What the hell is wrong with NYC?

[EKKC]

OK I got a Parking Ticket back in January of this year. It was no Standing at Bus Stop when I was moving into my apartment and the stupid cop gave me ticket anyway, but he didnt give it to me by hand when I went back to plead with him, instead, he left it on my windshield even when I entered my car. It was for $115

I used parkingticket.com and paid them half the money, and they helped me write me a letter to attempt to have it dismissed, the major one being that the cop did not properly serve me my ticket because I was present.

long story short, i sent in their letter, totally forgot about this. today i got a letter from the mail saying Im eligible to pay the reduced amount of 90 dollars, or else it will be reviewed by a judge and if I am not guilty i would still have to pay the full amount owed... $125... :Q when did I get another 10 bucks you bitches?

wait 7 months just to get a letter back saying it will be reviewed? how incompetent and ineffective are our elected officials and our so called government?

cliffs:
1) Got ticket for $115 on Jan 2005
2) Paid half to parkingticket.com to fight, sent letter back
3) 7 months passed by, i forgot about this whole thing
4) today received letter on mail saying i can pay a reduced amount
5) want the lazy fat bitches sitting in local government offices to die and stop wasting my tax money

 

[isekii]

you probably have to pay court costs and such as well.
expect to pay something like in the 160's range

 

[EKKC]

if parkingticket.com really go with their guarantee, i dont have to pay anything anymore besides giving them half the amount initially when they wrote me the letter. normally i write my own letters, but this time i was in the wrong (it was a quiet street, but it was a bus stop) and i wanted to see if they can really beat my ticket for me

anyone had experience with them?

 

[Hacp]

Originally posted by: isekii
you probably have to pay court costs and such as well.
expect to pay something like in the 160's range

Court costs? they do this in a little room about 10x20 with a computer. The judge is a man with a suit and tie. He probably makes 50k a year. No court costs. You just pay ticket. Personally, I would pay the 90 bucks if you are in violation. I've been given tickets before and fought them. I lost every one.

 

[EKKC]

i've had better luck

i've beaten a ticket for running a red light (i was 20 back then I have no idea how i did that... the 'judge' took my word over the cop's who was present and the judge said he made a judgmental error ROFL), and about 3 parking tickets, 2 of them by finding errors on the summons itself

this one i see i cannot beat it, that's why i dumped it to parkingticket.com

 

[LuNoTiCK]

Explain the situation, maybe you'll get a nice judge who will let you go.

 

[EKKC]

its a parking ticket, its all done through letters.

 

[LuNoTiCK]

Originally posted by: EKKC
its a parking ticket, its all done through letters.

Go to the court whenever you want. Tell them not guilty. They'll send you in front of a little judge in a little room.

 

[Hacp]

Takes like 5 hours on a bad day though. So much people appeal...