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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

[eclecticmagpie.livejournal.com]

You've gotten enough advice about the ticket in question. As for the posting, not all parking laws are posted on the street. In particular, nighttime winter parking bans and overall parking limits are both posted at the borders of towns, or at least some of them -- so, for example, driving into Boston, you *may* notice a sign at the exit from the highway saying that there is a 2 hour maximum parking limit, which means that EVEN if you feed the meter, a cop can and will give you a ticket if you are parked somewhere more than 2 hours. Even though it's not posted on the street in question.

I am sure there are other "hidden" rules and regs, some of which you are just expected to know in order to have a license, and some of which are posted in obscure places. Winter bans, for example, you are apparently supposed to look up when you move to town.