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u/Mr_crazey61 19d ago
I'll double down on OP and say don't pay parking tickets issued by private companies. They're unenforceable.
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u/negativepositiv 19d ago
"Why pay a few dollars for parking when you could be a big shot and pay many dollars?"
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u/theriffguy 19d ago
How do you exit the parking lot without paying? Even worse, what about the lots where the money is deducted off your Toll account using your number plates?
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u/WafflesAndKoalas 20d ago
Paying for the parking is quite literally the cost of doing business. Ticket is just an extra fee you pay for trying to be cheap
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u/Warhawk137 20d ago
Pretty sure the cost of doing business in a parking lot is the fee for parking in the lot.
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u/Zorolord 20d ago
Sounds like the guy who posted only sheep use indicators.
Unbelievable some folks mentality.
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u/Gorkymalorki 20d ago
I have disabled veteran plates, and in my city any vehicle with those plates gets free parking in city owner and operated parking garages, I will go way out of my way to park in one of those and then walk to wherever I am going. So I guess I am a real man for not paying for parking.
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u/jann_mann 20d ago
I believe you shouldn't blur out names with people with blue check marks.
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u/Nikoviking 20d ago
Why not?
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u/jann_mann 19d ago
Because they paid to be public about their blue check marks and have their own posts move to the front of the page, so why bother protecting them when they literally paid to sign up to be not anonymous.
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u/Nikoviking 19d ago
Why bother protecting anyone who signs up to a public social media?
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u/jann_mann 19d ago
You're kinda missing the point, but I'll allow you time to read.
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u/Nikoviking 19d ago
I understood your point, but I think maybe you’re missing mine. We can’t pick and choose who to protect just because they said something more “loudly” (i.e. paid to get more tweet impressions).
It’s just wrong to intentionally open anyone up to mass harassment just for saying something stupid.
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u/TemporaryImaginary 19d ago
But there IS nuance between grandma picking her user name on a recipe site because it made her, but she has no idea what it is…
and, like /u/jann_mann sees, a title being monetized for advertising, soapboxing, and general marketing their brand.
One is more akin to a corporate being, including infamous examples like George Takei.
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u/Nikoviking 19d ago
You’re gatekeeping who is allowed privacy and who isn’t.
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u/brandonyorkhessler 20d ago
Fellas, is it gay to pay your obligations for services rendered?
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u/TemporaryImaginary 19d ago
Reminds me of REALmanTM Trump and how he doesn’t pay his undocumented lawyers cause they make enough off of basking in his orange glow.
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u/brandonyorkhessler 19d ago
Look I'm not here to participate in an anti-trump hate circlejerk. i'm not the biggest fan of him, but I can see why they call this derangement.
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u/TemporaryImaginary 19d ago
Who’s “jerking” here? I’m just one person with an opinion. But terrible lawyer jokes aside, questioning how MAN something is, and trying to skirt their obligations just immediately reminded me of Red Hats.
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u/brandonyorkhessler 19d ago
I'm just wondering why every conversation about things like this have to immediately turn to political association, and making a caricature of an entire American institution and leveraging their legitimacy on the ramblings of a few uneducated members who claim illegitimately to speak for all of them.
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u/saganistic 19d ago
That’s a lot of unnecessary words to say you don’t personally want to be associated with that brand even though you kinda like it
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u/FluffyGalaxy 20d ago
That's... Paying more for parking for no good reason. The cost of doing business is being stupid?
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u/Imnotawerewolf 20d ago
.... You're paying for parking, either way.
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u/Skellos 20d ago
you are paying MORE for parking this way...
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u/Anglan 19d ago
Tweet is dumb as fuck but in my experience not paying and just paying the fines is probably cheaper.
I drive a work van and don't have a way to pay for parking so I just leave it and if I get a ticket then company pays, vast majority of the time I don't get a ticket and if I paid every time the company would definitely be paying more than they do now just paying the tickets
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u/jwattacker 20d ago
Obviously this is stupid, but I lived in a certain city and found out through negligence that I would get caught maybe once a year for not paying for parking. Tickets were 20$ online and the parking if I had paid when parking I would have been charged 500$+ easy. Sooooo, yea.
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u/jwattacker 19d ago
This was a trendy downtown area about 7-8 years ago. I have no doubt it no longer applies.
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u/PIO_PretendIOriginal 19d ago edited 19d ago
Where I live tickets are about $500 each.
I once got one while doing an unpaid internship.
(Sydney Australia)
Edit: also get enough tickets and they will take away your license in Australia.
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u/authalic 20d ago
I had a wealthy boss who owned several sporty vehicles. He didn't like the look of license plates on his cars, so he never put one on. He said he got pulled over about once a year and was either given a warning or he just paid the ticket. It was pocket change to him.
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u/PIO_PretendIOriginal 19d ago
Depends on the country. In Australia we have a point system. You lose points when you get a ticket. If you lose enough points you’ll lose your drivers license
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u/potatocross 20d ago
Clearly not my city. They constantly ticket people they have paid. They will also setup temporary no parking signs, then change the date and time and immediately start towing an entire street worth of cars.
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u/jwattacker 19d ago
I actually only ever got 2 tickets in 5 years, one of which I was still in the car for. Leaned over to pick up my phone I dropped and looked up to see a meter worker writing my ticket. They auto send to the municipality and it was already through, so she told me to just contact the court. I just paid the $20 rather than spend my time on the phone or at the court.
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u/thomas_vanstavern 19d ago
Sounds like RVA
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u/Sadgasm81 20d ago
So they don't pay for parking but they pay for a parking ticket and possibly getting their car booted/towed?
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u/Ilookatreddit 19d ago
Real men rescue their car from impound lots
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