Mistaken ticket question

[look 171]

Got mail from Berkeley's citation dept to the tune of 900 bucks. Somehow this silver Honda is registered to me? I do not own a Honda and never have but an S2000 I sold years back. Completely different color, and lic plate. I have been on the phone and several email later with no answer or reply. What do you think?

[Steve Carlton]

I think you have nothing to worry about, but it would be nice to straighten it out. Sounds like it could be a scam. Did you call the City of Berkeley with a number you found online vs the one in the mail?

[Zeke]

I got the same deal but not from Berkley. One person driving in the HOV lane on the FW somewhere near San Francisco and a license that was sort of like our personal plate. Red Corvette and we have a red Boxster. I sent them pics of each and said sorry bud. A week later I got a letter saying yep, they aren't the same. Car or plate.

[stevej37]

Someone made a mistake...you will not be liable.

[Noah930]

Usually there’s a way to contest online. I’ve gotten a couple tix for cars I didn’t own. Once was for a parking ticket and the other for a Fast Lane violation. I wrote back that while I had the license plate in the citation, the car (make/model) in the ticket didn’t match mine at all, and that I could prove I wasn’t in the town on that date. Never heard back from either one.

[Dantilla]

After the second time getting an invoice from a toll booth in Massachusetts for a Ford Ranger sitting in storage 2000 miles away, I simply ordered new license plates for the Ranger. No more problems.

[LWJ]

My favorite ticket was written in Santa Rosa in 1992. It said “California” plate xxx-123. My plate was Oregon. Didn’t sweat it.

[look 171]

I kept calling the number on the letter but never though of looking it up on the net for the "real" number. I hope its just scam. What a PITA

[GH85Carrera]

I was in California 4 times now in my 911. On one trip I pulled in a gas station to get gas of course. A cop pulled into the parking lot to goo inside, and he looked at my 911 and saw no front tag. He goot out his ticket book, and walked to the rear of my car, saw an Oklahoma tag, and put his ticket book away and went inside as I smiled.

In NYC as I went over the George Washington Bridge I had a EzPass aand I got aa big VIOLATION flashing light and I assume it took my picture. There was a 18 wheel Semi just inches behind me as we all went at 4 or 5 MPH into Manhattan. No way the saw my rear tag. I was 100% legal, and I did not sweat it. I never got a ticket or any notification. And I never want to go over that bridge again. What a fudge cluster of traffic.

[matthewb0051]

I sold my Euro spec E34 M5 to a quasi famous guy back in the early 2000's. In Texas the plates used to go with the car, so I left them on. This knucklehead kept them on and was picking up tickets for parking, tolls, speed cameras and the tickets were being forwarded to me.

I called his business manager and threatened legal action. Problems stopped on my end after that.

Dude ended up wrapping a Porsche around a tree or something a couple of years later and died as a result.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by look 171

What a PITA

I get so tired of people trying to get over on me illegitimately. Daily phone calls, hourly spam in my email, false advertising - it is indeed a PITA.

Several years ago I got a notice of an unpaid parking ticket in Boston from a car rental company. There were fines and penalties that added up to over $500.
I had rented a car in Vermont, but was never in Boston. I looked closely at the copy of the ticket and saw that they had the year off. The ticket had the right month and date but was written a year before I rented the car. The rental company just said, "Sorry" and that was that.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by matthewb0051

In Texas the plates used to go with the car, so I left them on. This knucklehead kept them on.......

Similar.

Sold a Tahoe. Guy was racking up toll road charges.

Got in touch with him and he said "sorry, didn't realize it would charge you...."

Stopped for a bit then started up again a few months later.

Left him a voicemail that he had two choices, get his Shyte together and get it properly registered and let me know he did it or since DMV seems to think it still belongs to me, and you can't prove it doesn't, I'm reporting the vehicle stolen. You have 48 hours.

Sold the Yukon and similar crap, this time I kept the plates AND pulled the registration sticker.

Had to meet the guy for something a couple of days later and he's driving the thing. He starts complaining I that I took the regi sticker.

I just looked at him and said well yeah, you're out here driving an unregistered and uninsured car with switched plates, that's the entire reason I removed everything I could that ties me to this thing.