STUPID PARKING NAZIS!!!!!! Unjust ticket related

[hop]

[RANT]A couple weeks ago I parked at a one-hour meter, put my coins in until the thing said "1:00", checked my cell phone time, and walked away. When I got back to my car I ran into John Q. Parkingtool who had just ticketed my car and was in the process of ticketing the car in front of me. I (very nicely) tried to get him to take pity on me and remove the ticket since I had returned but he said "no, sorry, I can't because everyone's watching me, besides I already waited 5 minutes. Next time be more careful."
I tried to explain to him that I was injured and my mobility was impaired so I made sure give myself extra time to get back to my car. I even offered to show him the MRI and Ortho diagnosis but obviously he declined and moved on. It was then that I looked at my cell phone to see that after all that back and forth it was exactly an hour from when I had checked my clock to begin with!!!
I protested the ticket explaining that I had been short-changed a few minutes (possibly up to eleven if he had really waited five minutes, ticketed my car and another (at 90 secs/ticket?) and conversed with me for 3) by a meter after timing myself with my cell phone (which automatically updates via GPS or whatever it does).
Yesterday I got a letter back saying they've done an "administrative review" and determined that the ticket was "issued properly and is valid".

I'm protesting again but I fully expect to lose. WTF? I've never felt so robbed by a parking ticket before (usually if I get I deserve them). I feel like wiping my ass with the check I send in.

Any ideas to get out of this nicely before I accidentally run the motherfucker over?
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[lemon boy]

you're just wasting mental energy on stupid shit at this point. Pay and go.

[pappag]

Too bad you're not in NYC because the ticket would be dismissed automatically for failure to include the vehicle's expiration date which happens nearly 100% of the time.



Just think of it as paying your dues.

[lemon boy]

Oh and if you insist on wasting your energy on this, waste it with a good stopwatch and a handfull of quarters at the meter

[Danno]

how much $ was the ticket?

[TomK]

It will be up to you to prove that the meter's timing is wrong. You are disputing a fact, not the administrative process.

You need more than your say-so for the second protest, you need some evidence.

Get a video camera, a tripod, and a stopwatch.
Set it up to film the meter.
Have stopwatch and your cellphone hanging from the meter with thier displays readable on camera.
Start camera rolling.
Start the meter, the stopwatch & note the time on your cellphone.
Let it all run for 65 minutes and see if the meter is really off or not, and by how much time.

Take videotape to the second administrative hearing and ask them watch it (on fast forward) so that they can see that you have not fudged anything.

Still no backdown on the ticket? Present video to local news media if you want to escalate the conflict.

Or, just pay the fine and let them continue to get away with defrauding parkers.

[Griz]

Hold up... you are missing some upside potential here. Where I come from, you just got yourself a relatively inexpensive parking pass for wherever you want... well at least until they change envelopes.

[Dantheman]

You should go with the ass-wiped check option.

and then get arrested for bio-terrorism

[MakersTeleMark]

You should leash your dog.

[advres]

They usually don't like when you send the money for the ticket in pennies. Try that, it'll irk em'.

And the video tape thing is a good idea. But even if they fix your ticket afterwards, send it to the local paper.

[advres]

On a side note, one day in Boston a parking Nazi got me. I was going into work for only a few hours so figured a dollar an hour at the meter was better then $8 for the day at the parking lot.

So, I parked in front of a convience store so I could get change for the meter , saw no meter fucker in sight and ran in to get change for the meter. 30 seconds later I came out to some asshole giving me a ticket. I nicely explained that I ran into the store for 30 seconds to get quarters for the meter and showed the idiot the $5 worth of quarters in my hand. He said there was nothing he could do and continued writing the ticket.

So, I went and parked illegally closer to work with my nice shiny new orange ticket. And I parked illegally for the next few weeks on different blocks. Worked like a charm until it rained and the ticket got wet. Hard to explain on a nice blue day how your ticket got water damaged so I had to start paying to park again.

[Superstar Punani]

[RANT]A couple weeks ago I parked at a one-hour meter, put my coins in until the thing said "1:00", checked my cell phone time, and walked away. When I got back to my car I ran into John Q. Parkingtool who had just ticketed my car and was in the process of ticketing the car in front of me. I (very nicely) tried to get him to take pity on me and remove the ticket since I had returned but he said "no, sorry, I can't because everyone's watching me, besides I already waited 5 minutes. Next time be more careful."
I tried to explain to him that I was injured and my mobility was impaired so I made sure give myself extra time to get back to my car. I even offered to show him the MRI and Ortho diagnosis but obviously he declined and moved on. It was then that I looked at my cell phone to see that after all that back and forth it was exactly an hour from when I had checked my clock to begin with!!!
I protested the ticket explaining that I had been short-changed a few minutes (possibly up to eleven if he had really waited five minutes, ticketed my car and another (at 90 secs/ticket?) and conversed with me for 3) by a meter after timing myself with my cell phone (which automatically updates via GPS or whatever it does).
Yesterday I got a letter back saying they've done an "administrative review" and determined that the ticket was "issued properly and is valid".

