Fighting Parking Ticket

[wooohooo]

Why is it so incredibly difficult to fight a parking ticket? I mean difficult as in it takes forever. From the day I got the ticket, they told me I had to wait a month to receive another notice stating whether I want to fight it, or pay it. I told them I want to fight it and they send me a court date for May. I go this ticket in October. This is pretty ridiculous.

I know $50 doesn't sound like a lot, but for a student it is and for something I had little control over. If it gets to be too much of a hassle I might just suck it up but the system seems pretty stupid.

[jayswin]

Just pay the ticket you POS....Your the reason society is falling apart.....Stop tying up the courts....Be a man, and take responsibility...yadda yadda yadda.

There, I got it all out of the way, so you don't have deal with dozens of posts like that.

[Berger_4_]

Dammit flameswin, I wanted a shot at being the holier-than-thou poster!

It's crappy how awfully slow the system is, but that's bureaucracy for ya! It's slow like that so more people like you and me just say eff it I'm not gonna bother fighting it cause of all the time it takes. What'd you get it for? And do you have a legit argument? Cause if you're fighting it just because you wanna try get off...well all I can do is wish you good luck.

As an aside, my one friend was issued a ticket by that cop that tried to pull a u-ey on the highway a couple weeks before he got killed...as awful as it is, his ticket was thrown out because the cop couldn't show up to court to prove my friend's guilt.

[drewboy12]

Im sure if you go to court, say your a full time student, and $50 is just to much money to pay a parking ticket, Im sure the judge will throw it out. Granted your in University, or college? Just say what you are taking, and what not... I am more then sure they will be good to you, if your honest to them. Not like your an unemployed "pos"

[drewboy12]

....And dress nice, and speak well. $50 is $50.

[dj_patm]

I've had a parking ticket and never payed it. Nothing happened.

No warning in the mail, no phone call, no towing me away, no problems registering my car.

You should've just waited. Sure it's 10$ more if you wait and they warn you but its worth it if they dont do anything.

Plus you can always say there was no parking ticket when you got there (which actually happened to me once) and that someone might've pulled it out as a joke or something or it blew away.

[bcb]

Temporary Insanity?

[bcb]

Originally Posted by flameswin

Just pay the ticket you POS....Your the reason society is falling apart.....Stop tying up the courts....Be a man, and take responsibility...yadda yadda yadda.

There, I got it all out of the way, so you don't have deal with dozens of posts like that.

You forgot "do the CRIME, do the TIME!"

[Boblobla]

I always go and get my speeding tickets reduced but parking fines are a waaaaaaaay bigger pain in the ass so I normally pay them. Actually, I normally forget to pay them and then have to pay the $50 + $20 (late fee) + $8 (whatever AMA charges me when I renew my registration). I hate parking tickets.

[wooohooo]

Originally Posted by Berger_4_

Dammit flameswin, I wanted a shot at being the holier-than-thou poster!

It's crappy how awfully slow the system is, but that's bureaucracy for ya! It's slow like that so more people like you and me just say eff it I'm not gonna bother fighting it cause of all the time it takes. What'd you get it for? And do you have a legit argument? Cause if you're fighting it just because you wanna try get off...well all I can do is wish you good luck.

As an aside, my one friend was issued a ticket by that cop that tried to pull a u-ey on the highway a couple weeks before he got killed...as awful as it is, his ticket was thrown out because the cop couldn't show up to court to prove my friend's guilt.

Sorry to hear about your friend.

I live in an apartment near Whyte and someone was parked in my stall when I came home late at night so I parked in the street. Went to move my car in the morning and got a ticket. Do I have a legit argument?

[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by wooohooo

Sorry to hear about your friend.

I live in an apartment near Whyte and someone was parked in my stall when I came home late at night so I parked in the street. Went to move my car in the morning and got a ticket. Do I have a legit argument?

It was the police officer that died not his friend.

And no, you do not have an arguement. Two wrongs dont make a right. Didn't your mother ever teach you that?

[Byrns]

Originally Posted by wooohooo

Sorry to hear about your friend.

I live in an apartment near Whyte and someone was parked in my stall when I came home late at night so I parked in the street. Went to move my car in the morning and got a ticket. Do I have a legit argument?

Nope

[kevman]

Have you gone to the Calgary Parking office on 9th ave and 6th st? I find the parking tickets I've fought were incredibly painless and took ~2 weeks before they were sorted out.

[East Coast Flame]

Don't pay parking tickets. I have a couple piled up, never had any issues with them

[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by East Coast Flame

Don't pay parking tickets. I have a couple piled up, never had any issues with them

Good advise, you going to teach your children that to?

[East Coast Flame]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

Good advise, you going to teach your children that to?

Most definitely. You can go ahead and feel morally justified about paying your debt to society. I'll keep my 50 bucks.

[albertGQ]

Dont you have to pay all your parking tickets when you have to register your car? Or is that just speeding tickets?

[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by albertGQ

Dont you have to pay all your parking tickets when you have to register your car? Or is that just speeding tickets?

Depends on the parking lot that you received the ticket. Some lots can register the tickets with the province in order to collect. Not all do that.

[albertGQ]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

Depends on the parking lot that you received the ticket. Some lots can register the tickets with the province in order to collect. Not all do that.

I'm talking city lots. they all have to be paid right?

[Nufy]

Who issues the ticket ???

If its Impark tell em to go piss up a rope.....