[Healeys] Crazy crazy California - S. Carolina DMVs

[Chris Moog]

While I would agree, twice in the last 20 years I have had my license 
suspended for a parking ticket issued in Garden City Long Island (I live 
in NYS but not near LI).  In neither case had I been on Long Island 
during the year that the tickets were issued.  In both cases I had to 
write asking for the ticket.  In neither case did the description of the 
vehicle match mine (though the plate number did).  I each case, even 
though the DMV records (which the town had to look up to get my mailing 
address) showed a vehicle mis-match, I had to send copies of my 
registration showing my plate number and a different vehicle description 
and ask that the ticket be dismissed.  The whole time this mail-go-round 
was going on my drivers license was officially suspended.

Luckily at the time the police did not have the auto plate readers now 
in use, so I just had to drive carefully, not speed and avoid parking 
anywhere I might get a ticket.



On 2011-09-20 10:21 AM, Skip Saunders wrote:
> Sorry... I don't have much sympathy for the "victims" in this thread.   You
> receive a ticket; pay it or go to court and get it reversed.
>
> The "ticket blew off the windshield" or "ticket was taken by a bystander"
> arguments don't really hold much water with me either.   Those kinds of
> events are simply way way too rare to be honest portrayals of events.
> (Usually, the sight of a ticket promotes a response like..."Boy, wouldn't
> you like to see the person's face when they get back to the car and see the
> ticket!")