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duncanrogers
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 133
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 10:12 am: | 
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Please tell me that it is not standard operating procedure for South Orange to require my attendance in court over a misplaced dime. While in SO Village this morning, my wife fed the wrong meter and subsequently was ticketed at the one she should have fed. Oops. Thats a fifteen dollar mistake. But on the ticket is a court appearance date for this violation. You have got to be kidding me. We have to take a day off from work to appear before a judge to say what>?? I goofed, heres your money.. This is ridiculous. Please tell me that the ticketing officer made an error and that I just have to pay the fine.
Otherwise SO just lost one of its best customers. |
bets
Citizen
Username: Bets
Post Number: 222
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 10:53 am: |
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Um, just mail in a check made out to SO Municipal Court, with the ticket filled out w/driver's license number and signature, and you're off the hook. |
duncanrogers
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 134
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 11:33 am: |
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bets.. It says you can only do that(plead guilty and pay the fine by mail) if the court appearance box is NOT checked. Which it is on mine. |
bets
Citizen
Username: Bets
Post Number: 224
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 12:06 pm: |
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Then I would call the court on Monday and ask. That just doesn't make sense. Good luck, and let us know what the outcome is. |
Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 3895
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 8:32 pm: |
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I have heard the courts treat actors differently ;-) |
duncanrogers
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 135
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 9:52 pm: |
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Honest officer, my assistant was gonna pay the meter. I cannot imagine how this could have happened. |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 2319
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, November 24, 2002 - 8:24 am: |
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You could always claim you were a method actor and getting into a role as a scoflaw. 
More practically I would suggest that you call or visit the South Orange Police Station and try to get them to uncheck the box before the ticket goes to the court. This is an obvious mistake and I doubt if the Judge is going to issue a bench warrent for you if you just pay the fine. However it is no fun to try to re-register your car and find that there is a hold on it because of outstanding fines.
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notehead
Citizen
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 393
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, December 8, 2002 - 12:22 pm: |
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I got something in the mail a few months ago from the Village saying that there was a WARRANT for my ARREST over some year-old parking ticket that I knew absolutely nothing about. That was fun, I enjoyed being a fugitive for a few days, and I can now refer to myself as a rebel whenever I feel like it. I wish I knew what the heck they were talking about, though. I just went to the police station and paid it, but it was definitely frustrating to not know if I actually DID commit a parking offense and the ticket was missing, or if they had the wrong guy. |
Soda
Citizen
Username: Soda
Post Number: 839
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 9, 2002 - 8:13 am: |
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I saw Sbenois pluck the parking ticket off your windshield and skip away, giggling insanely. He's got a wall in the rest room of The Cafe covered with dozens of such ill-gotten summonses. They make for some interesting reading during emergency sit-downs caused by yumster-overload. |
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