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In article <2s5hk4$ouo@unix1.circ.gwu.edu>,
Patrick Geraghty <pd411x@unix1.circ.gwu.edu> wrote:

>1) on the subject of Marylanders getting parking tix in DC...if you don't
>park in DC very often, don't bother paying the ticket.  My old car (which
>my fiancee now uses and almost never parks in DC) has anywhere from 10-12
>tickets outstanding and I have absolutely no intention of paying them.  I
>can proably get away with this because they wrote down the wrong tag
>number on the tickets, but you should be OK otherwise because MD does not
>share DMV info with DC.  I think DC's parking laws suck rope and I

Yes, it is indeed true that Maryland will never find out about a parking 
ticket issued in DC.  However, I have heard recently that if you have two 
parking tickets unpaid and the cop is writing a third, that ticket will 
also be accompanied with a Denver boot.  I don't know if cops are now 
radioing in each ticket or how they are finding out on the spot if there 
is more than one unpaid ticket, or if this is just something they do at 
random.

DC parking laws are abominable.  I parked in front of a sign that said 
"No parking Tuesdays due to street cleaning."  I parked right in front of 
that sign on Wednesday, thinking that since Wednesday was not Tuesday 
that I was legal.  Wrongo, buddy!  I got a ticket for parking too close 
to the intersection!!  Apprently there is a selecively enforced 
regulation that states one cannot park within 40' of an intersection.

Needless to say, I will join you and the thousands of others and not pay 
that ticket.  I did, however, avail myself to the trial by mail system DC 
has for parking tickets.  If the 'judge' (I'm not sure what they are 
called in kangaroo court) does not see my logic, that is too daggone 
bad.  I ain't paying that ticket!

With all these parking tickets written ($63 MILLION in 1992), I can now 
understand why our stupid Governor Schaefer wants to reincorporate DC 
back into Maryland.