Topic: RE: 10 year old parking ticket $130 bucks! Ouch!

[chewbacca5000]

So the other day the town of Solvay sends a letter saying they were going to suspend my license if I don't pay $130 for a 10 year old parking ticket.  I could hardly believe it.  How am I supposed to remember a ticket from 10 years ago when I can't even remember what I had for lunch last week.

I called them up, and the officer in charge said all I had to do was send $80.  Guess they were cleaning up old records or something.  Welcome to NY.

[70CB750]

you may be sure that your sin will find you out 

[Stev-o]

What about the Statue of Limitations? You should be Scott-free after seven years.

I have seven outstanding traffic tickets in Hawaii from over 20 years ago, the cop told me to go home and never come back!

[chewbacca5000]

What about the Statue of Limitations? You should be Scott-free after seven years.

I have seven outstanding traffic tickets in Hawaii from over 20 years ago, the cop told me to go home and never come back!

Man Steve-O what is that the 10th state you have been kicked out of?  ha,ha,ha 

[ekpent]

 You Scofflaws !! You guys give Honda bikers a bad name !!

[Steve F]

For most traffic tickets, there is no statute of limitations.  Some states will offer amnesty after a certain amount of time, some will turn the tickets over to a collection agency and they can affect your credit.  Read more here:
http://www.creditinfocenter.com/wordpress/2012/07/03/is-there-a-statute-of-limitations-on-parking-tickets/

[Stev-o]

You Scofflaws !! You guys give Honda bikers a bad name !!

I was on a Honda!  It was a rental...CB360...

[evanphi]

All I hear about NY is bad ticketing stories. You'd think they would just forget about it.

[Stev-o]

All I hear about NY is bad ticketing stories. You'd think they would just forget about it.

Are you kidding?  In their mind that is lost revenue!

[flybox1]

Is this like a bingo number ball machine on a traffic cops desk filled w current licenses? WTF?
"Lets see who we can pin a 10-year old ticket on today.  Ahhh....this poor sod named Chewy.  $130 sounds good, but I can make this all go away for only $80" 

I say make them prove it. 

Sorry Chewy5k 

[chewbacca5000]

Is this like a bingo number ball machine on a traffic cops desk filled w current licenses? WTF?
"Lets see who we can pin a 10-year old ticket on today.  Ahhh....this poor sod named Chewy.  $130 sounds good, but I can make this all go away for only $80" 

I say make them prove it. 

Sorry Chewy5k 

I was ready to do that, but didn't want to get pulled over with a suspended license.  With all those plate scanners and other tech they know the second you pull out of your driveway and are there to give you a ticket.

[ekpent]

 Tell em' how you really feel Chewy.

[flybox1]

Or this   

[evanphi]

I say make them prove it. 

Sorry Chewy5k 

Agreed. Show up to court to challenge it. The issuing office has to show and should have to show proof.

[ekpent]

 Maybe they will take some old Honda parts in trade--good way to get rid of that King and Queen seat 

[chewbacca5000]

Maybe they will take some old Honda parts in trade--good way to get rid of that King and Queen seat 

I would have gladly throw in some engine guards that no one wanted too.  O wait it make the scrap man happy so that is good.

[Bailgang]

A few years ago I got a letter from the West Virginia police claiming I hadn't stopped at a toll booth on a turnpike of theirs and that I owed X amount of dollars and the license plate number they had matched the plate on a 75 cb550 I had at the time. The letter gave an email address to contact them so I emailed them back saying they obviously must have a photo of my lawlessness and if so I'd sure like to see it because unless their turnpike somehow meandered it's way through the state of Indiana then I assured them that my bike had yet to cross the state line let alone all the way to West Virginia. They immediately dropped it.

[Retro Rocket]

Is this like a bingo number ball machine on a traffic cops desk filled w current licenses? WTF?
"Lets see who we can pin a 10-year old ticket on today.  Ahhh....this poor sod named Chewy.  $130 sounds good, but I can make this all go away for only $80" 

I say make them prove it. 

Sorry Chewy5k 

I received a letter a few years back saying my license would be suspended if i didn't pay a fine from 1982... I dropped into the local Police station and they just laughed, they said that they had no records going that far back so there was no proof the fine existed, I went to the local court house and spoke to the clerk, I also explained that the bike that I supposedly committed the traffic infringement on had been sold before that date and that I lived in another state at the time. After  months of back and forth rubbish and continuing to threaten me with loss of license, I convinced the clerk to take it back through the court with the information I had supplied, it was immediately thrown out of court and into the bin...

[dhall57]

What about the Statue of Limitations? You should be Scott-free after seven years.

I have seven outstanding traffic tickets in Hawaii from over 20 years ago, the cop told me to go home and never come back!

Who were the cops Steve McGarrett and Danno

[ekpent]

Bookem' Danno 

[Stev-o]

Bookem' Danno 

Def didnt get booked, he let me ride off on the Honda!

[Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er]

That's not bad interest after 10 years. Take em to court.

[brewsky]

A few years ago I got a letter from the West Virginia police claiming I hadn't stopped at a toll booth on a turnpike of theirs and that I owed X amount of dollars and the license plate number they had matched the plate on a 75 cb550 I had at the time. The letter gave an email address to contact them so I emailed them back saying they obviously must have a photo of my lawlessness and if so I'd sure like to see it because unless their turnpike somehow meandered it's way through the state of Indiana then I assured them that my bike had yet to cross the state line let alone all the way to West Virginia. They immediately dropped it.

Last year on the same road, I got caught in the E-Z Pass lane during heavy traffic and couldn't  get out.

I don't have an E-Z Pass....so, I pulled over after passing thru the toll booth, risked life and limb to walk up to a manned booth to explain and pay cash.

"Sorry, we can't take money after you pass thru"! $#%&^+#$!

Just waiting on my letter!

[70CB750]

Been there, done that. Twice.  Very easy to get stuck on E-Z Pass lane going from 66 to Beltway.   paid $2 for the use and $13 for admin fee or something like that.

[Buckskin Bandit]

Chewy, I think they should have to prove it as well.  It sounds like a shakedown to me... 

[chewbacca5000]

Chewy, I think they should have to prove it as well.  It sounds like a shakedown to me... 

+1

[flybox1]

Problem is, they choose a value so that its not worth the time you gotta spend on it all.

[Gene]

I got a notification of a traffic ticket from Italy a year and a half after we'd been there.  They had a pic and sure enough, that was our little rented Fiat Panda.  Anyway - to Chewy's dilemma - the Italians at least had a pic - and I knew damned well I'd gone the wrong way down that street, anyway - make 'em prove it.

Oh yeah, and I lost a 1962 Cadillac sedan DeVille to parking tickets when I was a misanthropic youngster . . . but that's another story.

10 Years on, they should have to prove their case.  And why did it take 10 years for this to crop up?

[74cb750]

I would fight the ticket for sure.

Several weeks after moving to Vermont, I was pulled over for having a non-working fog light. The officier wanted to give me a ticket for underage driving as Vermont DMV records said I was 8 years old, not old enough to drive.

They also had me in as being 18 years old and 28 years old, all with the same addy. Took a while for them to get it right.
michel

[chewbacca5000]

I would fight the ticket for sure.

Several weeks after moving to Vermont, I was pulled over for having a non-working fog light. The officier wanted to give me a ticket for underage driving as Vermont DMV records said I was 8 years old, not old enough to drive.

They also had me in as being 18 years old and 28 years old, all with the same addy. Took a while for them to get it right.
michel

You got to be kidding me!  8 year old are they blind?  How ridiculous is that.