i am so annoyed. i parked my car on the street in san francsico earlier this month on a tuesday am. i then got a ticket for street cleaning. the sign said street cleaning mon, weds, friday AM... i was parked there tuesday AM... WTF?
so i wrote a letter explaining my case and protesting the ticket as i am certain i did nothing wrong.
yesterday i got a letter saying my ticket still hadn't been paid and it now has some additional late charges tacked on...
okay, so the original ticket was only $25, but it is the principle. i am not paying for something i didn't do. you know?
one of my customers used to work for the PD in SF and said parking ticketers do this all the time. they give out tickets when the violator was clearly doing nothing wrong. the logic is that if they do this to 100 people, 80 of them will just pay the fine, while the other 20 will fight it.
what person would just PAY the ticket when they did nothing wrong.
sure, i guess it might have been easier for me to just pay it then write letter after letter to the Department of Traffic and Parking... but it is the principle....
so count me in with the 20 people who fight! i will not pay this ticket. i will just keep sending my letters... seriously, the sign did not say tuesday and i had a friend double check for me to ensure i was not crazy...
stupid san francisco... this is why i live in the suburbs!
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I got a letter from San Francisco saying I had not paid my parking ticket. I called them and they gave me the date I had done this. Yea, the parking ticket was issued the day after the police recovered my stolen totaled car. Whatever! They are stupid.
Wow, at least you haven't had to deal with Auto Return. That's where your towed car goes. One guy went to pick up his vehicle, stolen recovery. They brought it to him using a forklift. No one told him two of the wheels were missing and there was accident damage. He had to call a tow truck to pick it up (cha-ching) with a flat bed cause Auto Return wouldn't hold it there for him. A-holes. You fight that ticket Nikki, maybe we should take a road trip and talk to them in person!!!!
I worked in the city for years starting at the wise old age of 18. I use to have a park now pay later way of doing things. I had a whole glove compartment full of tickets and never paid a single one........Don't tell..
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