Comments on: Parking ticket: I didn’t even know they had hydrants http://rooreynolds.com/2007/02/06/parking-ticket-i-didnt-even-know-they-had-hydrants/ What's Next? Thu, 03 May 2012 04:53:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Roo http://rooreynolds.com/2007/02/06/parking-ticket-i-didnt-even-know-they-had-hydrants/comment-page-1/#comment-2839 Roo Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:29:54 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/2007/02/06/parking-ticket-i-didnt-even-know-they-had-hydrants/#comment-2839 Hmm. This is harder than I thought. <ol> <li>The website does not find my ticket number or (rental car) license plate. It invites me to enter a dollar amount to pay anyway, but without any indication I'm paying my fine, I don't particularly want to. <li>The phone number supplied on the payment envelope for telephone payments goes to the voicemail of an "artist and educator", who is very specific about being an "artist and educator" and sounds from her voicemail message like she gets a lot of phone calls for the NYC Dept of Finance. <li>The website reveals a different phone number for assistance with an online payment transaction. Hurrah. It's (212) NEW-YORK, which actually gets you to a general catch-all help line, with some very helpful humans at the other end. <li>They provided me with a phone number (718 935 0096) which is an automated payment system. As with the online system, no record of my violation is found. </ol> It's been 2 business days since the violation, and I have 20 days in which to pay. I'm going to wait a little longer for it to show up in the system. Hmm. This is harder than I thought.

  1. The website does not find my ticket number or (rental car) license plate. It invites me to enter a dollar amount to pay anyway, but without any indication I’m paying my fine, I don’t particularly want to.
  2. The phone number supplied on the payment envelope for telephone payments goes to the voicemail of an “artist and educator”, who is very specific about being an “artist and educator” and sounds from her voicemail message like she gets a lot of phone calls for the NYC Dept of Finance.
  3. The website reveals a different phone number for assistance with an online payment transaction. Hurrah. It’s (212) NEW-YORK, which actually gets you to a general catch-all help line, with some very helpful humans at the other end.
  4. They provided me with a phone number (718 935 0096) which is an automated payment system. As with the online system, no record of my violation is found.

It’s been 2 business days since the violation, and I have 20 days in which to pay. I’m going to wait a little longer for it to show up in the system.

]]> By: Nick http://rooreynolds.com/2007/02/06/parking-ticket-i-didnt-even-know-they-had-hydrants/comment-page-1/#comment-2833 Nick Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:33:10 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/2007/02/06/parking-ticket-i-didnt-even-know-they-had-hydrants/#comment-2833 Maybe thats what Sting was trying to warn us about? Maybe thats what Sting was trying to warn us about?

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