Got parking ticket in America

Happychappy

This is the latest posting on a similar vein, except our home grown good old radical brits, rant and rave in their normal anti establishment, paranoid manner with the ususal guest appearance from barrackroomlawyer.com.

That was what I found so amusing from this post when everyone is frightened of the americans and holiday land but couldnt give a stuff here.

British Parking ticket

mikey72

You owe at least $100 to the car hire company, and if they have paid the fine on their car, that as well. The t&c's that you must have signed at some stage usually will let them charge it to your card retrospectively anyway, so it's probably immaterial whether you decide to pay or not.

cactusdust

When I was in Canada on Vancouver Island, my Dad got a parking ticket. We were actually in a USA Californian registered Hertz hire car (as we'd driven up the coast from San Francisco through Oregon and Washington State).

Anyway, we returned after going into the National Park, and had a parking ticket. My Dad went up to the National Park Rangers Office, and queried it.. the girl in the office then took the ticket off of him realising we were British and ripped it up (obviously voiding it), saying "Have a nice stay in Canada!".

That made us wonder, perhaps they'd just seen the "Californian" number plate and got logical!

stacey777

mouseymousey99 wrote: »

Hello - I'm with the pay it people. I can't imagine forgetting a ticket
I can just imagine the fizzing if someone had received a ticket here and then flown home to another country and ignored it.....(yes I know it happens)...

yip barking up the right tree but HOLIDAY - FLORIDA -PARKING TICKET- what to do.

bring it on :cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool:

stacey777

Happychappy wrote: »

This is the latest posting on a similar vein, except our home grown good old radical brits, rant and rave in their normal anti establishment, paranoid manner with the ususal guest appearance from barrackroomlawyer.com.

That was what I found so amusing from this post when everyone is frightened of the americans and holiday land but couldnt give a stuff here.

British Parking ticket

Yip even on the moneyaving home page there's an article about unfair tickets. Also forgot to state we were facing the wrong direction hardly the crime of the century. We had also paid our parking fee and didnt have a reason to think we were breaking the law,


Some folk are just power starved and will use any means to exercise.

baileysbattlebus

We got a speeding ticket in Utah a few years ago - I wouldn't mind - we were in a small town - keeping up with the flow of traffic - perhaps we were stopped because we had Nevada plates on the car.

When we got home, we hummed and ha'd about paying it ($100), we did in the end, we were concerned about having an unpaid fine on file and the possibility that we could be refused entry to the US on a future visit.

I would pay it, though I'm sure parking tickets are a "municiple" issue not a federal issue.

stacey777

baileysbattlebus wrote: »

We got a speeding ticket in Utah a few years ago - I wouldn't mind - we were in a small town - keeping up with the flow of traffic - perhaps we were stopped because we had Nevada plates on the car.

When we got home, we hummed and ha'd about paying it ($100), we did in the end, we were concerned about having an unpaid fine on file and the possibility that we could be refused entry to the US on a future visit.

I would pay it, though I'm sure parking tickets are a "municiple" issue not a federal issue.

Yeah I wonder if the rest of the travellers got a ticket??

fuzzybear01

My husband racked up a couple of fines in Holland when in the Forces there, when we went on hol there they didn't stop us on the way in but stopped us at passport control and wouldn't let him out of the country before paying. I would personally just pay-up to avoid the embarrassment!

stacey777

fuzzybear01 wrote: »

My husband racked up a couple of fines in Holland when in the Forces there, when we went on hol there they didn't stop us on the way in but stopped us at passport control and wouldn't let him out of the country before paying. I would personally just pay-up to avoid the embarrassment!

will have to have a look for the ticket and see if we can get it paid thanks

derrick

I received a speeding ticket in Florida in 1994, 3 days before we where due to return home, never paid it and have not heard anything about it since.
Don't know if we will ever go back to the USA, but is there not a "statute of limitations" over there? If so it should be statute barred by now for payment!