What color is my car??

Yeah I'd fight it babsrocks!

You have to develop a compelling arguement though. Here's one case that a friend of mine in the police showed me (I've blurred out the name of the guy)

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His case was so well-presented, he was successful as you can see below...

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So good luck with that. B)

 

Unfortunately, it sounds like it's a private parking lot, and if you don't pay their fines, they tow your car first chance they get (when it's found on their property again). Then you get to pay the fines, the interest, and the towing charges. Nice racket, eh?

 

Thanks for the great post, samiam. Good luck, babsrocks.

 

hmmmm.
I wonder if I have an escape clause to get out of tickets...
For some reason, all the paperwork and registration on my '06 Seaside Pearl prius says "Green." Where they got that is beyond me.
So if the ticket says blue and the registration says green.... hmm.

 

Too bad there is no camo color option, then maybe you wouldn't get a ticket at all.

 

Geez, just pay the fine. You already admitted you screwed up. Don't try to weasel out.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(babsrocks @ Jul 13 2007, 04:34 PM) [snapback]478402[/snapback]</div>

Not to discourage you or anything, but I got a parking ticket from the City of Los Angeles (I live in San Jose, and was not even in LA on the day in question).

They had the color of the car wrong, and (it later turned out) even the make of the car incorrect! But my first attempt to get the thing dismissed resulted in failure, even though I sent pictures of the car and explained I wasn't in LA on the day in question (in fact, that car, a Camry, has NEVER been in LA or anywhere near!). None of that mattered to the person who did the administrative review (the necessary first step in contesting a ticket). After all, these guys/gals are NOT being paid to find you innocent!

Anyway, I had to go to the next level and file for a "hearing by written declaration" before anyone actually looked at all the discrepancies and concluded it wasn't me! I got the ticket dismissed and my money back.

In general, this is a revenue source for cities, and they've heard it all and are not impressed. So unless you really have a case (as I did) it's probably better to pay up and be more careful next time. Let someone else pay for city services in this manner!

 

They could get a whole lot *more* revenue if they went after the
butthead drivers, but maybe that's insufficiently "anonymous" since
the enforcement officer would have to deal directly with people.
.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(babsrocks @ Jul 13 2007, 06:34 PM) [snapback]478402[/snapback]</div>

My 2005 Tideland Pearl was listed as green on the internet listing and on the paperwork at the dealer (non-Toyota.) To me it looks gray most of the time and occasionally greenish in certain lights. My son sees gray, green and even blue at various times. Interesting phenomenon... Would be an interesting poll to ask everyone who sees my car what color it is to them! I could code responses male/female, child/adolescent/adult, color-blind/not, am/pm, sunny/overcast/rain/snow, etc. Sounds like a doctoral dissertation idea!

 

The color was called Sileni Green in the UK, Jade Green Mica Metallic in Japan, and possibly Gun Olive in Australia.

(Source was Tom Stangl's excellent website... http://vfaq.net/docs/PaintCodes.html )

 

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(catgic @ Jul 29 2007, 01:43 AM) [snapback]487018[/snapback]</div>

My wife works for a lab at UC Berkeley. She's an admin, so she doesn't get a reserved parking space in the garage underneath her building. So on days when she drives in she has to deal with moving her car every 2 hours until 6pm since her only parking option is street parking. It's not uncommon for her to get one or two parking tickets a month at $36 each.

The thing is, though, it's her choice. I think this qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment, but then, my workplace has lots of free parking and I suck at parallel parking. But she's fine with it. (The fact she opts to take BART in maybe 4 out of every 5 days helps, too.)

Oh, and as for cars magically morphing, when I had my old car I got a ticket from some Southern California municipality asserting that my car had the same license plate but was otherwise completely different. It wasn't a cheap ticket, too -- something like parking in a handicapped space, so it was something like $390. All I had to do, though, was tick off "This is not my car" and send a copy of my registration.