No Justice
None what-so-ever. Not exactly a surprise, is it? And what makes me even crazier than my indignation at my personal situation is the treatment I witnessed of many other poor (usually literally) people who were just as unlucky - as opposed to unlawful. Maybe I'll tell a few of their stories when I've calmed down a bit more. But almost the whole thing was a racket - legalized extortion - with the smarmy judge playing good guy and the smug contemptuous/contemptible cops just being themselves. And, dear Lord, the money that must be involved! In the half an hour that I observed, 10 people at least got stuck paying $140 each - and that was thanks to the judge's "generosity". When I went to the cashier's window in the lobby, there must have been a hundred new people waiting to go into the court room - and it was only 9:00 am. What a revenue stream for a corrupt, corrupt, perverted system! Hard to say whether my head or my heart hurts worse, but thank God for cats and "kittens"...
posted by Lizzy at 9:22 PM
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Oh, Lizzy, dear, you're so right. It is just a way of wringing the widow's mite from her pocket. I'm so sorry. We wished you well all day, and now we send comforting thoughts and a micropurr from Gojira Helen Wheels (the others all ran out to freeze in the mingy cold. Silly kittehs!).
Surround yourself with kitties. It's the only way to keep on.
Hi, PC - Thank you for the support, dear, tonight and all along... And bless your darlings! I'm going off right now to kiss whomever I can catch (whoever? msword doesn't seem to care)...
Hi, Lizzy!
Sorry justice did not prevail for you. I must have missed the post or comment that you made about how this happened. Sounds like you and others came to grief in some sort of "sting.?"
Last week I got TOWED and had to pay $200 to ransom my car back. There was a very tiny sign that said "no parking - tow away zone" and I just didn't see it - in a place were others were parked (they got towed, too!). The place was one I can normally park in ALL the time. But that day they did two hours worth of work on some street maintenance and went home. Grrrrr!
I think you were right to contest it. Sometimes the officers are unable to show up to court and you get off free.
So sorry!
I hope they were all caught and serially kissed. There is nothing so comforting as the warm purr of a soft cat snuggled up to one.
Besides, they deserve many kisses for all their naughty tricks lately.
Oh, Sandy! That is just so rotten! And yes, it's all a a sting. This particular city is actually somewhat infamous for this, and I am usually quite cautious when driving there. The night I got my ticket, I was coming from the er - very sick - and there was a blizzard going on - terrible visibility and 6 inches of very icy snow on the ground. I was surprised by a yellow light turning red, and just went through, rather than try to break - at least 2 other cars did exactly the same thing. I went to court to plead "responsible with explanation" - saying that I made the prudent decision under the circumstances. But when the whole point is to gouge money out of helpless people, logic doesn't come into it. Grrr... 1 woman had been stopped for a dirty license plate - she lost a day's work as well as whatever they fined her - probably $140! Oh, I'd better stop - I'm seeing red again. $200! Plus all the stress! Outrageous.
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