I'm protesting again but I fully expect to lose. WTF? I've never felt so robbed by a parking ticket before (usually if I get I deserve them). I feel like wiping my ass with the check I send in.

Any ideas to get out of this nicely before I accidentally run the motherfucker over?
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If it makes you feel any better, I got pulled over by a hot chick officerette this morning for crossing double-double-yellow lines, not using my turn signal and then not being able to show proof of insurance. I used every last ounce of my manwhorish charm to talk my way from a $250 ticket to a $10 fixit ticket.

[pappag]

If it makes you feel any better, I got pulled over by a hot chick officerette this morning for crossing double-double-yellow lines, not using my turn signal and then not being able to show proof of insurance. I used every last ounce of my manwhorish charm to talk my way from a $250 ticket to a $10 fixit ticket.

Will there be a "My date with a hot chick officerette" TR in the near future?

[lemon boy]

Will there be a "My date with a hot chick officerette" TR in the near future?

that'll happen right after we get the "I just passed the wedding ring I swallowed the other week when I got pulled over" TR

[skimoore]

How come you haven't gotten a handicap permit for that leg of yours? Yeah, you're kinda mobile...but at least you could get a temp one for a month or two...

[hutash]

"What we have here is a failure to communicate" .....just cut the head off the fucking parking meter, that will show them.

While justice may prevail with the video et cetera, is it worth your time. I recently got a BS speeding ticket, lost of a mail in response, then just paid it. I probably could have one in court, but it was not worth two days off to go through all the motions, my time is way more costly then the ticket.

[Arty50]

Hop, is your VIN number on the ticket?

http://marc.perkel.com/archives/000015.html

Or, you just need to do what that one guy does. I can't find the article, but there's a guy who buys whatever beater car he can find that runs and has a cap of say $500 on the price. Then he parks it wherever the hell he likes and just tosses the tickets in the trash. When the car gets towed/impounded, he just buys a new one. He figured out the finances of this, and it's the cheapest way to park in the city.

[Tye 1on]

.....just cut the head off the fucking parking meter, that will show them.

just careful mixin them saws and Neil Diamond

[dk_alaskan]

Oh and if you insist on wasting your energy on this, waste it with a good stopwatch and a handfull of quarters at the meter

The local news crew in Spokompton did something similar to this. If i remember correctly, they found half to be working fine and the other half was either + or -. could be interesting if you video taped from coin droppage in the meter to the time it expired if they were wrong....

[gh444]

i actually got a parking ticket while loading my car two minutes after the time. door open, me shoving stuff in, no street sweeper in the area (i was parked in a spot that has no parking for two hours on thurs mornings to street sweep), parking nazi yells at me from a nearby parking lot to stay still or he would inform the "real" police. then he slaps the ticket on my window. $40 gone that could've been spent on hookers and blow. add to this that in the two years i've been in SoCal, i've gotten a ticket for not wearing my seatbelt while i was parked in my driveway, i received a jaywalking ticket on christmas eve and had my car towed with my parking permit hanging from the rearview mirror. the jaywalking was the best because two months after i paid it i received a notice that i hadn't paid it on time and that the fine was now an additional $300. i took a day off, showed up to court, demonstrated that they deposited my check prior to the due date and still lost. $378 and two days off work for a jaywalking ticket.

-aaron

[hutash]

just careful mixin them saws and Neil Diamond

Cool Hand Luke, but you are probably to young for that. Every knows you use a pipe cutter.

[hop]

I got parking ticket.
I protested.
They said "sorry we've investigated and you lose. Pay up."
I pay up and protest again.
They responded saying "we will investigate further..."
I just got a letter that might as well say "We're idiots, you were totally right all along and we're sorry. Here's your money back."

I WIN!!!!!!!!!! All it took was writing a couple of letters and maybe 20 minutes of my time. I'm sure it took them a lot more effort than that.

I guess the moral of the story is that sometimes even the underdog can win.

[haydukelives]

difficult to digest

[Jer]

Fucking cops!

[snowburns]

Hold up... you are missing some upside potential here. Where I come from, you just got yourself a relatively inexpensive parking pass for wherever you want... well at least until they change envelopes.

I really like this idea.