[richlevy]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Did you take a picture of the unexpired meter?
Did you look around for a witness?
Did you dance on the counter of the police station?
Did you demand a trial by a jury or you peers?
Did you write to the newspapers and politicians?

Or did you just figure out it would cost more to fight than the cost of the ticket and roll over like a soft suburban pussy, so they could screw you and the next guy and the next guy and the.......



That's what I'd do.

Actually, I ran into the store where I had been shopping a few minutes before and called for witnesses. They actually sort of moved towards the front door, very slowly, but not fast enough.

I did call the parking authority and report the meter. When I told the woman there that the meter maid said that she read it as expired, the woman asked "so you're not reporting a defective meter". I explained that I assumed that the meter maid was telling the truth and that the side that is read from the street might show a different reading from the side I was reading from, and basing my time left on.

And yes, I would have loved to have had a camera phone at that point.

I did ask the meter maid why she gave me a ticket when there was time left on the meter, and she looked and me and said "that's what you say". This sort of indicates to me that I am going to lose this case.

I also felt that we had a failure to communicate.