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- D C.
- Rancho Cucamonga, CA
- 180 friends
- 194 reviews
Anyone here ever fought a parking ticket and won?
I got a tix for parking upgrade ?
wheels wrong way ?
I have pictures.6/3/2014 -
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- Pickle R.
- San Francisco, CA
- 372 friends
- 806 reviews
You still have to pay the fine first. Good luck
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- Jordan C.
- San Francisco, CA
- 168 friends
- 585 reviews
The ticket is because you parked on an incline without turning your tires towards the curb. The idea is if your parking brake fails you won't roll into traffic. I got that ticket 7 years ago.
You won't likely make that mistake again, but you are guilty, and should pay the fine. Sucks but that's the law.6/3/2014 -
- B N.
- Montclair, NJ
- 991 friends
- 244 reviews
parking upgrade, duh. you were s'posed to paint fresh lines on the pavement for your spot. you don't expect the city to handle the upkeep for that do you?
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- R J.
- San Francisco, CA
- 206 friends
- 320 reviews
I've seen a truck crash all the way thru a living room and into the garage for not curbing their wheels. Pay your fine and be glad you learned the lesson this way and not by finding out your negligence has killed someone.
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- Junior H.
- San Francisco, CA
- 69 friends
- 0 reviews
Good luck!
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- Jordan C.
- San Francisco, CA
- 168 friends
- 585 reviews
Unless they can magically demonstrate their wheels were curbed, or that the incline wasn't more than the threshold for curbing the wheels, they will lose, and rightfully so.
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- B H.
- San Francisco, CA
- 264 friends
- 176 reviews
Fight it, weird you would have pictures of your tires the day you got ticketed, so what's to loose?
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- Nick M.
- Daly City, CA
- 43 friends
- 47 reviews
Yea you prolly gonna lose but if fight it you'll get an extension and won't have to pay till after the decision
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- Jordan C.
- San Francisco, CA
- 168 friends
- 585 reviews
What justification could he possibly offer other than "I didn't know" (ignorance of the law is no excuse) or "my tires weren't pointed that way", which you have no way of demonstrating.
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- Jordan C.
- San Francisco, CA
- 168 friends
- 585 reviews
So are you recommending in his write-in defense that he send a boob shot? I'm sure that will help.
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- Anja P.
- Los Angeles, CA
- 57 friends
- 58 reviews
Yaha you are lucky....
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- Jordan C.
- San Francisco, CA
- 168 friends
- 585 reviews
An anecdote of one situation a convincing argument does not make.
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Almost got a ticket in the Outer Sunset because I forgot to move my car last year. Luckily I saw the meter maid and explained I just moved into the neighborhood and didn't notice the sign that it was street cleaning that day. At least she was nice and just told me to move my car without writing the ticket. And no. I'm not a woman with big boobs.
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- J T.
- Indianapolis, IN
- 168 friends
- 846 reviews
If you get towed you can visit the impound lot under the express way. When this happens you must pay your towing charges before you retrieve your car - ticket gets paid later. At the impound lot you'll be met with the most friendly clerks behind bulletproof glass. Ahh... good times.
Ticket writers work on incentive - the more they write, the more they make. San Francisco generates about $160M in annual revenue from meters and fines (I think this is close). It's tough to fight a machine this big.6/3/2014 -
- B N.
- Montclair, NJ
- 991 friends
- 244 reviews
i bet Jordan is the life of the party you guise lol
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- Jordan C.
- San Francisco, CA
- 168 friends
- 585 reviews
Nah I'm a boring pedant.
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- P G.
- Woodside, CA
- 38 friends
- 659 reviews
They can make any parking law they want.
I lived in San Leandro in the 80's and for 5 years I parked my car facing traffic (side street).
Then one morning my neighbors and I woke up to discover that everyone on the side street got a ticket for parking 180 inches from the curb(wrong way)
Welcome to urban living.
May I pay your pension costs?6/3/2014
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