I showed my friend this blog and she immediately thought of a bogus parking violation ticket she got from the San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Agency. She was cited for illegally parking in San Francisco when her car was actually in Los Angeles! The language of the citation is very peculiar. Is it possible the SFMTA sends out several such citations "in error", threatening higher penalties, and collects from the people who don't do thorough research and "just pay the ticket"?
I'm enclosing the citation, FIG 1, and the MTA response after my friend wrote them back about their "mistake", FIG 2.
If anyone has experienced a bogus ticket from the SFMTA, please let me know by commenting!
FIG 1. The original citation by SFMTA
FIG 2. The SFMTA response admitting their "mistake".
P.S.: How it all started: http://annoyingparkingticket.blogspot.com/2008/08/annoying-parking-ticket-at-zuma-beach.html
P.P.S.: How you can make money to pay for your ticket: http://annoyingparkingticket.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-have-your-parking-ticket-pay-for.html
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Here's my original entry:
annoyingparkingticket.blogspot.com
Sorry, THIS is how it all started, an amazing story:
Pay Parking Ticket At Zuma Beach, Los Angeles County, California
NYTimes.com today reports about abuses of Disabled Parking Placards in San Francisco. A quote from the CEO of SFMTA clearly shows where the SFMTA priorities lie:
In San Francisco, for example, where roughly 55,000 people hold the placards, the authorities seized more than 2,000 in the last fiscal year, for counterfeiting, use by the wrong person and other reasons. And the city is on an even more torrid pace of confiscations this year.
The problem has gotten so bad that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law last week a measure that increased fines for violators — to up to $1,000 for repeated offenses. It also loosened the hands of parking control officers (a k a meter monitors) to hand out tickets.
The move was hailed by transit officials, who say the result of placard abuse is two-fold.
“Disabled placard abuse does more than just take needed revenue from our transit system,” said Nathaniel P. Ford Sr., the executive director and chief executive of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. “It actually makes it harder for people with disabilities to find a spot when they need one.”
I just got the same ticket, car is in LA, ticket was in SF, car was in LA the whole time
Curious, That is curious, isn't it? For each ticket like that reported here there must be a thousand unreported. Does that seem like an "innocent mistake". I wonder how many SFMTA parking tickets get issues to people who do not have a good alibi and they just pay the ticket!
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