Park Atlanta, Ruthless

[J. Grouchy]

am i the only one who thinks of 'Fistful of Yen' when he reads the title of this thread?

[mongo]

This is exactly right. They are not going to send out the fugitive squad looking for you, but if you have any kind of interaction with the police where they run your name through the computer and it comes back showing an active bench warrant... They will arrest you.

That being said, the ticket itself provides info about how to file an appeal, which will give you an opportunity to present evidence at a hearing where you can contest the validity of the ticket if the meter was broken, signage was inadequate, someone else was driving the car, etc... But the burden is on you to request the hearing, and if you don't, then you've forfeited your ability to contest the citation.   

One of my law school profs explained it this way: If you don't put a team out on the field at gametime, you lose. Period.

Seriously they would arrest me over a $25 ticket? That is some bullshit when we have known criminals in EAV breaking into people's houses and cars, mugging people, selling crack and they seem to not be in jail for very long at all. Mongo I'd like to hear more. It is kinda scary to think I'd go to jail over this. For me it's not the money, but the principal in this.

I doubt they would come looking for you, but if you got stopped for something else, they might haul you in.

[Tvshooter]

I'm not sure if I can contest the ticket at this late a date. Yes I was inattentive to the sign and it is a valid ticket.   However, after reading the Facebook page FirePARKatlanta and reading through other people's stories I formed an opinion that I did not want to give them my money.  BTW I'm a girl J.Grouchy.  Does my pic make me look like a man? That's not good. Maybe I'll change it to something else.  Thanks everyone for the feedback.  If I get arrested or booted I'll let you know.

Eventually-you are going to pay the ticket, like it or not. The longer it goes by, the more it will cost. If you get a traffic ticket and they run your license plate, you'll be taken to jail, and you'll have to make bail. That will cost you. Then on principal you'll fight it, lose, pay more in court costs and fines, and then STILl pay the original ticket. If you illegally park again, you'll get booted and then pay the boot fee, the new ticket and then pay the original ticket

You aren't not paying it because of some grand principal....you admit that. You just don't want to pay it. You've admitted it's a valid ticket and you weren't paying attention. That's not principal. That's Occupying Childishness.

As for pay parking in the village? It's coming. Regardless of all the agreements, ordinances ect, somewhere in City Hall, there's a bureaucrat working on just that. Increasing the Park Atlanta footprint and revenue generating capacity. Don't think they aren't.

[Go Sox]

am i the only one who thinks of 'Fistful of Yen' when he reads the title of this thread?

Oh my god I love you!  Every time it has come up in my unread feed, I have said to myself "these men are old and ruthless. These men are young and toothless." (sic) and started laughing!  Ha!!!

[J. Grouchy]

am i the only one who thinks of 'Fistful of Yen' when he reads the title of this thread?

Oh my god I love you!  Every time it has come up in my unread feed, I have said to myself "these men are old and ruthless. These men are young and toothless." (sic) and started laughing!  Ha!!!

You have my gratitude

[Go Sox]

am i the only one who thinks of 'Fistful of Yen' when he reads the title of this thread?

Oh my god I love you!  Every time it has come up in my unread feed, I have said to myself "these men are old and ruthless. These men are young and toothless." (sic) and started laughing!  Ha!!!

You have my gratitude

[georgian]

I'm not sure if I can contest the ticket at this late a date. Yes I was inattentive to the sign and it is a valid ticket.   However, after reading the Facebook page FirePARKatlanta and reading through other people's stories I formed an opinion that I did not want to give them my money.  BTW I'm a girl J.Grouchy.  Does my pic make me look like a man? That's not good. Maybe I'll change it to something else.  Thanks everyone for the feedback.  If I get arrested or booted I'll let you know.

Eventually-you are going to pay the ticket, like it or not. The longer it goes by, the more it will cost. If you get a traffic ticket and they run your license plate, you'll be taken to jail, and you'll have to make bail. That will cost you. Then on principal you'll fight it, lose, pay more in court costs and fines, and then STILl pay the original ticket. If you illegally park again, you'll get booted and then pay the boot fee, the new ticket and then pay the original ticket

You aren't not paying it because of some grand principal....you admit that. You just don't want to pay it. You've admitted it's a valid ticket and you weren't paying attention. That's not principal. That's Occupying Childishness.

As for pay parking in the village? It's coming. Regardless of all the agreements, ordinances ect, somewhere in City Hall, there's a bureaucrat working on just that. Increasing the Park Atlanta footprint and revenue generating capacity. Don't think they aren't.

OK! This means WAR! As soon as CofA erects the first meter in EAV, I am tuning up the sewing machine and stocking up on flourescent orange oilcloth and selling "socks" to go over the meters that say "OUT OF ORDER" (Free Parking). AND, I will sell them at a cheap price.

