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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

[dervishspin.livejournal.com]

No.
It sounds like someone left it on your car as a way of getting out of paying it, or someone causing mayhem picked up a ticket off of someone else's car and left on yours as a joke. Call the registry and figure out if there is something you can do to pass the ticket on to it's rightful owners.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Maybe... the fact that it was for my make and (I think) color car makes it seem like a lot of work to go to for just sticking a ticket someplace. I'm wondering whether the officer wrote down the plate number of the guy next to me, who's now going to get angry notices from the city.

[buddhagrrl.livejournal.com]

considering that it could have been the officer's screw-up, I would write a letter, point out that it's not your car's plate # and you suspect a transcription error, so whoever the ticked actually belongs to should have their late fee waived, but also that there is no signage indicating parking is not allowed.

In the past when I had a questionable ticket that DID have my correct car info on it, I sent in a payment along with a letter explaining why I thought they should reimburse me but that I didn't want to delay my payment waiting for a reply and risk a late fee, and they did in fact send me a check for 30 bucks and a brief note saying the ticked was cancelled.