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!

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!

Annoying Parking Ticket at Zuma Beach, California (Malibu, CA)

Fig. 1: Point Dume State Park, Malibu, California

This was my first time visiting the beautiful Zuma Beach peninsula right by Malibu, California. Driving right to the tip of the peninsula is the wonderful state park area. You can hike to the top of the hill with beautiful views, you can hike down to the beach ( Matthew McConaughey surfs there, by the way, Surfer, Dude is up in theaters in September 2008 ). Story continues, below...


But I needed to park my car first. There is a miniscule parking space for about 10 cars on the beach side of the Cliffside Drive, and there is what looks like, additional parking on the other side. Driver beware! There are super small no parking signs there! However, many people park there so more people park and feel it is okay, and they do not look for the signs. Possibly because of the beautiful ocean view!?!


Anyhow, today I and ten (10!) other cars got a $64 parking violation ticket for parking there!!


Fig. 2: The ten cars that got a $64 ticket today!




I'm posting this blog to raise the awareness of these hideous and annoying "parking" places that are just local community money machines!


What alternatives does one have for parking there and enjoying the beautiful Pt Dume Park and the beach?


The 10 parking spots are definitely insufficient, and even they are limited to 2 hours! It takes at least 1 hour to hike the cliff and it takes at least 30 minutes to hike down to the beach!


I have not seen any street parking anywhere near?! Is there any?

I have seen a bus stop saying that bus stops there every 1/2 hour in the summer. But where does it take you? Where would be a good place to park the car (for hours) and take the bus to Pt Dume?




Fig. 3: The two-hour limit miniscule parking lot.


I invite anyone to comment with any of these answers and to post links to other parking ticket traps in the Los Angeles, CA, USA, or for that matter, the entire world! Maybe we can create a map of nice places to visit with instructions on what to be careful about. So we can enjoy the places to the fullest!


P.S.: See the exact location on panoramio: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/12791684

P.P.S: Here is the official web site for Pt. Dume State Beach where the annoying parking ticket was issued: http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=623. Here are the other beautiful California State Parks: http://www.parks.ca.gov.

I'd like someone to comment if they found parking or traffic issues at other state beaches or state parks.