Posted on 09/22/2014 1:27:57 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Two San Francisco residents, one of whom is disabled, are furious with what they see as an unjust parking ticket, and they have taken their complaint to federal court.
The lawsuit -- which was served Sept. 12 to The City, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and one of its citation review officers, and the Police Department, its chief and the officer who issued the citation -- claims the Feb. 16 parking ticket was unlawful.
Although the fine has been greatly reduced, the plaintiffs have decided to press on with their complaint.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfexaminer.com ...
Took some politician’s favorite parking place did they?
Silly Citizens. Don’t they know the Police Department and Laws are only for the purposes of extracting more cash from citizens attempting to legally go about their day?
SF war on disabled!
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
I know where to go and where where not to go.
I know when to go and when not to go.
True story.
When the movie SON OF GOD came out I went to see it, TWICE. I parked not terribly far away and I THOUGHT I had read all the signs.
Well, the second time I saw the movie I COULD NOT BEAR to watch the Crucifixion again, so I left.
When I got to my car there was a tow truck there READY to put on the chains. YIKES. I told them: I'm here!!!
So the chains went back into the tow truck.
The parking ticket was $100.00. It was on a main thoroughfare and it was almost 5:00 P.M.
To retrieve my car from the AutoPokey I would have had to pay another $500.00.
The good Lord punished me with the $100.00 ticket but saved me from the $500.00 tow.
So much for THINKING that I had read all the signs. I must have read what I wanted to.
The do the same thing in the liberal sewerhole of the East coast New York city. A friend of mine quit the NYPD because he couldn’t stand it anymore, he said the cops are nothing but collection agents for the city and if they lost traffic tickets in court, meaning if the driver got the ticket dismissed the cop would lose a vacation day. They had one cop that was going so crazy with the quota he started writing tickets to dead people. They got the cops out 2am walking up and down the streets looks at the registration stickers on parked cars. The bottom line is it’s just another byproduct of the liberal agenda, the city is spending massive amounts of money: They allow massive welfare fraud, millions of illegals to siphon off social services and who gets the shaft? The cops and the citizen. And incredibly the blatant commie punk that the morons in this city elected as Mayor just signed a bill to pay even MORE money toward illegals ha ha!
I hope the plaintiffs win big time. Normally I feel bad knowing that the taxpayers will end up paying for the lawsuit. But this is San Francisco. I feel no such conflict in this case since most San Franciscans are libs.
They try to wear you down, hoping you give up, pay, and go on your way. Quite a racket. Once I parked at my mother-in-laws house in San Francisco, was there but 15 minutes and the neighbor came over and told me a meter maid ticketed my car for parking beyond 4 hours. You bet I fought it, taking signed statements from neighbors to a hearing before a judge and the ticket was tossed out. Overzealous ticketers falsely write up tickets knowing it's an ordeal for the average person to take the time to fight it in court. Ticket writers in SF are scum.
(Unless you parked where B. Hussein O's presidential limo was about to pass, that is.)
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Good! Sue local governments! Cut down on the money and time available for making nothing but trouble. Shut ‘em down. Close the regulatory offices.
That may be true but there are conservatives living in SF. My wife's family members among them. Libs infested our city from elsewhere, a lot from the east coast. Used to be a republican city for most of the 20th century until the 60s. And Willy Brown was from Texas, first as mayor then governor he turned California liberal. So please have pity on those of us who aren't libs.
I meant Assembly Speaker, not governor. Willy Brown wreaked havoc as Assembly Speaker, blocking state legislation in favor of libs.
I haven't. It's been 15 years and I haven't been near the place. They write punitive laws, they lose the business.
It does not appear that the plaintiffs went through the full protest process, SFMTA spokesman Paul Rose said. They stopped at the administrative review stage, he said, while other options include an administrative hearing and going before the Superior Court.
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People who have to park ANYWHERE in the City KNOW what that involves and they KNOW that the bureaucracy is stupid. I can't think of too many bureaucracies that aren't bloated with uncaring, bored civil servants.
The city has only 750,000 residents but there are one million+ people in the City during the day: out-of-town workers (We have a zillion banks.) and tourists.
We ALL know these things and we deal with them. They know better. They received similar violations in the past and they know what the City is after.
FWIW: Disabled plaques have been SO misused and abused, I don't blame the City for tromping hard on them. I got one for six months when I had my hip replaced. I really did need it and it was a blessing for those gimpy months.
They really out to GET OUT OF DODGE and move to a smaller town where parking isn't such a headache.
You couldn’t pay me to live in Californistan.
Years ago in NYC, my wife and I were taking in a show in the theater district. We were touristas, so we had a car. We parked VERY carefully, after reading all the signs. We got out, and walked down the block. A Good Samaritan -- yes, they do exist, even in NYC -- stopped us and said we'd be towed. He pointed to the far end of the block, to our rear, where a couple of tow trucks were hooking up cars, with a couple more tow trucks waiting to descend. And as soon as a car was towed, another motorist, who had been carefully reading the signs, slid into the spot.
I no longer remember how the scam worked, but the signage was deliberately misleading. Must've been a real profit center for the city.
That STINKS.
Took some politician’s favorite parking place did they?”
If you try to find a handicapped parking place next to any of the city or federal buildings in downtown Houston, you can save your time. That’s where all the employees park with bogus handicap permits.
When someone is truly handicapped the least Texas could do is to require that they spend money on a permanent license plate instead of one of those plastic window tags which are almost as easy to get as a bogus work permit is for an illegal.
Years ago my car got “booted” for an alleged parking infraction. I called the number on the device to find out what sort of extortion they wanted. It was $100 which was a huge sum in those days. I called my brother who came out and torched off the boot.
I then called the tow outfit and demanded $150 to return their boot.
;’)
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