Parking tickets. Awesome.
 

Two parking tickets in one month for no front plates. I love Southern California. :rolleyes:

Hello, Stillen bracket.

Yea I slept over at this girl's highrise loft in the loop of downtown Chicago last night. Meter parking starts at 8, I woke up at 8:35, got dressed n headed down to my Z parked right outside to find not one, but TWO tickets on the windshield of my Z. Both written at 8:22am, one for overdue meter, one for no front plate... $50 each. :(

wow, tickets for that!?
sorry to hear bout it.

States lost income tax rev. So now they are going after more money in fines and fees.

$50 was that fine only or did you pay more with fees?

Parking tickets: So cops can bust your balls even when you aren't driving

Illegal is illegal. If it's on a public street it must meet all legal requirements.

That sucks, I have my front plate on just because I didn't want to get hassled all the time, figured I'd try and keep it somewhat legal just for once

i'm not talking about front plates as much as like, meter running out etc. I understand the logic behind enforcing metered parking, but at the same time i come to a question. I'm pretty sure anyone who has a job that causes other people problems, has some way of rationalizing it. Whether it be a repo guy (who is taking cars from people who HAVENT paid for them or whoever) What i don't understand is how a police officer really feels like they are protecting and serving by standing there waiting for your meter to run out, so that when you get there 3 minutes later, you have to pay a parking ticket. I understand giving parking tickets if the meter is way over etc, but come on, i've seen them wait there for it. I also understand writing tickets when someone is illegally parked in front of a hydrant or a fire zone etc, but not for waiting for a meter to expire so they can get some money for their municipality.

Just playing devils advocate. The metermaid has a job to do and kids to feed too. They don't get paid per ticket or have a quota (that they'll admit to), but I'm sure the total number of tickets in a year goes to performance evaluations and those go to promotions which leads to more money for the kids. And maybe a job that isn't reffered to as metermaid.

"POLITICIAN: A PERSON WHO CAN FIND 1,000 COMPLICATIONS TO A SOLUTION." Cops only do what politicians tell them to. Blame it on the right kind!

So...if you're from out of state, then they can't write a ticket for no front plate, right?

Nope they can write you a ticket, they coulda also wrote me a ticket because I dont have a chicago city sticker (since I live in the south burbs)

And in chicago its not the po po that writes the ticket, its a paid and hired meter maid. I understand like if the streets are packed, and some *** is taking up a spot you coulda had and isnt even paying for it, but that early in the morning there was plenty of empty space on the streets still. That and if your gunna hit someone with a $50 fine, ok, but to ruin their day by giving them TWO $50, thats what pissed me off.

Oh yea and I forgot to mention, when I was opening my passenger side door to put my bag in the car, I chipped the edge of the door on the sidewalk :( I guess someone was punishing me for my sexcapades :(

I leave my front plate in the right hand corner of the windshield.

In Texas law is displayed to the front and rear of the car. I've as a constible about the windshield and he said he considers that to be displayed up not front. So he would give that a ticket.

Yea metermaids are what i'm talking about. I understand you are just playing devils advocate, so we can humor one another. I don't think having kids to feed can necessarily rationalize doing a job. Smuggling drugs? Being a Hit-Man? STEALING CARS? I see your point i just think that all they really do is create revenue for the state and piss off people.

That is 50/50, I have had cops say windshield fulfills the "front of the vehicle" law in Texas and others say they would ticket you.

How can they write you a ticket if you are out of state?
In south carolina we don't have front licence plates at all.
How could they give me a ticket?

That's your defense in court. Then comes the question of are you breaking the law that requires you to register your car if you live there for more than a limited period of time.

that is just bs thing...

i dont wear front liscense plate at the moment, or someday ill grab stillen bracket :)

Because your wouldnt be in south carolina anymore. Like if you came over to my house, and I had a rule that you have to take your shoes off when you come inside, but you wear your shoes in your house, that doesnt matter because your in my house not yours.

No one will pull you over for not having a front license plate when your current state you have the car registered in does not require it. I drove my car for years in Wisconsin (that requires front plates) with my Michigan plates (MI does not require front plates).

