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- From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
- Newsgroups: ne.general
- Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 18:10:40 GMT
- Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
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- In article <MSALETNI.92Dec31124023@jade.tufts.edu> msaletni@jade.tufts.edu (Michael J. Saletnik) writes:
- |In slightly the same vein, something happened to a friend of mine. It
- |was 2am, and he was in an area of Somerville that was permit parking
- |1am-8am. When he got to his car, he found a ticket. However, the
- |time written on it was 2:45am.
- |
- |He didn't bother to swing by the police station to get it certified
- |that the ticket was, indeed, timed in the future, but if he had, what
- |would have happened? Obviously, the ticket is invalid, but in stating
- |that he discovered this at 2am, and was thus still parked illegally
- |for an hour, could/would they still ticket him? Or can they not do
- |that after the fact?
-
- I suppose, if it was worth the price of the ticket, he could wake up a
- friend (or perhaps find an up-and-around acquaintance at work) 10
- miles away, drive over and establish his presence there for an hour or
- so. He could then just present an affidavit in court that he and his
- car were nowhere near the parking space in question at the time. I
- guess it would be worth it for, say, a $25 ticket but maybe not for a
- $2 ticket.
-
- /J
- =
- Nets: levin@bbn.com | "There were sweetheart roses on Yancey Wilmerding's
- POTS: (617)873-3463 | bureau that morning. Wide-eyed and distraught, she
- N1MNF | stood with all her faculties rooted to the floor."
- | -- S. J. Perelman
-