[JBB]

time for another posting of this:

Cool Hand Luke- Opening Scene (The video's owner prevents external embedding)

[James]

If you get a parking ticket you don't think you deserve, can't you contest it like a speeding ticket? Wouldn't that be the principled thing to do?

Yes. I contested a parkatlanta ticket. I never got it, but received notice that I was 30 days late in paying it, so they tried to charge me double. I called the Atlanta PD (or whatever # was on the notification) and they let me get off on paying just the original amount.

In retrospect, I wonder if I really ever got the ticket at all...

I had that happen prior to park atlanta. Never saw a ticket or a first warning in the mail. Only received the second stating that since I had not paid the ticket I had to pay some jacked up amount and my license was about to be suspended. I paid the full fee that day but not before I went into phone battle with CoA.

Basically informed them that I never saw a ticket nor did I see a first warning and I only wanted to pay the original amount. I was told that was between me and the post office, not their problem. I then let her know that it was not "my problem" as I did not hire the post office to deliver the message, they did. USPS is their contractor not mine. Also since they did not use delivery confirmation etc they had no way to be sure the mail even went to my house and how then can I be held accountable for their (or their contractor's) screw up?

We went round and round and this dolt clearly did not understand that sending basic postal mail is not a guarantee that I received the warning.

Finally after I'd heard enough stonewalling I let her have this;

Me: "You know what? We can drop the whole thing as I've already paid the original fine so you can just clear it from my record."

CoA Drone: "Sir no you haven't or it would be in my computer."

Me: "Not sure how that's possible, I sent it in the mail a month ago."

CoA Drone: "We'll we never received it or it would be listed here."

Me: "That's really not MY problem is it, that's between you and the post office."

CoA Drone: *click*

 

Before we got to that point she actually did create a case and three months later I received a check in the mail for the overpayment on the ticket. 

[angryuser]

time for another posting of this:

Cool Hand Luke- Opening Scene (The video's owner prevents external embedding)

Right on.
One of my all-time favorite movies.

[Mollye Murder]

Ok Mongo that makes sense.  I will probably just pay the ticket.  It is likely that I would get pulled over at some point since I'm a notorious speeder.  I would hate to go to jail and pay bail, miss work, explain to my husband why he had to bail me out.  Since you are a lawyer, your advice seems sound. I didn't think they would issue a bench warrent.  Crazy. And TV Shooter to call me childish is rude.  I am always amazed at the name calling here on the Buzz.  We are all neighbors, we all want the best for EAV.  Yeah it's fun to argue over points and have dialog, but to personally attack people is a weak argument (or argumentum ad hominem).  And yes I did minor in Philosophy in college.

Argumentum ad Hominem (abusive and circumstantial): the fallacy of attacking the character or circumstances of an individual who is advancing a statement or an argument instead of trying to disprove the truth of the statement or the soundness of the argument. Often the argument is characterized simply as a personal attack.

[hfranks]

I was ticketed in January and paid by check.  Park Atlanta mailed me a late notice with an additional fee attached, but I checked my bank account and the payment had been made so I figured they were being overly anxious.  I just got another delinquent notice, requesting the late fee.  Is this some Park Atlanta bullshit or an honest mistake?  Currently I'm in danger of being booted and/or towed.  I guess I'll call those nice folks in the morning...

[Flower Lady]

I was ticketed in January and paid by check.  Park Atlanta mailed me a late notice with an additional fee attached, but I checked my bank account and the payment had been made so I figured they were being overly anxious.  I just got another delinquent notice, requesting the late fee.  Is this some Park Atlanta bullshit or an honest mistake?  Currently I'm in danger of being booted and/or towed.  I guess I'll call those nice folks in the morning...

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[LClayton]

I was ticketed in January and paid by check.  Park Atlanta mailed me a late notice with an additional fee attached, but I checked my bank account and the payment had been made so I figured they were being overly anxious.  I just got another delinquent notice, requesting the late fee.  Is this some Park Atlanta bullshit or an honest mistake?  Currently I'm in danger of being booted and/or towed.  I guess I'll call those nice folks in the morning...

We got notice of some Park Atlanta ticket back in November.  We were allegedly parked by a meter in Va-Hi.  Neither of us recall having gone to Va-Hi around the time said ticket was written.  When we do go to Va-Hi, like three times a year, we park on Virginia.  I have no idea what they were talking about.  We never got the actual ticket.  Then, two months after receiving that FIRST NOTICE of the alleged ticket, it was already sent to collections.  What a racket.

[J. Grouchy]

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