-Strelnikoff
Takes me back to the days when a group of lads on my street invested in a noisey 125 CC dirt bike, which they ran for hours on end up and down my formerly quiet street.
One nice morning, after a month of this, the lads rolled the dirt bike out for a kick start, only to find it vandalized--every cable had been neatly clipped with side cutters and removed--the MASKED AVENGER had struck !
We never knew who the masked man was. But we were glad he stepped forward and put a stop to such arrogance, once and or all. With a little luck, maybe he'll make an appearance in Boulder.
OK........I guess I'm OK since my hair was long and I had a goatee when my license pic was taken, now I'm clean-shaven with short hair. Ha!
The attorney's office does not keep statistics on complaints, but only a handful of them, like Philbrick's, involve a ticket sent to the wrong car owner, she said.
Don't keep statistics? Wouldn't want anyone to really know how bad you piss people off, now would you? Might lose that cushy government job.
If that is the case then exactly how do you know that 'only a handful' of tickets involve this type of complaint. Don't you just love liberal (il)logic?
I didn't get the ticket until one month later. Try to remember where you were and what you were doing a month ago. They did not send any picture with it, just an explanation of where to view the picture. "Between the hours of 10:00 am and 4:00 pm Mondays-Fridays. If you feel you should not have received the ticket after viewing the picture, you have to make an appointment with the City attorney or take it to court. Well that was two days off work to find out if I owed the money or not. They did give a location "in the 200 block of College avenue".
I went by the location and realized that just in front of the van the speed limit increases 10 miles per hour. I had always been taught that you begin increasing or decreasing your speed when you see the sign, so that when you pass the sign you are at the correct speed. A point some little camera in an unmarked van doesn't take into consideration.
At any rate, because of my business schedule, I didn't have time to persue it before leaving town. I had not made up my mind whether or not to take the two days off to fight the ticket. When I got back a second notice was waiting for me. This time it stated that if I didn't pay it I would be issued a summons to appear at court. I was again leaving town for business and decided to wait until I got back. I decided that I should at least have been given as much time as they took to first send the ticket.
When I was called out of town again, I thought "screw it", I just pay the 40 dollars and be done with it. Next time (if there is a next time) I will fight the darn thing.
When I got back to town, a letter was waiting for me. Inside was my check, and a letter stating that they did not have the authority to summon me because I did not live inside the city limits and their officers couldn't issue summons outside of the city limits. Therefore, since I had not paid the ticket within the 45 days, they could not pursue it.
In other words, this is a revenue generating thing for the cities that use it. After all, if they were really interested in the safety of the citizens they wouldn't wait 30 days to stop someone from speeding or running a red light.