Stupidest parking tickets?

[CPA]

Originally posted by: gunblade

Originally posted by: Ylen13

Originally posted by: rudeguy5757
dont you guys know anyone who is a cop??? You can get the lil FOP stickers for your window, they prevent 90% of tickets (if they are new and not ten years old)....I have had one on my rear window for 4 years now, and havent even got pulled over since I put that bad boy on

sorry but what is "lil fop stickers" ?

Yeah, I want to know, too. Care to iterate ?

FOP = Fraternal Order of Police

 

[DJediMaster]

Just finished paving the driveway and parked the car on the road next to our house. Car was ticketed over night for 'illegal parking'...

 

[Syringer]

Does anyone have any info on these fop stickers??

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
"60 KM/H IN A POSTED 50 KM/H ZONE"
"CARELESS DRIVING"

Stupidest parking tickets?

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: kevin000
Got pulled over once for bs reasons so the cop had to let me go. After that, I put my Rosary Beads (not very religious but they are a 'family heirloom' over 100 years old) on the rearview mirror and I haven't been stopped or ticketed in 8 months...

Stupidest parking tickets?

 

[Hartford]

Originally posted by: DurocShark
What's yours?

I got one yesterday on the Fiero. Parked on a public street, in front of my apartments. Ticket reads: "PARKED - PRIVATE/PUBLIC PROPERTY FOR SALE SIGN"

The car had been there overnight. I drive it, so that's the longest it sets in one place.

Needless to say, the City of Anaheim is gonna hear the wrath of the shark! That's a load of crap.

dont let them get away with that garbage

 

[Imported]

Originally posted by: DurocShark
I had (my wife drives it now) a 96 s-10 that's lowered, tonneau cover, tinted windows, etc. A year after I got it, I was driving in Irvine, CA on a Thurs eve after work and got pulled over for "vehicle inspection". Had to sit there for 30min while the cop with the vehicle height meter got there. It's a thing on a long stick that verifies the car/truck is over whatever the limit is (6" I think?)

The truck isn't that low, so no prob with the meter. Then the cops, pissed that I passed that test, started testing lights, door latches, seat belts, etc. No problems. Dorks had to let me go.

I got home and laughed for hours. I had two obvious issues they missed! I had expired tags (the new stickers were in the glovebox and I just hadn't put them on yet), and tinted front windows. Bwahahahahahahaha.

NOTE: I don't think all cops are a-holes. Most of 'em are pretty cool. But it always seems to be the a-holes who pull you over for bs reasons or hassle you. Guess that's what makes 'em a-holes. heh

Irvine cops suck. They have nothing better to do because they think no one is doing anything in their city.. I was followed for 5 blocks the other day going to Target.. Blah them..

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: Cyberian

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
"60 KM/H IN A POSTED 50 KM/H ZONE"
"CARELESS DRIVING"

Stupidest parking tickets?

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[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: Imported

Originally posted by: DurocShark
I had (my wife drives it now) a 96 s-10 that's lowered, tonneau cover, tinted windows, etc. A year after I got it, I was driving in Irvine, CA on a Thurs eve after work and got pulled over for "vehicle inspection". Had to sit there for 30min while the cop with the vehicle height meter got there. It's a thing on a long stick that verifies the car/truck is over whatever the limit is (6" I think?)

The truck isn't that low, so no prob with the meter. Then the cops, pissed that I passed that test, started testing lights, door latches, seat belts, etc. No problems. Dorks had to let me go.

I got home and laughed for hours. I had two obvious issues they missed! I had expired tags (the new stickers were in the glovebox and I just hadn't put them on yet), and tinted front windows. Bwahahahahahahaha.

NOTE: I don't think all cops are a-holes. Most of 'em are pretty cool. But it always seems to be the a-holes who pull you over for bs reasons or hassle you. Guess that's what makes 'em a-holes. heh

Irvine cops suck. They have nothing better to do because they think no one is doing anything in their city.. I was followed for 5 blocks the other day going to Target.. Blah them..

