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As someone with a lot of experience with this kind of thing - you're better off paying it now. You'll have to pay it eventually or just never drive in NY again. But they're not going to come after you for it.
I once got a ticket in Myrtle Beach, not because I was doing anything wrong but because a cop on foot darted out between two parked cars to yell at someone across the street then got mad at me b/c i almost hit him . . . then my passenger (my roommate at the time) started running his mouth so the cop wrote me tickets. My roommate said he would pay them but never did. They suspended my license in South Carolina but eventually Myrtle Beach called me and let me negotiate the price and drop the points and restore my license. Of course, some of these tickets were moving violations (none of them were true) not a silly parking ticket.
I also once got a speeding ticket in Virginia (68 in a 55 - where the speed limit changes from 65-55). I was speeding, deserved the ticket, just completely forgot about paying it. My license was thus suspended in DC, Maryland and Virginia. I didn't find it out until a year or two later when my friend (same roommate from Myrtle Beach) borrowed my car to go to Maryland and got pulled over. The cop was going to arrest him thinking that he was me. I took care of it but they never tried to come after me.
My brother got pulled over in a certain NJ suburb for failure to signal a turn. The rear blinker bulb was out but the front was working (and he was in the "turn only" lane). The cop wrote him a ticket for that and because that was back in the day when NJ DLs didn't have pictures and they just mailed it to you he didn't have his new one in the car. The cop said that he had to bring his current DL to the PD to verify or he would get a ticket for that too. The cop had already radioed it in so he knew that he had a valid license - and that the old one had just expired a few days earlier - he just didn't have it with him.
He was in the middle of packing for a cross-country move and forgot about going - and when he remembered he figured, "ah, whatever. It's a $45 ticket with no points. I'll just pay it." After he had moved he got three more tickets in the mail for the same incident. They suspended his NJ license and put out a bench warrant for not showing up to the court date - even though he didnt' get the tickets until after the court date and called them to tell them as much. He hasn't lived in NJ in 10 years and every year he calls the court to try to settle and they insist that he has to appear. He's settled the bail and all that so they already have his money for the tickets but they still insist that he appear. So he basically told them that he's happy to pay the fine but he's not going to enter a plea for things he didn't do and he's not flying 1200 miles for a 10 minute municipal court hearing . . . and that if they want to come get him and to try to extradite him for the $200 they already have then they should go for it.
All you conveyed was how you can't follow simple parking regulations, that you get "tons" of tickets, and it's not your fault, it's somehow someone else's fault.
That's what you said, but if it makes you feel better, feel free to blame me for everything else.
I never said the ticket wasn't my fault I made it clear 2 of my wheels were over the line. Meantime the previous poster just showed a couple examples of how it doesn't have to be your fault to earn a ticket. I will blame u for everything else because ur kind represents the problem.
I see. The guy who obeys the law, that's me, who doesn't get parking tickets or moving violations represents the problem?
I absolutely believe what the previous poster said, but I also believe it is the exception and not the rule. Not everybody gets ticketed unfairly. Of course, that is not what happened to you. You admitted that you deserved those parking tickets, so you can't bring unfair ticketing into it.
I'll never expect you to see my side, because you are a guy who has gotten plenty of parking tickets (you said tons), shows no respect for the system as long as you can do what you want, and will continue to defend your actions.
I'm also enjoying reading your responses, because it seems that my posts really antagonize you. Look how mad you are that someone disagrees with you and calls you out.
Enjoy paying for all those tickets.
I see. The guy who obeys the law, that's me, who doesn't get parking tickets or moving violations represents the problem?
I absolutely believe what the previous poster said, but I also believe it is the exception and not the rule. Not everybody gets ticketed unfairly. Of course, that is not what happened to you. You admitted that you deserved those parking tickets, so you can't bring unfair ticketing into it.
I'll never expect you to see my side, because you are a guy who has gotten plenty of parking tickets (you said tons), shows no respect for the system as long as you can do what you want, and will continue to defend your actions.
I'm also enjoying reading your responses, because it seems that my posts really antagonize you. Look how mad you are that someone disagrees with you and calls you out.
Enjoy paying for all those tickets.
I studies in MA for 9 months and had a car on my name, which I drove with my Azerbaijani driving license. My friend drove my car to NY one day and then I received a letter that I parked in wrong place and have to pay 115$. I thought they sent it to me wrongly and asked for details - where, when, how? And then I realized that there was a penalty on the car, that my friend simply through away. I wrote them the letter that that was not me, even if the car was on my name. Afterwards, my studies were over and I left the States and shipped my car to my home country without getting any reply to my letter. My question is how I can track the status of this penalty? Did they remove it? Or it is increasing from day to day and might cause problems when I will try to visit States one day?
I studies in MA for 9 months and had a car on my name, which I drove with my Azerbaijani driving license. My friend drove my car to NY one day and then I received a letter that I parked in wrong place and have to pay 115$. I thought they sent it to me wrongly and asked for details - where, when, how? And then I realized that there was a penalty on the car, that my friend simply through away. I wrote them the letter that that was not me, even if the car was on my name. Afterwards, my studies were over and I left the States and shipped my car to my home country without getting any reply to my letter. My question is how I can track the status of this penalty? Did they remove it? Or it is increasing from day to day and might cause problems when I will try to visit States one day?
I wouldn't worry about it while you're out of the country. If you're confident that you'll be back in the NY area, then you can write to the agency and explain your situation. I wouldn't worry about it too much.
I would think that the NYC ticket might go up higher if the person doesn't pay it by a certain time? I luckily haven't had one in many years to remember?
So I've got a ton of parking tickets before all in new jersey, usually I just pay them. I got one in Manhattan [parking garage to metmuseum was blocked off] so I parked near a bus stop half my car was over the paint and i got a 125 dollar ticket. I'm not gonna fight it, but what will happend if I don't pay it?? I heard of a couple people who throw their ticket away if it was out of state. I'm mostly worried about hurting my credit or getting arrested if this happends again in nyc.
I studies in MA for 9 months and had a car on my name, which I drove with my Azerbaijani driving license. My friend drove my car to NY one day and then I received a letter that I parked in wrong place and have to pay 115$. I thought they sent it to me wrongly and asked for details - where, when, how? And then I realized that there was a penalty on the car, that my friend simply through away. I wrote them the letter that that was not me, even if the car was on my name. Afterwards, my studies were over and I left the States and shipped my car to my home country without getting any reply to my letter. My question is how I can track the status of this penalty? Did they remove it? Or it is increasing from day to day and might cause problems when I will try to visit States one day?
If you do not pay the ticket and do not appear in court, there could be a warrant issued for your arrest. Living overseas, this is unlikely to affect you. However, if you ever wish to return to the United States, a warrant for your arrest in New York State could complicate the process of securing a visa.
Another thought...if you dont pay it, you might go years and think you got away with it and then one day you go back to NY and park legally BUT, you get booted for the unpaid ticket! I would just pay it.
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