InfernalTest t1_j69lvdo wrote on January 28, 2023 at 7:09 PM

Reply to comment by mowotlarx in Driver fumes over $115 ticket for parking next to a non-existent hydrant by LouisSeize

for the back end to realy COUNT as being in the "cross walk" it has to actually have the rear wheels in the cross walk space ... otherwise it doesnt count - it occurs in traffic court all the time -

you wouldnt know it unless you actually have to fight it

plus the ticket has to be for the violation thats actually stated - so even if she was in the crosswalk - the ticket is for a hydrant -

as a result its the ticket is invalid since the fact that there isnt a hydrant there means the actual facts of the violation are incorrect.

TeamMisha t1_j6a66pj wrote on January 28, 2023 at 9:30 PM

Pretty interesting and sounds like a big oversight of the law. Tires are kind of irrelevant I mean if your whole ass trunk is blocking part of the crosswalk, that seems like an obstruction to me lol, thanks for the insight.

jonnycash11 t1_j6apyv5 wrote on January 28, 2023 at 11:54 PM

Thanks for the info—I did not know that. Do you have a link?

Darth_JarJar300 t1_j6iy3up wrote on January 30, 2023 at 5:45 PM

Yep. I parked in a No Parking zone one time, and the idiot cop who wrote me a ticket marked it as No Standing. Case dismissed.

InfernalTest t1_j6jxvf4 wrote on January 30, 2023 at 9:26 PM

well sometimes not so much an idiot

a lot of cops dont like writing tickets - a lot write tickets because they are commanded to write - so sometimes i have found they will fuck the ticket up -

its always advised that you fight your ticket and you will find often that the time ( AM instead of PM ) or color or year or even a letter is not clearly written on the ticket or even the charge is wrong -( like your ticket that said no standing but really it was for no parking )

the ticket is a charging document and EACH fact has to be correct ( especially for moving violations like seatbelts or redlight or speeding tickets ) for you to be charged and found guilty ...

its just distressing to see some people in this city think that people AUGHT to get tickets as a matter of course of living in the city- this is clearly the wrong attitude to have about the purposes of summonses. the punishment of the citizenry should not be a revenue stream for the city to try to make as much as possible off of - it just results in a toxic regard to following the rules to where people will then be more concerned with avoiding following the rules rather than why they should abide by them in the first place.

Darth_JarJar300 t1_j6kem7v wrote on January 30, 2023 at 11:14 PM

People who park illegally AUGHT to get tickets 100%. Those no parking and no standing signs are there for a reason, and it's bad enough that the city settles for a set amount with UPS and FedEx instead of sticking them with the whole bill.

I 100% deserved a ticket, and people who do shit like that deserve them too.