Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Bloomberg's parking judges out to screw us all


From Fox 5:

Mike and his wife Amy are understandably frustrated. A judge at Parking Violations ordered Mike to pay for tickets a UPS truck is getting.

"I feel it isn't fair," Mike said. "I'm basically being judged to pay something that isn't mine."

Fox 5 talked to the UPS driver.

"Do you mean to say he's actually getting my tickets or something like that?" he said.

Mike, the fellow ordered to pay the tickets, isn't the driver, and has nothing to do with the UPS truck. The UPS guy said his truck gets tickets regularly.

"I get maybe one or two tickets a day," he said.

Yet the bills for some of those tickets are going to Mike Godoy, a Marine and Iraq war veteran. He and Amy, a Brooklyn teacher, feel helpless.

"I'm really worried," Amy said. "We just got married and this is very stressful."

They regularly find late payment notices for the UPS truck's parking tickets in their mailbox.

"I started getting tickets in the mail with late fees and double parking," Mike said. "I didn't even recognize the license plate at first."

Turns out the license plate on the UPS truck ends in JY. But the ticket-writer is putting down something that looks more like JX.

"It seems like the officer is writing sloppy," Mike said.

And that sloppy mistake -- that JX -- traces to a license plate that the Department of Motor Vehicles said Mike once had, but turned in 2007. Although the plates were destroyed, the listing and the connection to Mike remain in the state computer.

11 comments:

Babs said...

This is UNBELIEVABLE!

I feel so sorry for this couple.

The DOT is THAT stupid - the judge in this case THAT stupid - my jaw is to the ground on this one!

Appeal directly to the DOT Commissioner Sadik-Khan and PUBLICLY! Their failure to not do their jobs efficiently and quickly is tantamount to HARRASSMENT.

SUE!

Queens Crapper said...

NYPD, not DOT.

Anonymous said...

Babs - stop the faux outrage. This is a BS story about a problem that can easily be solved with a little legwork. This couple should not sue. Rather, they should just get their paperwork in order and straighten it out. Seriously, what some people won't do for their 15 minutes of fame.

Queens Crapper said...

I guess you didn't watch the story before commenting because they tried that already.

Anonymous said...

The judge refused to throw out the tickets...

Was it Judge Feinstein? Rosenberg? Steinmanowitzbergman?

Anonymous said...

The first mistake is expecting the monkeys they hire to write tickets to be literate.

Anonymous said...

Anon No. 5:

Usually some people try harder to make anti-semitic comments here.

Anonymous said...

This couple needs to sue the city. They need to recoup the money that these bogus tickets are costing them and their credit rating. The parking judges do this because they know people won't fight back. It's time to stand your ground and fight this corruption. Let the revolution begin!

Anonymous said...

This couple needs to sue the city. They need to recoup the money that these bogus tickets are costing them and their credit rating. The parking judges do this because they know people won't fight back. It's time to stand your ground and fight this corruption. Let the revolution begin!

Anonymous said...

"I guess you didn't watch the story before commenting because they tried that already."

You're correct Crappy. So I take back what I said about this nice young couple, but not Babs.

Anonymous said...

What does this have to do with Bloomberg?