Archive for June 11th, 2008
What not to do when you get a parking ticket
The next time you get a parking ticket, don’t post your strategy for getting out of it on the Internet. A local motorist received a ticket at the end of May and proceeded to ask for advice about his avoidance strategy online:
Ok, so I got a parking ticket last night in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. I didn’t notice the sign, and know I had seen motorcycles parked there before. Anyway, so I met the cop as she arrived and started writing my ticket. She was very rude, but that’s beside the point.
I am just wondering if my plan to get out of paying the ticket would work. Since the officer did not check the vin#, or write it down, couldn’t I just say that my tag was stolen, and that I was not in Nashville that night? How would they know otherwise, unless they read this!!?? Also, my license was not checked or anything else. Can’t I just deny that I was there, and say that someone borrowed or stole my bike tag??
As users responding to the post pointed out, this is a good strategy for winding up in jail, not for avoiding a ticket. To be fair, the motorist claims later in the thread that he never actually intended to follow through on his plan, but you have to wonder. After all, he did take the time to seek out an advice Web site to check his scheme out. I dread parking tickets as much as the next guy, but admittedly probably not as much as this guy.
