My own parking ticket

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TerryMathews

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: jpeyton
Originally posted by: Gusty987
Originally posted by: TerryMathews
The $10,000 question is: Is it a public or private uni?

If it's public, the campus police have the same authority as a local police force - the ticket will end up on your driving record if they decide to be difficult about it. If it's private, then they have no real leverage outside of towing the car, but the boat has sailed on that one. :)

Public (Univ. of TX)...so...sh*t.

Actually I wouldn't be so sure. I've gotten public university tickets while visiting friends, and I've torn them up without any issues on my record.

I said if they decide to be difficult about it. Odds are they'll be lazy and not report it to the DMV considering the number of parking tickets your average uni hands out in a day.

Still, you're playing the odds over a very small ticket, that you can probably talk your way out of especially since you aren't even a student there.
 

Turkish

Lifer
May 26, 2003
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Originally posted by: KarenMarie
Well, here is what happens when you dont pay a parking ticket in the great state of New Jersey.

I got a parking ticket in 1987. I dont ever remember being in the town the ticket was from... could have been a sibling borrowing the car.. or whatever.. it was my car, my responsibility. Anyway... there is this parking ticket. $6.00 in 1987. I did not know of this ticket... honest. Now, about 6 months later... I get in a fender bender. No biggie, no damage, no problem. We reported it to the police and just fixed our own cars. Six months later... I moved to the UK. I was there for 8yrs. I then went to Nashville, TN for 5yrs. I had a license in the UK and got one in TN. in 2000, I came back to NJ.... I was looking to change my TN license to a NJ one....

Come to find out... that $6.00 parking ticket in 1987... well, the suspended my license for it somehwere between ticket and when I went to england... so according to them... my being in that fender bender... driving while suspended. Now... the cop at the accident ran BOTH our licenses at the time of the fender bender and mine came up clean. no outstanding tickets, no suspensions.. nothing....

Bottom line... I got hit with the ticket... drving while suspended and 13yrs interest.

$6.00 parking ticket cost me.... $1,035.00 and it will remain as a judgement against me on my credit report until 2012... 7yrs from the date I paid it.

sorry but i have gotta say it

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