I simply don't feel like paying the damn thing.

11/17/2008 10:45:03 PM

nothing for a year or so. . .

11/17/2008 10:45:56 PM

Fuck up your credit rating is what they can do.

11/17/2008 10:46:20 PM

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"The owner of a vehicle with more than $250.00 in unpaid parking tickets is subject to having their vehicle immobilized with a wheel boot and/or impounded."

11/17/2008 10:46:23 PM

^what if you don't live in that city anymore. Are the going to come find you and boot you?

11/17/2008 10:48:05 PM

nah. i'd say that if you go to montana on vacay and get a ticket, fuck it.
but if you live in raleigh and get a ticket in raleigh, you might wanna pay a ticket after awhile.

[Edited on November 17, 2008 at 10:49 PM. Reason : .]

11/17/2008 10:49:00 PM

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"Fuck up your credit rating is what they can do."

O rly?

Funny...I'd be highly curious on what grounds.
And even if they did, all one has to do is send a certified letter saying "Prove the validity of this debt; if you can't, you must cease attempts and collections and rectify this mistake, per the fair debt collection practices act".

Given that they will have zero documentation that matters, they'll have to, and it's a simple matter of checking your credit report in a few months, and all is well

I'd like a link, or some support of your statement.

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"but if you live in raleigh and get a ticket in raleigh, you might wanna pay a ticket after awhile."

I know. I just don't want to. I don't feel like it. I don't know why. I deserved the ticket fair and square, I don't get many tickets (actually, this is ticket #2 since 2003 for parking)...I just simply don't feel like paying it

[Edited on November 17, 2008 at 10:51 PM. Reason : dlfjk]

11/17/2008 10:49:41 PM

11/17/2008 10:58:13 PM

what about parking tickets you received on a campus?

I got one on Duke campus, tried to appeal it, but I don't think it worked

I never heard anything back from them on it though so maybe they dropped it

11/17/2008 10:59:59 PM

eventually (after enough tickets) you'll get a boot on your car

11/17/2008 11:00:53 PM

^^^^ Yeah, have fun with that.

I had a ticket that I apparently got on one of the side streets off campus and two years later they were like, "omg fucking bitch pay this fucking ticket or we'll send it to a fucking collection agency." I asked for the documentation and they had it all in triplicate. So I ended up having to pay the ticket (though they were nice and waived the late fees since I convinced them that I had no idea this ticket even existed, which I didn't)

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[Edited on November 17, 2008 at 11:02 PM. Reason : .]

11/17/2008 11:02:43 PM

When I was moving to Raleigh, I took a trip up with my mom's car during the summer to move stuff. Apparently I got a ticket in that time, but it blew away or someone took it or something else happened, because I never knew about it until about a year later, when my mom (in Georgia) got a letter saying they were going to take her car until she paid it.

11/17/2008 11:06:10 PM

What kind of documentation?

Anything that'd hold up in the face of the FDCPA? No. Because you never agreed to the debt, never signed anything, and probably the best they have is the ticket, and maybe pictures of your car. Nothing that consititutes anything that would hold up under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

It's called a scare tactic, dear. What 'documentation' did they give you? Copies of the parking ticket? That's not validation of a debt

What can be done is to have ask for a judgment to be entered against you, but that's not a direct avenue to collections and a negative mark on your credit score.

[Edited on November 17, 2008 at 11:09 PM. Reason : dflgkj]

11/17/2008 11:07:54 PM

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"Given that they will have zero documentation that matters, they'll have to, and it's a simple matter of checking your credit report in a few months, and all is well"

they have documentation.

trust me.

if there isn't documentation in government, it didn't happen.

11/17/2008 11:08:31 PM

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" I got one on Duke campus, tried to appeal it, but I don't think it worked "

Don't even get me started.

I have been ticketed by Duke TWICE for parking in the Visitor's Parking at Duke across from DUMC.

I am parked exactly where I am supposed to park. However, I have been ticketed twice as though I were a staff member or student. I am neither. The first appeal I sent was very polite: 'My son is a patient who goes into clinic several times a week. His file number is ___. If you check your records, you will find that I am not employed by Duke or a student." The second appeal. . .well, not so nice.

[Edited on November 17, 2008 at 11:10 PM. Reason : .]

11/17/2008 11:08:40 PM

they shit on your face while you sleep thats what they do

11/17/2008 11:09:22 PM

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"The second appeal. . .well, not so nice."

<3

11/17/2008 11:09:58 PM

if you got a parking ticket you probably earned it. Just pay it

11/17/2008 11:10:11 PM

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"if you got a parking ticket you probably earned it"

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"I deserved the ticket fair and square"

11/17/2008 11:11:06 PM

I don't feel like going to work tomorrow

doesn't mean I shouldn't

11/17/2008 11:12:17 PM

So you're trying to claim that people don't have to pay fines they don't agree to?

What about if someone loses a lawsuit? If you never agree that you owe money, do you not have to pay it?

11/17/2008 11:12:39 PM

i got one for 37 bucks in montreal


i didn`t feel like paying that one either but i have a feeling it will catch up to me eventually.

11/17/2008 11:12:54 PM

you don't feel like paying the ticket? but you're willing to go through the trouble to rectify your credit?

11/17/2008 11:13:41 PM

wait for the dollar to be work 37 canadian dollars

11/17/2008 11:13:59 PM

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"So you're trying to claim that people don't have to pay fines they don't agree to? What about if someone loses a lawsuit? If you never agree that you owe money, do you not have to pay it?"

That's not at all what I'm saying, and you know it.

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"you don't feel like paying the ticket? but you're willing to go through the trouble to rectify your credit?"

Again: not what I said.

My aim there is to help folks know their goddamn rights when it comes to their credit reports, since a vast majority of people have no clue about that shit.
Presenting personal experience with intimidation tactics as a factual basis for a statement is simply perpetuating that kind of ignorance.

11/17/2008 11:18:48 PM