Need help with an unjust parking ticket

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From: John Richards
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:07

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Earlier this year my car received a ticket for parking in a
handicapped parking space at Kaiser Permanente Hospital
in Vallejo. We had a temporary disabled parking placard,
but in my haste to get my dying wife to her oncologist appointment,
I forgot to display the placard. When I got back to the car,
Vallejo police had ticketed it. I followed the appeals procedure
spelled out on the back of the ticket, and included a photocopy
of the disabled parking placard. Didn't hear anything more for
several months, so I talked to a parking enforcement officer
in the Vallejo Police department, and he assured me not to worry,
and that "These things take time." Meanwhile, my wife passed away
and I discarded the parking placard.
Recently I received the vehicle registration renewal notice from DMV,
and there was a $563 fee tacked on for a Vallejo parking ticket!
What can I do now? I can't seem to find anybody to talk to at
either the Vallejo Police department or the agency that handles
their parking tickets. I'm tempted to sell the car to a car dealer 
and buy another junker, but will that somehow come back to bite me?
I would appreciate any solid advice on this dilemma. 

-- 
John Richards

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