Red Light Camera tickets wrong car but Chicago won't fix it
 

I wonder why this is a problem to fix the error

I got a bill in the mail for a toll booth in Massachusetts for a little truck that was in storage near the west coast.

Got it fixed after a hassle.

Then the 2nd bill arrived. Bigger hassle this time, the plate is a digit off, and on a Subaru wagon, not Ford Ranger.

My solution: I got new plates for the pickup sitting unused.

Grrrr.......

Reminds me of a story I heard some years back.

Person had a vanity plate, it said NONE.

Anyone wanna take a stab at what the POPO write when they issue a parking ticket for a vehicle with no plates?

Years ago my daughter borrowed my Acura SUV for a week or so while she was in college. I get a red light camera ticket. Hmm, that's weird. It's near the university. I haven't been there in a while. Her little brother gets a grin on his face, logs into the city's website, calls up video with the ticket # and it shows her driving the vehicle a block from her house. Busted.

We got a toll booth ticket one time when he we took our son up to Connecticut for University. We paid all tolls as we traveled, and we still got the ticket. I didn’t fight it…I paid, and it went away.

Sadly, it's often easier to just pay the extortion...

I got one for my slant nose. The car in the photo wasn’t my slant nose or anything close. I tried to get it thrown out and the idiot city agent would not back down..l fought it in court, the city lawyer looked like an idiot in front of the judge and withdrew it immediately when we were called. The judge was not amused.

I ignore all tickets that come by mail; due process. I keep my registration as a po box.

I have a bunch of tolls from PA, but the fact that they don't have any toll booths and charge double of the e-z pass price really grinds my gears.

I had a EZ pass as I went over the GW bridge into Manhattan. The light flashed violation. There was a semi just inches from my bumper as we crept across the bridge at 5 MPH. Oklahoma has no front tag, and no way they could have seen my rear tag. And I had the pass that had been working fine all day everywhere else.

They never sent me any notice. All they got a a souvenir photo of a nice 911 with a pair of geezers in the seats.

We got a red light camera ticket for a company truck. The license plate was clearly misread but in the photo you could see just enough of the offending truck to make out the company's logo. Turns out the company was one we do business with. We called and told them to take care of their ticket. We thought it was pretty funny. They weren't amused.

In college I got a parking ticket from UT Galveston when my car was in Austin. I wrote a sternly worded letter to UT about how it couldn't be my car because it was in Austin. A while later I realized I wasn't in Austin at the time and my roommate had a girlfriend in Galveston, so maybe it was my car :o

We are talking about Chicago, so extortion and corruption are part of the history of the town. Get enough Internet publicity, and they might back down.

I'm sure that if pushed you'll be told 1 not criminal and 2 not a fine, but a "safety fee". So there's no "due process" for a safety fee that's not due to a criminal infraction (or something like that).

One of my dad's stories is about his days attending college at OU in the 1950s. Like every college then and now, parking is just horrible. He just started parking in a spot and got a ticket every single day. There were no computers in the 1950, and they had no idea who owned the car, so he ignored the tickets.

On graduation day he was in cap and gown about to get his diploma and the head of the police department was walking a b-line towards dad. Dad said he was sweating and figured the police chief was going to take him out of line, and make him pay hundreds in back parking tickets, money he did not have. The cop walked right up to the guy in line next to him and gave him a big hug and said congratulations, and dad realized he had been holding his breath and finally got to relax. He got away with all the illegal parking.

This happened to me in my truck in which one number was off. I contacted the company and after a short discussion, they removed it. Most of these are not run by the police, rather they are run by private companies.

If a car does not have a plate, police record the VIN that is on the dashboard on the lower portion of the windshield.

Chicago....

AZ pushes compliance by making the mail in tickets civil and consequently attaching court dates and leveling points against one's license.


Tolls go to collections... 🤣

I got something like that once several years ago around six months after visiting Chicago. Looked at my bank account one day and they had deducted around $75 for Illinois Tollway. I filed a fraud claim, but lost... I couldn't undo it and thought it was intentional that they wait.

I have heard that AZ seems to be pretty militant about the speed cameras, red-light cameras, etc...

