Double Parking Ticket
Yesterday at 4:20 pm, I double parked my car outside my home on Wash Ave to off-load my 3 and 7 year old. I left the flashers on and my wife came down the stoop to pick them up. In the 4 min transaction an 88 Precinct patrol car pulled in front of my car…
Yesterday at 4:20 pm, I double parked my car outside my home on Wash Ave to off-load my 3 and 7 year old. I left the flashers on and my wife came down the stoop to pick them up. In the 4 min transaction an 88 Precinct patrol car pulled in front of my car and issued a ticket even though they saw the kids. Arguing was in vain and the officer said she ‘wanted to teach me a lesson’. However, the ticket was incomplete and omitted the time. I plan on contesting it and have three witnesses who saw the bizarre exchange. Any advice?
NEVER say anything that suggests you were doing anything wrong! They will not be lenient regardless of the circumstances. ONLY contest based on the defective ticket.
@Petebklyn – Standing or parking at a hydrant is the same fine as double parking. Luckily this all seems to be less well-enforced in Brooklyn than Manhattan, but it’s part of the cost of driving / living in the city.
Since it was 4:20 the officer probably assumed you were stoned.
you wouldn’t have gotten a ticket if you were blocking a bike lane.
lol Rick. cool story.
You’re lucky enough that you’ll get off on the time technicality.
I had a situation where I got a ticket and I had a great excuse with doctor’s notes and ER room check in visit and guess what…GUILTY. The judge said “ignorance of the law is not an excuse”.
Years ago, a guy was double parked on my block. He had his flashers on but looked to be sleeping. There were a few tickets on his windshield and the cops never tried to wake him up. It turned out that he was not sleeping at all, he was dead!
Agree with dh. There is nothing to suggest that this was a “bizarre exchange”. Double parking is illegal and the police officer was just doing her job – writing a ticket for an illegal action (and protecting “quality of life” in the neighborhood).
However, if the ticket has no time stamp and you can get off on this technicality, go for it. But don’t try to explain what you were doing – that will only hurt your cause. Good luck.
well, if instead of building a building on every morsel of land and we had more parking lots for “free” for all the cars we have, which are not going away any time soon, we wouldn’t have this problem.
but because every spec of land has to have a luxury condo on it, no wonder we have no parking anywhere….
man, just doens’t want to make things easier for man….and to think, we create all this madness.
“In the 4 min transaction an 88 Precinct patrol car pulled in front of my car and issued a ticket even though they saw the kids. Arguing was in vain……”
I’m confused. Were you not double parked? Is double parking legal if unloading children? Sounds like a legit ticket to me.