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    what's the biggest parking ticket you've had?

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    the number or the amount? I got 6 one semester but they were only $10 a pop.


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    I've only had one. $50 for parking at my own house. (Sent in address verification and got my money back).

    I would have had more but I spent $450 each year to park at school.



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    Worst ones have been from State Troopers, I rarely get stopped by local cops. State Troopers always get me with big fines.

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    $25 back in 2000. My old apartment only had street parking, and there was a snow ban in effect. I didn't know about the ban, because I was sleeping. I slept during the day, and worked all night back then.

    My landlord came knocking on my door and let me know that there was a cop outside that was ticketing all the cars parked on the street (all tenants), and he was calling the tow trucks.

    I ran out and yelled at the cop after he handed me the ticket. Then I moved my car to a vacant lot we got clearance to use.

    That's the worst I've ever gotten.

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    I got tickets leaft right and center, but the worst one was when I parked at a store's parking lot to go to the nearby mall (downtown.. very limited parking)

    When I came back there was a ticket for $60 for parking on "private property"

    Learned MY lesson!

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    I got a $125 ticket for an expired meter in the loop. The sucky thing is that the meter maid was ticketing another car as I was waddling (slowly) up to my car. I had been to the OB and was on my way back to the car. I knew the meter was about to expire and I was trying to walk as fast as I could (I was 2 weeks over due at this point...so I was HUMUNGO). I called to her, got her attention before she data entered anything into the ticket meter...she looked at me, smiled, and then handed me the fucking ticket!! My meter dinged right as I walked up to the car. Bitch. I wanted to take the ticket and shove it so far up her ass she would get a paper cut on her tonsils.

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    $75 in downtown Boston, from a spot where I was legally parked that somehow changed to a tow zone after 12AM.

    Was also about 30 seconds away from being towed when I got to the car, thus avoiding a $350 tow charge and a trip to the Southie impound lot.
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    $125 in st.paul minnesota

    i was in the store for 10 minutes!!!

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    I've never had a parking ticket that I had to pay for, but my final semester at college about six weeks before graduation, I got one marked "second notice" in my mailbox for parking in a campus lot that I had never even parked my car in!


    So how did this come about? Well the brilliant geniuses at the campus parking office had some tickets that didn't get paid the first time (they mail them out instead of leaving them on the windshield) because they didn't get a response from the recipient, so the second time around they just decided to look up names in the student directory, and in my case there just happened to be another student with my same first and last name, who just happened to live in the dormitory near the lot where the ticket was written up. Hmm....

    The guilty party had apparently left campus the prior semester (when the ticket had occured) so they couldn't find him, and they figured any guy named [firstname lastname] was just as good, so they send me the damned ticket.

    So, I went down the campus parking office the next day and gave them a sound ass chewing and explained to them that I wasn't that person, I did NOT own the car with license plate marked on the citation, had never lived in that dormitory, and had never parked in the lot in question in the five years I had been on campus. I also explained that a simple check of their records to find my parking pass data would have prevented the whole mix up, but hey thats bureaucracy for ya.


    So yes, I got off. But with it being so close to graduation, I was outraged because if the university's records showed that I owed them money in any way (tuition, parking fees, phone bill, balance left on your credit at the campus bookstore), they would NOT give me my diploma. I worried incessantly about it until the moment they handed the thing to me.
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