Same here - they obviously use racial profiling here, in the rural midwest . . . cops follow me around for no good reason whatsoever (and I'm a clean-cut kid, to boot! :|)

 

[datalink7]

Originally posted by: Sundog
I have not gotten one, but a co-worker got a ticket for their car that was sitting in their own driveway. The damn car was on blocks so the 57 T-bird was not even going anywhere (the owner was doing some brake and tranny work). The ticket: expired tags.:|:|:|

He was working on restoring the car for several years and moved it into his drive way because it had gotten warm ouside. I can not believe that a city can have an ordinance that allows tickets for expired tags when the vehicle is on you own property and obviously not being driven.:|:|

Teh Winnar!

That really sucks.

 

[kag]

Originally posted by: Beast1284
My NY state police hat that sits in my back window has gotten me out of at least 2 tickets. The cop would see the hat on his way up to talk to me, and when they got to the window, "Sorry sir, have a good day, and keep that speed down."

Are you really a NY state police, or that's just something you're carrying around?



As for my story, well it actually happened to my father. He went to the hospital with a friend. They parked their two motorcycles in one parking spot. When they came back, they had a ticket so he went in the office to get an explanation. They told him because he was "double-parked", or whatever that's called in english. Then he told them he wasn't because the two bikes were only taking one parking place. They said that wasn't how it works, so he asked them to proove it. They looked through their rules book for like 15 minutes but couldn't find anything. He told them he wasn't going to pay for this unless they could proove him wrong. He left his pager number, cell phone number, fax number and home number... so he said he wasn't leaving as a thief. Anyway they never called him back, probably because they never found that in the book. All that for a ... huge $1.75 fine. HAHAHAHA.

My father is just like that sometimes.. he said even if it would have been 10 cents, he would have done the same thing - it's the principle that matters.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: kag

Originally posted by: Beast1284
My NY state police hat that sits in my back window has gotten me out of at least 2 tickets. The cop would see the hat on his way up to talk to me, and when they got to the window, "Sorry sir, have a good day, and keep that speed down."

Are you really a NY state police, or that's just something you're carrying around?



As for my story, well it actually happened to my father. He went to the hospital with a friend. They parked their two motorcycles in one parking spot. When they came back, they had a ticket so he went in the office to get an explanation. They told him because he was "double-parked", or whatever that's called in english. Then he told them he wasn't because the two bikes were only taking one parking place. They said that wasn't how it works, so he asked them to proove it. They looked through their rules book for like 15 minutes but couldn't find anything. He told them he wasn't going to pay for this unless they could proove him wrong. He left his pager number, cell phone number, fax number and home number... so he said he wasn't leaving as a thief. Anyway they never called him back, probably because they never found that in the book. All that for a ... huge $1.75 fine. HAHAHAHA.

My father is just like that sometimes.. he said even if it would have been 10 cents, he would have done the same thing - it's the principle that matters.

It is the principle that matters. Your father sounds like an alright guy to me.

 

[Keego]

Over the line in metered parking. $20!

 

[MrDingleDangle]

at least in Maryland they would call u asking for donations and u got those "i support the fraternal order of police"

i still have mine on from 2001 but LA parking people dont care about it

Positive Parking ticket story-

i have a NY Mets plate holder on my back plates and it covers up the top half of the word MARYLAND with the word NEW YORK (as in NEW YORK METS)...well the genious parking person wrote NY plates...that was like a $60 ticket i didnt have to pay...

it happened again when my g/f borrowed the car and they wrote NY again...but then noticed crossed it out and wrote MD

 

[kag]

Originally posted by: Jehovah
It is the principle that matters. Your father sounds like an alright guy to me.

Yeah he is. I know he was in his right. But only.. I would have donated 5$ to the childrens at the hospital or something instead of loosing 20 minutes arguing with those ppl

 

[damian185]

Got a parking ticket in the red zone for just stopping for 5 seconds to drop someone off...