While I would agree, twice in the last 20 years I have had my license
suspended for a parking ticket issued in Garden City Long Island (I live
in NYS but not near LI). In neither case had I been on Long Island
during the year that the tickets were issued. In both cases I had to
write asking for the ticket. In neither case did the description of the
vehicle match mine (though the plate number did). I each case, even
though the DMV records (which the town had to look up to get my mailing
address) showed a vehicle mis-match, I had to send copies of my
registration showing my plate number and a different vehicle description
and ask that the ticket be dismissed. The whole time this mail-go-round
was going on my drivers license was officially suspended.
Luckily at the time the police did not have the auto plate readers now
in use, so I just had to drive carefully, not speed and avoid parking
anywhere I might get a ticket.
On 2011-09-20 10:21 AM, Skip Saunders wrote:
> Sorry... I don't have much sympathy for the "victims" in this thread. You
> receive a ticket; pay it or go to court and get it reversed.
>
> The "ticket blew off the windshield" or "ticket was taken by a bystander"
> arguments don't really hold much water with me either. Those kinds of
> events are simply way way too rare to be honest portrayals of events.
> (Usually, the sight of a ticket promotes a response like..."Boy, wouldn't
> you like to see the person's face when they get back to the car and see the
> ticket!")
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