In Texas, I'm not sure if we have/had speed cameras (I've never seen or heard of them), but we did have red light cameras. In 2019 the law was changed to effectively ban them, but from what I understand, certain municipalities may be hanging onto them somehow. I'm pretty sure that Houston and the surrounding suburbs got rid of them, or mostly. I haven't seen one in many years.

Apparently not everywhere.

The documented plates /cases so far have been, NONE, NO PLATE, MISSING, NOTAG, VOID, UNKOWN

Where I worked we had some Cayenne loaner cars that would get red light camera tickets. The tickets are time stamped and we kept a log book of who had the car, what time they took it and what time they returned it. Call the customer and never had any real fisticuffs over it.

One of the devs I worked withqould just park and pay thi ticket because it was cheaper than the permit.

Some cities are, but there are no more cameras at the state level. And even when there were, payment was pretty much voluntary. They couldn't force you pay unless a process server got to you. I think they had 120 days to do it before the ticket went away. It's totally voluntary for people who don't live here. No process server is gonna go out of state. Scottsdale has "alternative service" where the process server can sign an affidavit that they made three good faith attempts, then they tape the notice to your door and you are considered served. Total BS.

I got a parking ticket in NYC once that was written before my meter had expired and I got to the car before it expired. Cop wrote a bogus time on the ticket too. I was so pissed, I went to my office in DC the next week and used a credit card swipe machine to make up a bogus receipt to show my being in DC at the date and time of the ticket. If they were committing fraud, I was gonna do whatever I had to to beat it. I won by mail too. I had to pay upfront, but I sent my letter and receipt and they refunded it.

How about this? Someone used my address to buy a Toyota at a volume dealer (Penske). They never made one payment. I get notices and I call. The collections people are so used to lies that no matter what you say they won't believe you.

3 months go by and a PU is parked across my driveway; 2 guys walking to the door. I meet them and say what's up? It's all about the car. No car here, no one by that name. I live on a street with an alley behind and these 2 fkcs say they are going around to the back. I tell them that if I see one hand over my gate I'm blowing it off with a 12 ga. The did their best to see in the back but no room for a car. There is still the garage.

I waited but I guess they didn't like the flavor of 00 buckshot so that's over. The note got sold to one collection agency after another and I delt with this for 7 years.
As a result there is a fence around my front and 8' high walls in back. Not even my neighbors can knock on the door.

30 minutes ago some Mexican was standing outside the front fence yelling for an answer. They were roofing next door and the best he was able to do was toss a card over the fence.

Long Beach is truly the sewer by the sea. I have feeling someone is gonna get shot on my property some day.

Technically those are not even tickets. They are invoices for "services rendered".

Like any invoice for service that I did not authorize it goes in the trash.

Camera tickets are legal and enforceable in CA. There is an article in the Los Angeles Times today about the possibility of installing speeding cameras.

IDT that's gonna happen because the system is broken as it is. It will be overwhelmed with speeding violations. No one drives the speed limit in L.A. or Orange County (where I usually drive) unless there is slow traffic. 65 in a 50 is the norm. 50 in a 40 and so on.

I was likely a mile or 2 under the 40 MPH speed limit yesterday while the engine was cold. I didn't realize I was holding someone up until they passed me going over a double double yellow line. People around here just don't give a fkuc.

Yesterday as I was walking into Ralph's (Kroger's) some 30 something woman walked into the self serve bakery section, loaded up and marched right out the door setting off the alarm. No one even looked up. The couple in front of me leaving set off the alarm in spite of having a cart full. When I walked through it didn't sound so it was working.

And they are after someone doing 6 MPH over?

Getting back to red light cameras, they turn them over to collections and your credit takes a 100 pt hit. If not more. I got one for a Corvette in Los Gatos which is over 300 miles from me. It was red and had a license similar to the one on the red Boxster. I had to send the image along with a pic of a Corvette pointing out that Boxsters don't have a flat back end with a lip.

They took that one off. I guess I was guilty until proven innocent. What a siht hole.

They are presently not enforceable in Ga. but they are in talks to link it to your yearly registration so it will have to be paid to renew your tag. Booooo!