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When finally contacted. Had to go to big city to get car. Car was parked in front of fire hydrant. With 5 different days of parking tickets. Probably after the 5th parking ticket - someone checked for stolen vehicle.
Did take some effort to get released (no charge) of tickets.
There's a VERY simple way to deal with this......don't park illegally, and you'll never have the problem.
It's kind of like how you deal with "police brutality". If, by chance, you screw up, and mistakenly do something that's illegal, and get called on it, realize that you're human, made a mistake, don't mouth off to the cop, and 99% of the time, there's no issue......Will you get a ticket? Yeah, possibly, but then you can take it up with the Judge.
There's a VERY simple way to deal with this......don't park illegally, and you'll never have the problem.
It's kind of like how you deal with "police brutality". If, by chance, you screw up, and mistakenly do something that's illegal, and get called on it, realize that you're human, made a mistake, don't mouth off to the cop, and 99% of the time, there's no issue......Will you get a ticket? Yeah, possibly, but then you can take it up with the Judge.
Which is exactly what the defendant did which led to it being found unconstitutional.
Yet I have lived in places where it almost seemed like they deliberately made the parking rules complicated in order to profit off all the “ oopsie!” incidents...
When my bf lived in Chicago (E. Lakeview, to be specific) he actually budgeted like $100 a month to cover tickets. His neighborhood had very limited residential parking with lots of weird rules around Cubs games, street cleaning, etc. so he just set money aside.
Sure, he didn't have tickets every month but I think it drove him less crazy to just have it covered. Me being from a small town I was just aghast to plan to spend money to cover "illegal activity" even if it was just parking tickets...but that's life in the big city.
A friend had car stolen. It was found by the police and towed to an impound. Despite my friend being the victim, he had to pay the towing fee / storage fee to get it out of impound.
The world is not fair sometimes.
Interesting article ... glad to see some recognition of the issue and some potential remediation.
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