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[learnedax]

Last week I got a parking ticket (for $40, which seems unusually high for the area to me, but maybe Somerville is just generally more severe that way) on some friends' street, where no one ever gets ticketed, and where there aren't any obvious signs declaring the legality of parking there. Annoying, but oh well. I went to pay it online last night, and noticed a) the ticket number didn't seem to exist in their system, but more importantly b) the registration on the ticket isn't mine. Shares no characters in common with mine, in fact. It's still for a Saturn, color "GY"*, and there did not seem to be any other Saturns nearby... but it's not issued for my car.

So should I pay it?


*Which komos believes means "GreenY" (it's a sort of metallic wintergreen) and I believe means "GaY".

Comments

[mesatchornug.livejournal.com]

nope. you're not responsible. sounds like someone else stuck it on your car, hoping you wouldn't notice that it's not your ticket, and you'd pay it.

contest it on the grounds that it's not your car. or just do nothing. then whoever owns the registration it's against will get a reminder, with late penalties...

is the ticket actually for the address/area you were parked in?

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was for the street I was on, during the time I was there.