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?
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.’
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.
