[Vwdiesel] OT uniformed tax collectors coming to a state near you

[Roger Brown]

I had a similar situation back when I was in college.  I was getting ready to graduate and 
you have to run by the admin. office to make sure your account is all paid up and what 
not.  Turns out I had an outstanding parking ticket!  Got the details of when and it was 
from a time before I actually owned a car, although at the time of graduation, I did own a 
VW Rabbit (gas engine though).  So they insisted I pay the ticket before I could graduate 
and I came back that I would pay the ticket if they recovered my "stolen automobile" with 
the license plate on the ticket.  Well that got them looking and sure enough, it was 
someone with my name from across the state that had been ticketed while visiting the 
campus some years back.  I guess it was lazy campus police that just matched up owner's 
name with student of the same name.

Also, before that issue, I ran into a strange construction zone/speed limit issue in 
central WA.  Was driving along through the scab lands area in the middle of the state, 
where you can't see that far in the distance with the ups and downs in the road.  Up pops 
a "Road construction ahead" sign, then miles of no signs of road work.  Then another sign 
and more miles of nothing.  This went on for like 10-15 miles then rounded a sort of blind 
turn and there was another sign, a road crew and the state patrol car stopping traffic.  I 
managed to stop and the officer chewed me out for almost not stopping in time.  Did get 
away with just the warning, but told him about the signs spread half way across the state. 
  It was sort of like the boy that cried wolf, after seeing sign after sign with nothing 
(no speed limits or distance to construction zone) they sort of lose their effectiveness. 
  I don't think it was a speed trap or anything, just the case of an over zealous (or 
lazy) construction worker putting signs way out ahead of where they were working just so 
he did not have to move them during the day.


On 2/7/2012 5:58 AM, Dave Cook wrote:
> Someone in this thread lamented that nobody fights these ridiculous tickets.
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> Here is someone who did in Junction City, Kansas (about a half-hour drive away from me).
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> Another article.
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> Basically, she got a $55 parking ticket from the city on private property (apartment parking lot) overnight for parking on the line.  Next to her own car.  She parked like that to make room for a moving truck that was using the next spot over.  Apparently that night, the city ticketed a bunch of others in the same lot.  She didn't feel that they could/should ticket people on private property, and the court of appeals agreed.
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> Dave Cook



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   Roger