Robert C. Auer just sent this report a few minutes ago:
I had my incident an hour ago.
1201 N. Market. Lots of parking on 12th St. Put 25¢ in meter. (I'm and electrical inspector and had one at that building.) Came out and was walking behind parking guy. He didn't see me and looked at the meter which plainly said 3 minutes left. He walked to the rear of my vehicle and was starting to write a ticket; when I walked to my vehicle and mentioned that I still had 3 minutes left. He turned and walked off.
I appealed a similar situation in which I actually received a ticket. I came out to the car and the meter still had 6 minutes left and I also had a $40 ticket. I appealed and still have not heard back from the city. However, I went online to check the status of the ticket and the fine had doubled to $80. I've been trying to call the number listed on the ticket for the past 3 days and conveniently, the number is always busy. However, at 4PM sharp, it goes to a nice voicemail message letting you know to call back during business hours. Insane.
ReplyDeleteStrong evidence for incentives for the outsourced ticket-writing contractor to generate tickets for the city... whether legitimate or not.
ReplyDeleteHere's a story of the Wilmington Revenue Department's strong-arm enforcement tactics. In the past 30 days, I have been booted twice outside of my house. The first was removed before I had a chance to see anything put the remnants of the sticker plastered on my driver's window. (A friend had stopped over and mentioned I had a boot. By the time I investigated it was gone.) The second took two days to have removed. In both instances I was not "boot eligible", as all my tickets are under appeal. It is a damn good thing I don't always need my car.
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