Guy gets parking ticket after 30 seconds, writes awesome letter

[Kopfjager]

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.

I would think the Tag number would trump the fact that they wrote down the wrong make of the car.

[Howie]

I would think the Tag number would trump the fact that they wrote down the wrong make of the car.

If they can get the brand or color wrong a reasonable assumption is they can get the tag number wrong too.

[sbrguy]

lesson that we all learned = get a citroen they are such an obscure car nobody will ever get the make and model correct ever.. 

[Raux]

or get an old triumph tr7
lots of odd older cars that can go under the radar.

[ducpainter]

whatever happened to 'the shape of things to come'?

[Oldfisti]

whatever happened to 'the shape of things to come'?

[ducpainter]

[krolik]

In Portland, you are considered parked, as per the statutes, if you've been in the spot for 30 seconds.

[hbliam]

If they can get the brand or color wrong a reasonable assumption is they can get the tag number wrong too.

No, not really. Not knowing the make of an obscure car? Yes. Just so happen to write down the exact same plate number that is attached to said car? Not a chance. I write the last 6 of the VIN as well, no way I happened to get both right by accident.

[lethe]

No, not really. Not knowing the make of an obscure car? Yes. Just so happen to write down the exact same plate number that is attached to said car? Not a chance. I write the last 6 of the VIN as well, now way I happened to get both right by accident.

but you are SuperCop, luckily most of us deal with the lesser of your species. 

[faolan01]

In college I got towed one day while I was at my internship. There was a loading area near the entrance, and every day when I got there the daily delivery truck was either there or had already left. Once he left for the day people could get away with parking in the loading area, so on the days there was no truck when I got there I just parked right on the ramp. Well one day the driver was running really late and didn't get there until after I did, so he wrote down the plate and walked into the campus police station and asked to have the car towed. He had written down the plate wrong and no car came up when they ran the plate, so he went out and wrote it down again. When they ran it again they came up with the same year, make, model and color as my car, only he had written down the plate wrong again so it came up with a different name. The police didn't recognize the name, so they had the car towed.



Take a wild guess where my internship was...

[Pip]

dealership?

[faolan01]

dealership?

nope, guess again 

[zooom]

Take a wild guess where my internship was...

the police station?

[hadesducati848]

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.

i wonder if i put toyota emblems on my 91 nissan 300zx and get a license plate that reads 94supra if i can have the same luck with the parking tickets