Question about parking tickets

[RagingInMiami]

I got a parking ticket tonight on Miami Beach. I'm suppose to pay $18.
But my car still has an Arizona license plate, so wouldn't that make it hard for them to track me down if I don't pay the ticket?

[kanrok]

1. There is an interstate compact.

whether it covers this is questionable. but why take the chance for $18?

[ChoralScholar]

2. I got a parking ticket in Hinsdale, IL

in a rental car from Avis at O'Hare. The car was rented to my company was headquartered in Greer, South Carolina, and I was living in Fayetteville,Arkansas.

And those idiots STILL found me to collect their freakin' 8 dollars.

[miss_kitty]

3. If you want to license that car in Fla-they might be able to check.

Seattle hasn't seen an $18 parking ticket in years.:cry:

[RagingInMiami]

5. you mean it's more in seattle?

I was complaining cause it used to be ten bucks here.

[Heddi]

9. It's like $38 bucks in Seattle

I had parked in a 'loading only' zone for TWO MINUTES (i had to run inside my building and get a bus schedule) and I got a FREAKING PARKING TICKET FOR $38.

They're outrageously expensive in Seattle.

[RagingInMiami]

11. that's highway robbery

[miss_kitty]

12. Yeah if you park in my hood over time-$44 (permit parking)

handicap violation-I think $150 or $250. Too close to a stop sign? $67. Those are some of the ones I know.

[Heddi]

13. I think the handicapped-parking ticket is $250

And of course it's so convenient that City of Seattle just increased downtown meter-parking rates from like $2.00 an hour to $2.75 an hour.

And I can't TELL You how many times I've put 2 hours (the max) worth of $$ into a meter, only to come back WAY before the 2 hours was up and find that not only do I have a ticket, but the time is expired. I've called the city and complained and their excuse "well, you're the first one to complain about that meter, so there must not be a problem."

One ticket that I got and fought--we had taken my husband's dad & wife to the Space Needle. We parked on some side-street off of 1st and put 2 hours worth into the meter.

I was watching the clock SO CAREFULLY and realized about 10 minutes before the meter was to expire that we didn't have enough change. So we went to the Space Needle gift shop, got $3 in quarters, and hubby and I went back to the car to re-feed the meter.

We get about 1/2 a block away from the car and there's a cop standing next to the car with ticket book in hand. I say "No FUCKING way he's writing us a ticket...we still have 2 minutes left!" I swear AS WE GOT TO THE CAR the meter clicked from 1 minute to 0, at which point the cop tore the ALREADY WRITTEN TICKET from the book and put it on the car. We're like WHAT THE FUCK? "You wrote out the ticket before the meter was expired?" Cop's like "Yep". We say "Well, we were coming up to put more $$ into the meter" Cop says "too bad" and walks away.

I was SO pissed. I totally fought that with the magistrate. I had the receipt from the gift shop (we had to buy a pencil to get change). It's not like we were hogging a meter (on a very empty street) for even 5 minutes past expiration---the ticket was ALREADY WRITTEN BEFORE THE METER EXPIRED.

The magistrate dropped the ticket charge.

[miss_kitty]

14. you know, there are enough illegally parked cars in this city

that those frustrated nazi-types don't need to make shit up. I have a disabled tag, so I don't pay, but I got a ticket when my tag was properly displayed-I got that voided when I got home. That was bullshit. If crap like that happens again-call the office the same day-they can void mistakes on the same day.
I got a ticket for not having a Zone 8 permit. I guess the PARKING TICKET they gave me covered up my Zone 8 permit:eyes: Got that voided. And another one too that was written in error.

They work for us. It does no one here any good when they get all shitty like that. It costs more money.

[huskerlaw]

4. Might make it more difficult

But they can probably find you. Read the ticket though, it's quite possible that your $18 ticket gets quite a bit more expensive if you don't pay it by a certain date. And if you're ever going to register it in Florida, you will have to pay it then.

[RagingInMiami]

6. You're probably right

I should just pay the damn thing.

[huskerlaw]

7. I would...

I've tried to avoid paying a parking ticket and learned the hard way. My $25 ticket ended up costing $50. That sucked.

[Historic NY]

8. Your car is registered with AZ plates.....

and they use computers, so one way or another they will find you. Pay the 18 bucks.

[Heddi]

10. Two things will happen

1) They can track you down using your licensplate through some interstate tracking thing and send you a letter in the mail asking for the $18

2) They don't track you down, but if you go back to Florida, and get pulled over, there may be a bench warrant for your arrest since you didn't pay the fine

#2 I'm not so sure about, but I know that's what happens if you don't pay a speeding ticket in one state when you live in another.

Just pay the $18 and be happy you don't live in Seattle where the parking tickets START at $38....

On edit--if you don't pay within X time frame, the parking ticket will increase and keep increasing on a set schedule.

I think in Seattle, they give you 15 or 20 days to pay. After that, the fine is increased by $25, then increased by $50 for each subsiquent 15/20 days that you don't pay.

That's why the city just overturned a ruling that allowed the police to impound cars that had unpaid parking tickets---the argument was that the people who were most likely to get their cars impounded were the poor and working poor who couldn't pay the original fine, only had one parking ticket, but over time a $38 ticket turned into $200 worth of parking tickets.