<p>So, I got $45 in parking tickets last semester. Parents were not happy. That's 3 tickets.</p>
<p>This semester, I got 2 more tickets, so that's $30, plus they assess $50 fine for each ticket over three that you get. So altogether another $130.</p>
<p>My parents will probably kill me.
However, from the people I've talked to, this is a pretty normal amount of tickets to accumulate. I know people who have gotten worse.</p>
<p>Parking is such a pain and it's so easy to forget to move your car.</p>
<p>I will not be getting any more tickets this year because the snow ban has been lifted and I can park on the street finally.</p>
<p>But I'm not sure how to tell my dad about these tickets. Of course I will be paying (I already have), but they show up on my bill.
Should I tell my dad on the phone or wait until he sees them on the bill?
I thought it was just $30, I didn't realize the $50 fee or I would have been much more careful. I figured it's be better to risk a campus ticket than a city ticket, but apparently not.</p>
<p>Anyhow, anyone have issues with parking tickets?</p>
<p>I haven't had this problem, but I know at my school if you talk to the people who issue them (campus safety here) and say that it's a financial burden, made a mistake and it won't happen again, etc...they'll waive at least some of them. If you haven't already paid, it never hurts to talk to people and let them know you learned your lesson! =)</p>
<p>As for telling your dad, I always tell people things straight, like this is what happened and this is what I did about it. I'm assuming your in college, so you're an adult and hopefully he won't get mad about it. I got a speeding ticket and my dad kinda laughed at me. Now I know what areas in town not to speed in!</p>
<p>sometimes, you don't have to pay campus parking tickets.</p>
<p>if they're not linked with the actual city gov't, then they have no enforcing jurisdiction (ie: they're on private property, so the gov't can fine you).</p>
<p>if there's some sort of parking pass system linked to your license plate, however, you may have to pay.</p>
<p>That's not really true. If you're a student there and you parked on their property, there are plenty of things they can do to make you pay up!
...Probably the most common would be to simply place a hold on your diploma and transcripts until you pay up!</p>
<p>well, they have no way of enforcing. they can't match your car to you.</p>
<p>sure, they stick a ticket on your window...maybe even note the type of car and license plate number.</p>
<p>but what are they gonna do with that? they don't have access to the state database....</p>
<p>i speak from experiance. my brother went to a city school, accumulated a few hundred dollars worth of tickets over 4 years, never paid them...and graduated without a problem.</p>
<p>Well if he's already paid for the first $45 I'm sure they made not of what car/license plate it was for and can make a quick look through their computer program to find that it's his tickets.</p>
<p>Your tickets are cheap compared to the ones people I know have gotten...</p>
<p>And here, they can and do put holds on your account for not paying. Everything from registration to graduation can be affected by those tickets. I have no clue HOW, but somehow they pull it off</p>
<p>Every campus I know of requires students and even staff to register their cars, so they have a name and at least a license plate and description. They give you a sticker so they know the car is registered...that's how they link the car and owner.</p>
<p>My school at least won't let you register or graduate if you have any account balance, and parking tickets are one of the things they charge to your account.</p>
<p>If you've already paid them, fess up to it. When you do, emphasize that you could have kept it hidden, but didn't. You're more mature than that. Also emphasize that parking tickets are better than tickets for speeding, driving w/o a license, or driving under the influence.</p>
<p>tickets aren't too bad at least... pretty cheap.</p>
<p>I live in student apartments right next to campus, and someone with a restricted parking pass (which means fresh or soph) has gotten 2 boots on their car this semester for parking in the apartment complex during the week. (It was the culmination of many tickets, you don't get a boot for first offense)</p>
<p>And, any intelligent school makes you register your car on campus, so they know which car goes with which person. It would be very stupid not to.</p>
<p>"And, any intelligent school makes you register your car on campus, so they know which car goes with which person. It would be very stupid not to."</p>
<p>not when the campus is in the middle of a city and many of the kids park barely on campus, and many people who park on campus are actually not students.</p>
<p>well if the school doesn't have a campus, then they have no parking to control, and that is that. If people unrelated to the school are parking in school parking spots and taking the limited spaces from professors and students (and other school personnel), that is a major problem.</p>
<p>Also, some kids may not have "their" car on campus.</p>
<p>Case in point: at my school you register two cars at the beginning of the year (first semester). In August I still had my 1988 Acura and that was my first car on the list. I knew I would get the 1996 Volvo at some point in the school year (read: both semesters) so I put that as the second one, with my license plate for both.</p>
<p>About a month ago, I had to take the Volvo in for a minor engine problem and it was out of commission for a day. I had my mom's SUV, which has a different plate, and isn't registered. The only other vehicle they can link with me is a car I haven't used since November, no longer own, and sold to a guy who has about a 0% chance of parking on my campus.</p>
<p>Now let's say I park illegally. They have no way of linking that SUV to any student on campus. My mom could have loaned it to the guy who sits next to me in history for all that matters.</p>
<p>I've only gotten one ticket and it was only because I was moving and had to park illegally to save myself from moving heavy objects by foot half-way across campus. I just went to the campus police station, explained the situation and they waived the ticket. </p>
<p>As for what they can do to you, my school puts holds on registration, transcripts, and graduation...so there's absolutely no way around paying the tickets other than them deciding you had a good reason for parking illegally after you going in to talk to them. </p>
<p>We have to register our cars each year to get our parking stickers, too, so they have all of our information on file and know exactly which car is whose. My student account actually got locked a few hours after getting the ticket I mentioned earlier (talk about efficiency when you owe them money...I went to the station and got it dismissed fifteen minutes after getting it) and got unlocked a few days later. Luckily it happened at the first of this quarter, so it didn't affect my registration at all.</p>
<p>They might give you a temporary sticker....my mom works on a military base and they gave her a temporary parking sticker until she found time to drive 20 minutes to get a permanent sticker for her car. Like if you rent a car or buy a new car or whatever, they will give you a temporary sticker, most of the time.</p>
<p>Hi everyone,
Thanks for the advice. I appealed the tickets and they refunded the $100 extra fee. I said I didn;t know about the extra $50 (which was true) and that if I had known it, I would not have even considered parking on campus ever because I am on financial aid (which is also true).
Basically I told the truth and they understood. Go figure.</p>