Links to help you with paying or disputing your parking ticket

Nice How-to on how to prevent and fight the parking ticket! Note the advice on parking in private area vs. public could be used at Pt. Dume and elsewhere! http://www.wikihow.com/Fight-a-Parking-Ticket

Great blog on how to write a contest and document it with pictures: http://www.rbgrn.net/blog/2007/07/how-to-contest-parking-tickets-and-win.html

And what is the BEST way to deal with your parking ticket or traffic ticket for that matter?
The BEST way to deal with a parking ticket is to have it PAY FOR ITSELF! See how it was done with THIS VERY BLOG! Click here.

Fight your parking ticket with your iPhone, get $10 just for trying! Go here http://techfragments.com/news/531/Software/Use_Your_iPhone_to_Get_Yourself_Out_of_a_Parking_Ticket.html

Please comment if you have successfully contested or disputed your parking ticket! Tell your story!

Yikes, Another Parking Ticket!!!

It just seems that parking tickets happen to me when I'm having the best of times and visiting the greatest of places ;) Last time I reported on getting a nasty parking ticket at Point Dume, near Zuma Beach in Malibu, CA. This time I was having a great time on Melrose boulevard, near Hollywood/LaBrea area. I was at Cafe Stir Crazy. That cafe is frequented by locals, actors, producers, and movie people in general. It has a nice "living room" atmosphere. Or as they say, it is a "living room of your hipper friend". I had one of their great sandwiches. Also took advantage of unlimited (almost) refills on coffee. Anyhow, spent 'bout four hours there and, lo and behold, a nice parking ticket was waiting for me at my car that I parked in one of the side streets off Melrose. I take 100% blame for this on myself. I admit of not looking at the parking sign. I guess because it was a Saturday, it was a nice quiet neighborhood.....


Anyways, I did a little research and I realized that the parking rules change 4-5 times along Melrose between K-Town and Fairfax. This is Amazing... more money into city's pockets... Who knows where this money is going to?? Apparently not to upkeep the parking signs! I took some pictures to document the changes of parking rules -- anywhere from a simple parking allowed all the time in K-town to highly restrictive parking in the Hancock Park/La Brea/Fairfax area. See for yourself.

Luckily, this time I know this $53 parking ticket will pay for itself in about 6 months, based on this article: How to have your parking ticket pay for itself. Got a parking ticket? It only takes a few hours and your parking ticket will pay for itself!

Photos of parking signs along Melrose:



This is one of the more restrictive parking signs. How long does it take it to locate and read it? What a waste of time!












The parking sign below is a very simple and non-restrictive parking sign in K-TOWN, just a mile and a half away! The parking rules change several times and significantly between K-Town and Fairfax!

Pyrabang.com - A great source of incoming traffic for this blog

[Update 6/2/2010: Unfortunately the site pyrabang.com is down and I can not recommend that particular site any more. If you have any suggestions for a similar site after reading this, do leave a comment!]

What is so great about pyrabang.com in connection with parking tickets? Simple: Pyrabang.com is a great website where everyone can post ads/links to their favorite websites. Pyrabang members invest in posts they found interesting and intriguing. So I found that a number of pyrabang members support links to this blog and bring traffic to my blog here.

I have an idea why pyrabang members like to support this blog: Pyrabang.com leaders and members happen to be very concerned about personal freedoms and many of them see parking tickets, especially unnecessary parking ticket a violation of personal freedoms. They are very passionate about it and will support linking to this blog.


If you are interested in starting a blog like that about a parking ticket you have just gotten, feel free to sign up for a free membership at pyrabang.com. Use code mentormatt8 so I will know when you post a link). I will personally invest in traffic to your blog. Chances are there will be others interested in investing as well. And, as a gold member, you can invest too.

Like challenges? Then this one is for you. For an idea how this blog came about and how you can have your parking ticket pay for itself, go here: http://annoyingparkingticket.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-have-your-parking-ticket-pay-for.html

How to have your parking ticket pay for itself

The idea is very simple:

#1 Get a parking ticket (you already must be at this step since you found your way here)
#2 Get angry (optional)
#3 Go to blogger.com and start a blogger blog like this one Pay Annoying Parking Ticket Blog (annoyingparkingticket.blogspot.com), it's free!
#4 Write about your experience getting a parking ticket. Describe your emotions, emotions attract readers! This is your blog post #1. Add some pictures, upload them from your cell phone or digital camera. Here is my original angry post.
#5 Set up your google adsense account at adsense.google.com or use one that you already have.
#6 Make sure you put adsense component on the very top of the blog (easy, use the settings link, see how it is done here)
#7 (optional) You can find some useful resources on how to contest, fight, pay parking tickets worldwide and post links in post #2 on your blog. That is what I did in my post #2.
#8 Place some links to your blog on other blogs, see below.
#9 Watch the money roll in !!!


In my experience with this blog the parking ticket will pay for itself in 8 months. Your mileage may vary depending on how many links you put out there on other blogs and web sites. I only put maybe 20-50 links out there in the first two-three weeks after starting a blog. The places where you put your links can be blogs about traffic tickets, parking tickets, parking troubles in various cities, etc. etc. Just do a google search such as "parking ticket blog" or "traffic ticket blogspot" and you will find plenty of places where people talk about parking tickets, and how mad they are about them. This will be your audience. Put your links to your blog there. To make your blog more useful to these folks, make sure you create post number #2 as in #7 above.

Now this is not the end of the money story! Guess what, I get the kind of traffic every single month and it seems to be growing! So I project getting $64 from Google every 8 months or about $8 or more every single month !!! It's a gold mine ;) And I only had 2 (two) posts for 6 months!!!



If YOU want to start YOUR OWN "parking ticket blog", please leave a comment below and include a link to your blog. Thank you!