The correct way to write a check for a stupid parking ticket

[agnitrate]

$8 isn't bad at all, ours are $20.

-silver

 

[waggy]

a $8 ticket aint nothing! just pay it and don't do whatever you did to get the first one.

 

[FuZoR]

$8...

looks at $105 double parking ticket... hmm

 

[ZeroEffect]

i remember watching something on 60 Minutes where they passed checks
through banks signed Mickey Mouse... all kinds of funny stuff. They were
showing the canceled checks to Mr. Bank Man and saying, how could this
have been accepted? I don't think they look at half the stuff written on
a check.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: loki8481
you're complaining about an $8.00 ticket? on average, I probably rack up $50/week in parking tickets

learn how to park

i have gottel like 40$ in parking tickets sence i began driving like 6 years ago

 

[cressida]

They let us pay online for parking tickets

 

[Saulbadguy]

I heard a rumor that if you get a speeding ticket, write a check for 1 dollar over the amount, that way the ticket will never "close" in the system, so they will keep sending you a refund check until you cash it.

Most likely not true, but fun to think of.

 

[JDub02]

I had over $200 in parking tickets in one week ... I forgot to move my vehicle out of teacher parking one Sunday afternoon and came back the following Saturday to lots of tickets. Not fun.

I'm glad college is over.

 

[JDub02]

Originally posted by: Saulbadguy
I heard a rumor that if you get a speeding ticket, write a check for 1 dollar over the amount, that way the ticket will never "close" in the system, so they will keep sending you a refund check until you cash it.

Most likely not true, but fun to think of.

I don't think it's true.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: loki8481
you're complaining about an $8.00 ticket? on average, I probably rack up $50/week in parking tickets

learn how to park

i have gottel like 40$ in parking tickets sence i began driving like 6 years ago

nothing to do with not knowing how to park. they're all for unpaid meters. the meters in front of my office building don't go into effect until 9 am. unfortunately, I'm the only one in my office between 8 am and 9 am, so I can't run out and put money in the meter (if anyone found out that I left the office unattended, even for a minute or two, that's an instant pink slip)... if the guys who relieve me in the morning are running late and if the meter maid is out there promptly at 9 am to give tickets to us 3rd shifters, I'm stuck with a $25 ticket.

but if I were to park in a lot, I'd be paying $75/week (or $15/day), so as long as I average less than $75/week in parking tickets, I still save money.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: waggy
a $8 ticket aint nothing! just pay it and don't do whatever you did to get the first one.

There are about 20 metered parking spots in this particular lot. They gave a ticket to EVERY SINGLE PERSON parked there for one reason or another. For me, it was because I parked on the line. The fact that I had no choice as all the other cars were parked at an angle didn't seem to matter.

 

[WannaFly]

ehehe I'm in charge of re-writing my university's parking ticket system application, parking tickets pay my salary.

lucky its only $8 the lowest here is $20

 

[petery83]

Our parking tickets here at UC Irvine are $27...The last one I got in Newport Beach was $42

 

[Saulbadguy]

Here is what to do with the check..ala Mallrats.

Put the check in your pants and keep it there all day. As long as you don't sweat too much, the ink shouldn't run...but that smell will never get off that check. Then mail it.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Kenazo

Originally posted by: Adul
paying it in pennies is more fun

In Canada you aren't obligated to take more than I think it was $1 in pennies, or maybe it was $0.50. Beyond that, the vendor can legally refuse the payment.

You can't here in the states. If it's legal tender, and you accept cash of any kind, you have to accept ALL forms of cash payment.

 

[Ness]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: MogulMonster

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: bunker
Check will probably be denied payment by the bank because of the 'damn' in the amount field. School more than likely will charge you a $15 fee for a bad check.

Congrats, you almost tripled your ticket

I was told by the bank that the written out postion of the ammount is optional. As what I wrote doesn't confuse the ammount, I don't see how it could be rejected.

That was total BS, because the written amount is the legal field. Most banks will only take it if the written and the number amount match.

Correct. The written amount is one of the nine required fields for a valid check.

Yup yup, if you put "one dollar and 00/100" in the written amount, and "1,000,000,000,000,000" in the number field, then LEGALLY (read "ideally"), it can only be cashed for one dollar. Now, because a lot of tellers are lazy, if you write an incorrect amount in the number field, they will most likely go by that.

 

[Ness]

Originally posted by: Saulbadguy
I heard a rumor that if you get a speeding ticket, write a check for 1 dollar over the amount, that way the ticket will never "close" in the system, so they will keep sending you a refund check until you cash it.

Most likely not true, but fun to think of.

They will (and do) consider the extra a donation. Enough said.


edit: What the hell is the purpose of writing out a ticket for a measely $8 anyway?

What was it for?

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: Kenazo

Originally posted by: Adul
paying it in pennies is more fun

In Canada you aren't obligated to take more than I think it was $1 in pennies, or maybe it was $0.50. Beyond that, the vendor can legally refuse the payment.

You can't here in the states. If it's legal tender, and you accept cash of any kind, you have to accept ALL forms of cash payment.

No, there are limits in the United States as well.

edit: I may be mistaken... from Straight Dope:

Unfortunately, that's about as far as we can go in the way of definitive statements on this subject. Legal tender happens to be one of the curious anomalies of U.S. law.

At one time there were definite limits to how much small change you could legally unload on the people you owed money to--25 cents in the case of "minor coins" (the penny and the nickel) and $10 for "silver coins" (the dime, quarter, and half-dollar).

In 1933, however, in the course of getting the U.S. off the gold standard, Congress offhandedly declared that all U.S. coins and currency were legal tender for all debts, period. That would appear to repeal the earlier limits.

There is evidence to suggest that this was accidental, though, and the contradictory statutes have been permitted to remain on the books, perhaps in the hope that someone would bring them to a court test. No one, as far as I can tell, ever has.

Matters were further complicated when the U.S. ceased to make silver coins, having chosen to use cupronickel-clad copper instead.

The $10 limit, on the face of it, applies (or applied, anyway) only to silver coins. It is at least arguable that while you might not be able to force your ex-wife to accept more than $10 in pre-1965 (i.e., silver) quarters, you could pay her off with unlimited amounts of post-1965 coins.

 

[Toasthead]

Originally posted by: SWScorch
that's very mature.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: Kenazo

Originally posted by: Adul
paying it in pennies is more fun

In Canada you aren't obligated to take more than I think it was $1 in pennies, or maybe it was $0.50. Beyond that, the vendor can legally refuse the payment.

You can't here in the states. If it's legal tender, and you accept cash of any kind, you have to accept ALL forms of cash payment.

http://www.treas.gov/education/faq/currency/legal-tender.html

 

[bmacd]

Originally posted by: mflacy
That's some unoriginal crap. Put some thought into it if you are going to be vulgar.

Perhaps "The best $8.00 BJ I've ever had! Thanks Parking Attendant Smith"

LOL!!!! Awesome!

-=bmacd=-

 

[Platypus]

8 bucks? Too bad the minimum here is like 20 dollars.