| Title: | What's all this fuss about 'sax and violins'? |
| Notice: | Archived V1 - Current conference is QUARK::HUMAN_RELATIONS |
| Moderator: | ELESYS::JASNIEWSKI |
| Created: | Fri May 09 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 26 1996 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1327 |
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Problem: 2 parking tickets @ $30 each to be paid by 4/23/88 or to appear
at a hearing in rm224 Boston City Hall, 10:30 4/11. If I don't
pay or show up, I can't drive in Mass again...so they say on this
computer generated notice from the office of the parking clerk.
In my defense:
1) I never saw either ticket on my car; if I really did something wrong
I would have paid it.
2) At the 2 times I supposedly got ticketed, I wasn't there.
2/20 0813p 67 Symphony - I was on a plane back to Denver
2/20 0815a 4 Symphony - I was packing to leave the Westford Regency.
3) I was in the City from about 11am to 4pm, parked for a while in a
real parking place that had no restrictions that I could tell. And
I never moved the car. I don't know the name of the street, but
it ran under the expressway adjacent to Quincy Market. I looked up
Symphony and I was NEVER on that street.
4) I returned the car to Avis @ Logan at about 5pm.
5) I just got this notice last night, so I can't possibly appear at
10:30 am in Boston on Monday. And...why fly 2000 miles just to
protest my innocence over a $60 ticket.
Can anyone help me? Do you know someone at the City I could call?
I'm sure I could get the documentation to prove my whereabouts. But
how to I handle this from 2000 miles away. Should Avis get involved?
I am posting this several places to try to reach as many people as
possible. Thanks in advance for your help.
Sherry Litasi
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| 495.1 | RANCHO::HOLT | Udobreha Kata | Sun Apr 10 1988 04:08 | 8 | |
Last time I got a ticket in Beantown it was 5 bucks.
Did you leave the car in the Callahan Tunnel?
I would check this with travel admin at PKO...they
might have some idea of how to handle this.
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| 495.2 | Computers never make misteaks | MISFIT::CARNELL | Fanmail from some flounder? | Mon Apr 11 1988 15:18 | 20 |
First, DON'T PANIC, it may just be an error. This happened to me just
a few months ago in New York state. This year we got new license
plates with new numbers. About a month after getting the new plates I
received a summons in the mail from some small town near New Rochelle
telling me that I was going to be arrested if I didn't show up in
court the next day and pay my $50 parking ticket. Not wanting to drive
all night to a little place I've never been to before, I let it slide
till the next day and called the courthouse number listed on the
summons. I gave the clerk all the info and she went off for a few
minutes (I heard keyboard noise in the background so I guess she was
consulting the computer) then came back and told me to forget it. "The
original violation was against a car from Florida." Seems our new
plates have a similar numbering system to other state's and the
computer had sent out the summons automatically when the numbers
matched with out regard to the state. So call first, if it's a similar
mistake it will all be over then and there. If it's not, then you can
request an extension to give you some time to work it out.
Good luck,
Paul.
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| 495.3 | Check all possiblities | CIVIC::FERRIGNO | Wed Apr 13 1988 20:14 | 24 | |
I had a similar situation a few years back. The ticket I received,
in this case, was $15.00. I had located a parking space on a street
near Commonwealth Ave. (this should have tipped me off!), parked
the car and filled the meter with quarters. I returned later to
find that I still had time on the meter -- and a ticket on my
windshield. In examining the ticket, I found that I was parked
in a "restricted" area -- alternate sides of the street parking
for "street cleaning." When I tried to find a sign that would indicate
this, I had to walk a block. There was the tiny sign -- where no
one could see it!
Perhaps this was the case in the area in which you did park on that
day. Some tickets are higher than others; depends on the area and
the offense. If the ticket had blown off of your windshield, or
was removed, you might get an extension.
On the other hand, if you are totally sure that the above did not
occur, I would call the department in question and explain the
situation.
A bit of advice -- hang on to and make copies of all correspondence,
tickets, etc. When I did pay my ticket, I received (nearly 2 years
later) a notice to appear in court for nonpayment. I had to send
a copy of my cancelled check to them.
Good Luck.
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