4 cam tbird
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I had mentioned this ticket I got in a thread about Woodward from last weekend. I'm not just laying over and paying it mostly out of principle and this has resulted in kind of an interesting discovery. The officer that wrote the ticket still hasn't put it in the system, ticket was issued on Friday. I posted on Facebook about the situation and someone suggested a lawsuit for harassment as a form of standing up to prevent this sort of harassment from happening. Basically, I'm making this post to get people's thoughts on this sort of thing.
Here's the whole situation for those that care to read. The above was mostly a summary for the TL;DR crowd.
Friday night I go out to Woodward. The parking in front of the Potbelly's/Caribou building was full. I parked in front of The Vitamin Shoppe, which is in the same connected parking area and went and got a sandwich at Potbelly's. I came back to find a parking ticket for "Private property without permission." The Vitamin Shoppe does not have a sign stating that this was parking for The Vitamin Shoppe customers only. In fact, the officer even gave The Vitamin Shoppe employee that was cleaning up after closing a ticket for the same thing and he had to come out and argue about it. They were also ticketing cars at the credit union between The Vitamin Shoppe and Caribou.
Monday afternoon I went to the RO court house because the ticket says on the back "YOUR VIOLATION MUST BE SETTLED AT THE 44TH DISTRICT COURT" and also says that the fine increases after 72 hours so I had to do something Monday to be within 72 hours of Friday night. I was told then that the ticket was not entered in the system and that I should just call the number on the ticket. They also said the 72 hours doesn't start until the ticket is in the system.
I called again this morning to cover 72 hours from Monday and was again told the ticket was not int he system and to call back tomorrow or Friday.
Are they just hoping everyone that got a ticket will pay it, they'll generate that money and not have to actually enter the tickets in the system, supporting that this is really just 100% harassment?
From the law suit stand point, I don't see there being any money to be made, and I don't have any money to throw at a lawyer. So unless a lawyer was looking to take on the cause or there were enough people willing to throw money at a kickstarter or something I don't have any way to make that happen. Is there a point? Would it help? Would it hurt? Thoughts?
Here's the whole situation for those that care to read. The above was mostly a summary for the TL;DR crowd.
Friday night I go out to Woodward. The parking in front of the Potbelly's/Caribou building was full. I parked in front of The Vitamin Shoppe, which is in the same connected parking area and went and got a sandwich at Potbelly's. I came back to find a parking ticket for "Private property without permission." The Vitamin Shoppe does not have a sign stating that this was parking for The Vitamin Shoppe customers only. In fact, the officer even gave The Vitamin Shoppe employee that was cleaning up after closing a ticket for the same thing and he had to come out and argue about it. They were also ticketing cars at the credit union between The Vitamin Shoppe and Caribou.
Monday afternoon I went to the RO court house because the ticket says on the back "YOUR VIOLATION MUST BE SETTLED AT THE 44TH DISTRICT COURT" and also says that the fine increases after 72 hours so I had to do something Monday to be within 72 hours of Friday night. I was told then that the ticket was not entered in the system and that I should just call the number on the ticket. They also said the 72 hours doesn't start until the ticket is in the system.
I called again this morning to cover 72 hours from Monday and was again told the ticket was not int he system and to call back tomorrow or Friday.
Are they just hoping everyone that got a ticket will pay it, they'll generate that money and not have to actually enter the tickets in the system, supporting that this is really just 100% harassment?
From the law suit stand point, I don't see there being any money to be made, and I don't have any money to throw at a lawyer. So unless a lawyer was looking to take on the cause or there were enough people willing to throw money at a kickstarter or something I don't have any way to make that happen. Is there a point? Would it help? Would it hurt? Thoughts?
