“The citizen is assumed to be lying.”
I received a parking ticket outside a restaurant in Newark about 20 minutes after I had put an hour’s worth of quarters into a meter (the time was written on the ticket). I described it to a friend (retired cop), and he said this was routine; they assumed you couldn’t miss a day of work to go to court (and probably lose anyway, since it couldn’t be proven).
I haven’t parked at a restaurant in Newark since then, and that was over 10 years ago. I hope it was worth it for North Zimbabwe; what a toilet. Social media must make it much easier to boycott towns that have these ticketing blitzes as municipal fundraisers.
Earlier this year, by a stroke of luck, I avoided a false ticket.
I was parked in a 2 hour maximum free spot in Boston. I was gone no more than 1:15 and as I turned the corner going back to my car, there was Mr. Parking Gestapo just taking his book out to write me up. I hit the panic button on my remote starter, which went off and startled him. I yelled “What are you doing? I haven’t been parked anywhere near two hours!” at him.
The fat f*ck didn’t say a word, took a few steps to the car parked in back of me and wrote that car up. I don’t recall that car being there before me, so that person got the fake ticket...
Earlier this year, by a stroke of luck, I avoided a false ticket.
I was parked in a 2 hour maximum free spot in Boston. I was gone no more than 1:15 and as I turned the corner going back to my car, there was Mr. Parking Gestapo just taking his book out to write me up. I hit the panic button on my remote starter, which went off and startled him. I yelled “What are you doing? I haven’t been parked anywhere near two hours!” at him.
The fat f*ck didn’t say a word, took a few steps to the car parked in back of me and wrote that car up. I don’t recall that car being there before me, so that person got the fake ticket...