Had to spend an hour tracking down what happened to my car. There are three car thieves towing companies working for Newark and two of them said they weren't towing because of the Veterans Day holiday. Finally found where they took it. Had to pay $135 to get my car back and they handed me a ticket. They covered my windows with some kind of crayon that took a razor blade to get off.
Later that day, when I looked at the ticket the chick at the towing company gave me I noticed it was backdated to the day before. It also had the wrong street and the wrong time. I even had a reciept from the towing company to prove it. Probably because the person writing the ticket wasn't supposed to be doing it on the Veteran's Day holiday when the Street Cleaner's weren't running.
I was considering going and fighting the ticket. If they weren't supposed to be giving them that day they probably would have just said the sign didn't say that. If I went along the line that on the date they put on the ticket it would be perfectly legal to park my car where it was, they would have just said my car was on the other side of the street. It kinda stinks because I don't think my word should be any less valuable then theirs. After all, it's the police in Newark who sell drugs and the city who has to have the federal government monitor their elections. You would think that anything a cop in Newark says would be suspect. I'm not even sure the cops write those tickets in Newark. I got the impression the towing company does that too. Anyway, I missed the date to send it in by.
Later that day, when I looked at the ticket the chick at the towing company gave me I noticed it was backdated to the day before. It also had the wrong street and the wrong time. I even had a reciept from the towing company to prove it. Probably because the person writing the ticket wasn't supposed to be doing it on the Veteran's Day holiday when the Street Cleaner's weren't running.
There's this site Parkingticket.com that will fight your ticket for free. They get half if they win. It's actually a legit service. Apparently if you actually fight a ticket you have a 75% chance of dismissal.
You work so hard just to make it until the end of the month. Something like this just kills you. I don't think you'd find a sane person who thinks $175 is fair for a street cleaning ticket. If the city of Newark needs money they should use the tax system, not this method of random muggings.
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Did I ever tell you about the ticket I got for my car being too dirty? Yup, it's true.
How did that happen. Is that on the books?
They ticketed me as an abandoned car. That was actually the school. I appealed and lost and had to pay it in order to get my transcript released to the bar examiners. And that is why I will never ever give one red penny to that god awful school, no matter how many annoying fundraising lettes they send me. Not that I have a cent to spare, of course, but that's not the point.
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