# Fuck You Mike **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 28, 2003, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-mike/198108 "2003-08-28T00:59:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-mike/198108/21 "2003-08-28T13:10:33Z")
Hi. May I ask what happens if you visit New York City, receive a parking ticket, and then just don’t pay it? I have a ticket that’s a few months old, and they’ve started sending me threatening mail, but I think they’re fulla shit. What are they going to do to me? I suppose I could get into trouble if I ever go back to New York City and get stopped (by The Man!) but otherwise, what evil could possibly befall me if I just don’t pay this thing? The threatening letter said of the citation “We will make this _public information_ and credit bureaus can use it at their discretion!” Personally, I’ve never heard of an unpaid parking ticket showing up on somebody’s credit report. Am I wrong? > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Apos \* > \*\*Looks like they targeted exactly the right person: a NJ driver who would be less likely to contest. Thank you for your money, proud New Jersian. We need it pretty desperately, you see. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-mike/198108/22 "2003-08-28T15:25:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lezlers \* > \*\*Damn the man! \*\* Save the Empire! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-mike/198108/23 "2003-08-28T15:47:24Z")
I say “Bring back Donald Manes”. Oh, right. He’s Dead. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-mike/198108/24 "2003-08-28T17:53:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > \*\*Uh … who’s Mike? \*\* Bloomberg, our billionaire mayor who could care less about us. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-mike/198108/25 "2003-08-28T22:55:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cuauhtemoc \* > **May I ask what happens if you visit New York City, receive a parking ticket, and then just don’t pay it? I have a ticket that’s a few months old, and they’ve started sending me threatening mail, but I think they’re fulla shit. What are they going to do to me?** The pansy-ass Iowa DOT revoked my license for not paying for a speeding ticket in Minnesota, eh. That’s a speeding ticket, though, rather than a parking one, and it was a state to state thing, rather than a city, and… where was I again? ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-mike/198108/26 "2003-08-28T23:02:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wikkit \* > \*\*The pansy-ass Iowa DOT revoked my license for not paying for a speeding ticket in Minnesota, eh. > > That’s a speeding ticket, though, rather than a parking one, and it was a state to state thing, rather than a city, and… where was I again? \*\* I’m sure there was someone named “mike” in the process you could apply the title of the to. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-mike/198108/27 "2003-08-28T23:06:28Z")
It’s eerie, but I knew this thread would be about Hizzoner before I even opened it. Maybe it was the New Yorkish title. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-mike/198108/28 "2003-08-28T23:50:30Z")
I got a $15 parking ticket in my aunt’s hometown for parking on a street with no signs whatsoever that said ‘No Parking’. This is a town of 300 people, and a street that sees maybe three cars a day. When I called the local yokel police department (which they share with another similarly sized town) and asked them why I had gotten a parking ticket, they told me that there is no street parking on that street. I asked if they had any signs to that effect, because I saw none and I was informed ‘Oh they rusted and we took them down, but it’s still a no parking zone.’ Nice racket they have going on. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-mike/198108/29 "2003-08-29T01:11:48Z")
The best part of the racket, catsix, is the hoops they can make you go through to contest the $15 ticket. I tried once to dispute a parking ticket at a nearby town, when I was **unemployed**. wasn’t worth my time [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-mike/198108.md?page=1)