"Tom Austin" <taustin> wrote in message news:46dd5439$1@news.povray.org...

> Many years ago I got a ticket for parking on the wrong side of the road - 
> against traffic.
> It was a residential road with very little traffic, but bumper-bumper 
> parking.  I saw a spot and parked it - there was no easy place to turn 
> around that I saw.
>
> 20 minutes I come back to find a ticket - but there was no fine marked so 
> I just ignored it.


    You get a box on the ticket where the warden can check it if there's a 
fine to pay or not 'in their opinion'? Man, I wish we had that. Ours are 
just 'pay first, or else'.


>
> 30 days later I got a 'double fine' ticket in the mail for failure to pay. 
> I argued that one and sent a copy showing no fine marked.
>
> They were actually very polite and sent a letter stating that even tho no 
> fine was marked I had still broken the law and owed the fine - but they 
> removed the penalty for not paying on time.

     Ok, fair enough I suppose... but were you aware that it was illegal to 
park backwards where you are? I *think* it would be illegal here in the UK 
if it was a one-way street. I.E., the actual offence would be 'driving down 
a one-way street the wrong way and then parking incorrectly'. I would never 
do this, but if I did, I think that's the terms they would use... Or some 
code that no-one has ever heard of...




>
> I think most of the time officers need to meet quotas or the municipality 
> actually budgets the fines into their fiscal system.

       Well, I learnt that our new system is now 'self financing' which to 
me means 'get as many as you can in a day/week and everything will be all 
right Jack, you'll keep your job'.


>
> I know MANY places that lower the speed limit by 10 mph for no reason at 
> all just to place a speed trap.
>
> Therefore you get screwed.
>
> Oh well... tis life.

     Yeah, it's life, but it ain't right.


>
> Sock it to em Steve!

 :o) Thanks Tom! Well, I sent one good glossy print of that other (gold) car 
and asked why it's illegal when there is actually no danger to pedestrians 
or other road users, or not blocking that particular drive-way. (BTW, If 
you've been wondering, I work there, that's our office (hence the window 
shot) for this area. I could have parked freely in the space that you see in 
the foreground, (behind the walls), but two cars were taking up *my* 
official spaces, and I was only going to be there a couple of minutes on 
that day, so I parked where I did, and that wouldn't be the first time I did 
that).

    I've held the second image (the one with the red car, and the red car 
opposite that Scott kindly beamed in on) back. I'm hoping for some mistake 
on their part with this, because that's all I've got.




     ~Steve~



> Tom
>

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