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10-07-2011, 07:28 PM | #1 |
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NYC parking tickets... thought it was illegal to receive 2 in under 24hr?
Went into the city to help my brother move in. Parked on East 65th street at a reasonable distance from the hydrant. I was 10 feet away (over a car's length), as was the car on the other side of the hydrant. Let's be serious, the 15 feet law really doesn't happen in NYC...
I got a ticket time stamped a half hour after I parked for $115 (WTF?!?!). Then I got a second one 19 hours later before I could even get to my car for the same exact thing at the same exact place, another $115. I mean what the hell there has to be something illegal with this. Everywhere else you're not allowed to be ticketed for the same violation at the same place twice in under 24h.. Or else in theory a cop could just stand right there and issue me tickets every 5 minutes under this reasoning... I took pictures, sent in an appeal, told them how I got 2 tickets before I could even get to the car and it got denied. WTF thinking of just not paying it and to hell with it. I was driving a rental by the way.. think it'll eventually catch up with me? I'm gonna be moving out of the country soon... |
10-07-2011, 07:59 PM | #2 |
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Well it could eventually mess with your credit...sucks. Can't see how anyone can drive there at all it's insane.
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10-07-2011, 08:46 PM | #3 |
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I once used a toll way in the lane that reads the easy pass thingy. I forgot that I was in a rental.
Since they snap pictures of your license plate, they are able to send you the bill in the mail. There's normally a service charge of $1 on top of the $0.75 toll. The rental company received that bill, added a $10 service fee on it and sent it to me. |
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charged me an additional fee a few weeks later.
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10-07-2011, 10:48 PM | #5 |
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You can't really fight it, I don't think. It will go to collections and go straight onto your credit record. Regular cops in NYC will tell you they won't bother with most traffic/parking violations, but the traffic/parking guys are complete assholes.
A friend has a disabled permit for her car. She has MS and cannot walk very far. In NYC if you have disabled plates / permits, you get free parking at the metered spots. A regular cop wouldn't even think twice about not giving out tickets for this. The traffic cops do it all the time. Most times, the "offender" doesn't think it's worth it to try and fight the hundred dollar ticket and just ends up paying. She got a ticket. She had to FIGHT to get the ticket to go away. Shameful.
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Man.. my EZ pass BROKE. It ran out of battery and didn't work, and I had no idea when I went through the toll booth. They charged me for not paying. I wrote them a letter explaining that I have one, but their crappy EZ pass ran out of battery (it's a battery powered RFID) and they can't blame me for that since there's no way of knowing how long it's lasting. They gave me a new EZ pass for "free" but still charged me some weird processing charge. WTF MAN
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10-08-2011, 06:29 AM | #7 |
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In DC, I believe the law says they can ticket you every 2 hours for the same offense if that's the law in NY, you actually got off easy!
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10-08-2011, 06:51 AM | #8 | |
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This happened to me. Except I got lucky. I was at one with a gate and the gate didnt open. I honked and got one of those cops to come over handed me a mail in. And I got charged a $25 service fee for the mailin from an EZPass lane. WTF! |
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10-08-2011, 09:37 AM | #9 | |
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Over here they issue us a sticker with a metallic coil in the back to be placed on the windshield. Their proximity sensor, mounted 10 ft high is so good that even if someone tail gates you, both cars are correctly accounted for. |
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10-08-2011, 05:42 PM | #10 |
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illegal to get two in less than 24 hours? You're kidding,of course! There's no Easter Bunny and,in NYC at least,you can get 20 parking tickets in 24 hours.
OK...a little less sarcasm.I think there's a law (specific to NYC probably) that says if a violation goes uncorrected for a number of hours (2?) you can get another ticket.However I'm not 100% certain of this. |
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10-08-2011, 09:17 PM | #11 |
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Here in PA you can't get the same ticket for the same violation at the same place in a 24h period...
Since it was a rental, would it actually go to my credit? The car is registered to Hertz, they'd pass me the bill but ultimately wouldn't they be responsible for paying NYC parking authority? |
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10-08-2011, 09:42 PM | #12 |
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Read your rental agreement. I'm pretty sure Hertz's lawyers have written it in such a way as to absolve the company of your actions. Just pay the tickets and move on.
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10-08-2011, 11:08 PM | #13 |
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Hertz will get the tickets and pass them along to their ticket handling service, which will come after you. Hertz already has your credit card info, so they will just charge the tickets to that, and a pretty hefty administration fee for the two tickets they have to pass off to the traffic services company.
They can ticket you all day in New York, it's not at all unusual to see cars one ticket in the morning and five in the afternoon as you walk by. |
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10-09-2011, 12:38 AM | #14 |
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Just an FYI to you guys - if you get a legit violation that you're about to pay in full just to be done with it - always click "dispute this violation" first - it will then attempt to auto-settle with you for 60% of the original fine if you agree not to dispute. This is an awesome way to save 40% on all NYC parking tickets.
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The only way to really deal with those tickets is to go to the DMV the day of the offense and you get to pay a little less. Quote:
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10-10-2011, 12:15 PM | #18 |
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You didnt know about that trick? Yeah it worked every time ive had to do it over the years.
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10-11-2011, 08:29 AM | #19 | |
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You're not going to get out of this. You will end up paying Hertz the fees. They go through this all the time.
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