As of right now, I don't see me putting on my front plate. Cops around here don't care as long as you are not driving like an idiot.

Get the Stillen front plate frame, that is what I did.

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l2...0/102_0128.jpg




BTW, I hate front license plates.

On a somewhat related note...I'm currently sitting here, doing my online traffic school for my 891 f*cking dollar carpool lane violation ticket I got last month. SUPER AWESOME!!!!

That $UCKS!!!


$891????? That must be more than a HOV violation. I got a HOV violation a few yrs ago and it was like $150. :confused:

same here..2 parking tickets in May..Socal sucks.

Nope, just an HOV violation. LOOOOOONG story. Biggest...douche....cop....ever.

Lets here the story, because $891 is hard to believe for HOV violation! :stirthepot:

I'll try to keep it short. Basically, I was running late to work. I hopped in the carpool lane to jump ahead of a few cars, then got back into the normal lanes. A few miles later, I did it again. A cop pulled me over, of course. Here's the thing...I'm a cop myself. Not a lame-@ss traffic cop, though. Anyway, I showed the officer my badge and credentials, and explained my situation. It was rush hour, I had a last minute schedule change...it wasn't like I was joy-riding on a Sat afternoon by myself in the HOV lane. He didn't want to hear any of it. He came back with a citation for TWO HOV violations!!! Whatever. I signed the ticket and told him how he was doing God's work by pulling over fellow LE officers for HOV violations. Here's the good part...he started yelling at me and SLAPPED THE ROOF OF MY CAR!!! So, I get out of my car and it becomes a screaming match on the side of the 405N, in Long Beach. TOTALLY unprofessional. Seriously??? HITTING MY CAR??? I guess he realized his dash cam was on (or possibly what a douche he was being) because he just gets back in his car and takes off. WTF??? A couple weeks later when I had time off, I went to the station to talk to either him, or his supervisor. Naturally, he wasn't available so I spoke to his boss. His boss, very politely, told me to go f*ck myself. The best part of that conversation was how his supervisor told me about how often HE flew solo in the HOV lane. HUH??? Anyway, I paid the citation and I'm currently enjoying my 8 hrs of online traffic school. At least traffic school helped my knock the fine down to $560....which was going to be spent on a spoiler. :shakes head:

What a pair of douches! Painful to read that story, man. Only thing I can guess is that traffic cop was having a pretty bad day, Possibly worse than the day you were having.

awww so you are mad your cop friend didn't let you break the law and get away with it... :rolleyes:

Amazing, never heard of cops dissing another like that :shakes head:

I don't care for traffic cops, but I would let a fellow officer go. Unless he was drunk of course

Breaking the law by getting into the HOV lane was a necessary risk that morning. I'm not upset that I got a ticket. I'm not above the law just because I'm Federal LE myself. I'm upset by how unprofessional the officer was. That being said, 99% of your average local traffic officers wouldn't have cited me that day, based on the circumstances.

:icon18::roflpuke2::roflpuke2:haha:roflpuke2::rofl puke2::happydance::ughdance: Makes me happy just like every time I hear of cops getting busted you guys are just as crooked as the next guy! The majority of cops are douche bags, you are all on a power trip thinking you are above the law! Better yet you think you are the law!


I think the Fed should have turn it into a :barf: match on each other :rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:

You know me so well. Again, I'm not upset about getting a ticket. As I stated, I broke the law and I paid the consequences. It was the officer's behavior that was unacceptable. I was in my personal vehicle, responding to an unscheduled emergency. I don't have lights and sirens on the Z so it's a little difficult to go code 3. Thank you for your thought provoking insight, though.

Never say such things, Sexcapades are always WIN! :tup:

There is no need for insults like that!!!

Not all cops are crooked, I bet you don't say that when you need one. ;)

BTW, I not a cop, ok!

I don't want to call shenanigans, but AZ (which does not require a front plate) is right next to Cally. As you can imagine, many AZ people go to Cally for the weekend, and I've never heard of ANYONE getting a ticket for not displaying a front plate.