A Glorious Day!

Shaun @ Tru6 · 11-03-2008, 12:41 PM

Last month I parked our truck, commercial plates, in a loading/unloading zone for our trade show as the Javits was jammed up and it was a short walk, everything is on wheels. Coming back to the truck, I saw the meter maid man drive away in his little scooter leaving me with a ticket for "lack of activity" which was a little surprising since I was gone for maybe 10 minutes.

I contested, explaining the circumstances and won! First time EVVA to win a NYC parking ticket contest!

Jim Richards · 11-03-2008, 12:46 PM

Hot damn! Good job, Shaun.

9dreizig · 11-03-2008, 12:50 PM

Yeah but that's because you're best freinds with Bloomberg..

juanbenae · juanbenae's Garage

nicely done. i like the new format in that this wont turn political. way to stick it to the man!

T$

The Gaijin · 11-03-2008, 01:40 PM

Everyone hates these "meter maids" - but without them NYC would decend into a Bombay/Lagos/Mexico City like madness within hours. The first line of defense of civilization.

Shaun @ Tru6 · 11-03-2008, 02:31 PM

Flipping through the mail today, my heart sank when I came to this one and here's why: When I got the commercial plates for the wonder truck, no one tells you -- not your insurance agent, not the Registry with a little "So you got commercial plates, what's next?" pamphlet -- that to legally park in commercial spots you need all the door text on your company, etc.

A week hadn't gone by after getting the plates when I had to be in NYC for a meeting in the Empire State Building. Imagine how incredibly psyched I was to park outside the building, pay the muni-meter and leave the paper on the dash. $5 to park outside the Empire State Building! Went to my meeting, came out a while later, and had 2, 2 tickets!

Somehow they had make up 2 laws about not having lettering on the door, so that was $230. I contested it saying we are a new company, new commercial plates, sent photocopies of everything in noting how newly registered the truck was.

DENIED.

I mail in that I want a hearing.

Mysteriously, they never got my appeal form, so now I'm at $300 in fines. I call again to talk with a supervisor, wait 30 fricken minutes and the phone goes dead, I send them the appeal info again, don't hear back for a long time until 2 weeks ago when it's now $350. I talk with 3 different departments, nothing they can do, blah, blah blah. $350 down the drain.

So this, this, was a really good day for me.

mattdavis11 · 11-03-2008, 02:38 PM

Alright! I love to hear it when someone stands up to the man.

At school there are parking Nazis everywhere, and they got me one time for failure to display my tag in the rear view mirror. A $35 fine. Come on! It's a free lot, no fees for the tag, and it's nearly empty all the time.

I contested the ticket by saying my car is 24 years old, the rear view mirror had fallen off, and the officer who had written the citation should have noticed (no tint) that it came unglued if they had looked.

Dismissed.

Buckterrier · 11-03-2008, 02:45 PM

Congrats!! I won a court decision in Maine over a traffic violation a few years ago. Even with the cop & the eye witness going on the stand. Watching all those episodes of Law & Order paid off.