Her car was 'courtesy' towed to an illegal spot then ticketed by PPA. The city wants $300 in fines

[TheBlackAdder]

9. NJ had a saying, There are three crimes that have no expiration date: Murder, Rape & Parking Tickets

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Cities caught onto this and would randomly generate parking ticket violations that were over 5 years old and mail them out to unsuspecting people. Sometimes, the cars would not match the tag number, but that didn't matter because you would have to take a day off work and drive across the state to contest it in traffic court--only to find yourself losing.

The onus was on the driver to prove they were not in that town on a given day five years ago!

It was cheaper to pay the ticket and fines, generally around $100, than to take the day off and lose anyways.

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There was such an outcry about this that it was reduced to a maximum or either one or two years. Of course, it took over 10 years of these shenanigans before this was changed. Cities and towns were raking in hundreds of thousands to millions a year on this scheme.


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