped off Saturday afternoon the curb was practically glowing red with fresh paint and I had a ticket on my windshield. Of course they didn't excuse it.

[Bun-bun]

I pulled up in front of Walmart to let my (disabled) wife out in a snowstorm. Handicap tag dangling from the mirror. SUV in front of me letting someone out, so I wait for them to move. As we're wating, meter boy walks up, knocks on the window, hands me a ticket  for a no parking zone. I took it to court and won, but it truly pissed me off.

[zenjim]

I was driving a buddy of mine's car and parking in College Park, MD. The meter maid was a comin and I thankfully was saved as she got held up by a car. This car was clearly not having JUST parked and already had 2 slips on the window wiper. She proceeded to write a third which took a moment or few more than normal. The automated machine expidites the process with thermal print-out ease after she punches a series of buttons, a process that is usually less than a minute per ticket, except in this case. I feed my meter and do what I gotta at Kinko's and walk to another store and grab a beverage. A few minutes later when I walked to my car I see the owner of the car walking to his vehicle calmly ( absolutely the opposite of what I would be doing if I saw ticket(s) on my windsheild). He looks at he tickets like no biggie and puts em back on the windshield. He turns and walks away smiling and saying something to the tune of "...wrong again..." with a snicker and laugh in his voice.

I stop him an ask about it and he then shares with me his reasoning for not caring as to why the parking nazi's were continuing to lay fines on him. The car was a Citroen 2CV and they have written ticket after ticket on the car, but none of them are right. They have called it a VW, a Renault, a Mitsubishi, and a Saab previously, but this time they called it an Opel. He explained to me that he simply goes to the office with the tickets and shows his registration to verify information and says that these tickets are mistakes and are not his car and they simply void them due to them being written up as incorrect make/model/etc. He said to me that until they write it up as the right car, he'll continue to not pay any tickets and therefore not feed the meters. It was almost like the diplomats that drive and park with impunity on a regular basis, but this time it was a simple regular everyday kinda guy.

Wow.
That guy is living the dream.

[erkishhorde]

My house-mate is some kinda student cop for the local police and she told me about this exact thing. Sid Citroens are a pain the ass the ticket because they're like 5 pages into the car list.

I stop him an ask about it and he then shares with me his reasoning for not caring as to why the parking nazi's were continuing to lay fines on him. The car was a Citroen 2CV and they have written ticket after ticket on the car, but none of them are right. They have called it a VW, a Renault, a Mitsubishi, and a Saab previously, but this time they called it an Opel. He explained to me that he simply goes to the office with the tickets and shows his registration to verify information and says that these tickets are mistakes and are not his car and they simply void them due to them being written up as incorrect make/model/etc. He said to me that until they write it up as the right car, he'll continue to not pay any tickets and therefore not feed the meters. It was almost like the diplomats that drive and park with impunity on a regular basis, but this time it was a simple regular everyday kinda guy.