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Posted by Miriam on 2007-11-01 12:13:42 +0000

Maybe you should've changed it over the weekend. Can't fault the city for following their own rules.

Posted by MF DU on 2007-11-03 00:42:55 +0000

Im siding with Glib on this one. Why is the sticker a monthly change? That many people with cars are non residents trying to get free parking? Totally bad karma - it's a paycheck I spose, but so is wearing a blue uniform hiding behind a billboard waiting for someone to go 6 miles an hour over the speeding limit while innocent people are out getting battered and killed.

Posted by ConorClockwise on 2007-11-03 13:12:43 +0000

If I'm reading this right, it's not a monthly change. It's yearly, and GLib's was due to for renewal from Nov of '06.

Posted by G lib on 2007-11-05 11:25:23 +0000

CC is right. And Chippy had paid it, the sticker was sitting on our kitchen table, not 20 feet from the car. I am not against rules, I'm not against regulations, I'm not even against stupid rules and regulations if it helps us all get along better, and make this a nicer place to live. However, I don't see Rita ticketing for street cleaning every Tuesday, and in Eastie we have a bad street trash problem. I don't see Rita ticketing for people double-parked blocking the street, which killed someone in Southie a few years ago. I don't see Rita ticketing the assholes that park illegally in the handicapped spots all over town. In fact, I've never seen Rita AT ALL in the 2 1/2 years I've lived in Eastie. But apparently, Rita is able to make her quota by going around the neighborhood on the first of the month between 4 and 6AM and ticketing the 1/12 of the drivers in Eastie (who have birthdays in November) who forgot to put their sticker on the night before. This is what I object to.

Posted by tommy on 2007-11-05 11:48:08 +0000

Glib -- Write a letter asking them to dismiss your ticket. If things have not changed in 3 years or so, then your ticket says "expired registration" or the like, and not "failure to display up-to-date sticker". But you did in fact have an up-to-date registration and so you never broke the rule they wrote you up for. I had the same thing happen to me a few years ago when I lived in Boston. In my case, I had in fact affixed the sticker, but either it fell off or was stolen. When I got the ticket, I wrote a letter denying that I ever had an expired registration, and then I proved it by sending photocopies of both my new and old registrations. They dismissed my ticket without my having to bother with a hearing.

Posted by Miriam on 2007-11-05 17:45:46 +0000

I'm with Tommy on this one. I got pulled over in Nashville Summer '06 for an out tail light and was ticketed for not having my address up-to-date on my license, not for the faulty wiring in my car. I went to traffic court to contest it...after updating my addy, and was dismissed without a fine. If you already had the registration, take the time to correct it in the system rather than pay the fine...but it will like cost you 1/2 out of the office.

Posted by pchippy on 2007-11-05 17:51:29 +0000

Not worth my while. Not because I don't think I could talk them out of it eventually, but because the flusterment of dealing with the parking and motor vehicle bureaucracies is such a stress to me that each interaction takes probably two days off my life expectancy. I paid the $20 and am letting it go at that.

Posted by MF DU on 2007-11-06 02:53:05 +0000

but because the flusterment of dealing with the parking and motor vehicle bureaucracies is such a stress to me Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil' comes to mind...

Posted by Miriam on 2007-11-06 16:05:57 +0000

That's too bad. My experience in Traffic Court was one of my favorites. The best was the woman trying to get out of a stop-sign-running by saying she stopped for her the kids in her car to do a Chinese firedrill at the stop sign. The officer who she nearly crashed into disagreed, and the entire room burst into laughter.