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- From: davis@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Barbara Davis)
- Subject: Re: Letter to Parking Services
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.162405.28008@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <1992Jul30.024811.19623@colorado.edu> <1992Jul30.190212.8564@colorado.edu>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:24:05 GMT
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- fielden@spot.Colorado.EDU (j.a. fielden) writes:
-
- > I have seen tickets on cars with time left on the meters. . I guess the
- >assumption is that if there is less than 5 minutes left you are not going
- >to make it back before it expires. They are hard to dispute because how
- >can you produce evidence that there was time left before the ticket was
- >written(in the case of the non-computerized meters).
-
- There is a practice, especially among poverty stricken grad students who
- don't qualify for parking lot permits, of placing an old ticket on the
- windshield when parking. The desperate hope is that the parking nazis will
- not ticket an already ticketed car. That may explain the tickets residing
- on windshields of legally parked car with time left on the meter.
-
- >Another one I love is when I put half an hour on a meter come back in
- >25 minutes and it's already expired. I swear some of those meters are
- >fast so you end up putting more than enough money to ensure you've got
- >enough time.
-
- I have definitely been *gotten* with this one.
-
- Barb
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- Barbara G. Davis Internet: davis@ucsu.colorado.edu
- University of Colorado, Boulder
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- If I don't ask, you can't say, "Yes!".
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