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Title: $5 Parking Ticket Causes Chaos For All Pa. Meters
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Published: May 4, 2005
Author: MSM
Post Date: 2005-05-04 22:03:25 by Jethro Tull
Keywords: Parking, Ticket, Causes
Views: 441
Comments: 4
This guy is a wonderful example of tying the system up in knots. I realize it's impossible for everyone to go to this extreme, but whoever can, should. The system relies on compliance and if even 10% of us take summons, etc to the wall, they will lose money. *** ********** Towns Find Meters Not Certified POSTED: 10:55 am EST April 29, 2005 PITTSBURGH -- All Chuck Pascal wanted to do was challenge a $5 parking ticket. But his victory in a Butler, Pa., court has sent shock waves through the state and led some towns to suspend writing tickets. Pascal showed that Butler was in violation of a state law that requires parking meters to be certified as accurate every three years. Now, cities and towns are clamoring for the state's Division of Weights and Measures to certify their meters. The division, which has to inspect everything from gasoline pumps to delicatessen scales, is overwhelmed. Butler has stopped writing tickets until its meters are certified. So has Erie, at a cost of $2,000 a day in fines. At least two dozen municipalities are waiting for certification
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
I don't think this was extreme. He just knew the law. I know a man in S.C. who had his speeding ticket thrown out and a magistrate de-throned when he documented the magistrate had not filed for his magistrate renewal on time.
great story
Whoa....talk about golden oldies :)
I realize it's impossible for everyone to go to this extreme,
#2. To: Jethro Tull, All (#0)
#3. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Hey, wait. I got a new complaint.
Forever in debt to your price of supply. - Nirvana
#4. To: Artisan, farmfriend, all (#2)
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