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I think a lot of the people getting these tickets would happily pay them in order to get the better spot. Plus there's all that stuff about diplomats just parki

I think a lot of the people getting these tickets would happily pay them in order to get the better spot. Plus there's all that stuff about diplomats just parking wherever they want because they don't have to pay tickets but that might've been fixed.

adgjlsfhk1 3y ago
just because they can't arrest you doesn't mean they can't tow the car (not legal advice, not sure if this is an act of war or not)
- bee_rider 3y ago
  NYPD has a lot of officers, I bet they could take a couple countries.
- Konnstann 3y ago
  In my experience in college where some diplomat's kid would illegally park his car almost every day, they will tow the car but the embassy will go pick it up and pay the fine so it didn't really matter to them.
wlesieutre 3y ago
Just hope you don’t end up like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk6xz4EmXBk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk6xz4EmXBk
bee_rider 3y ago
Premium parking.
bityard 3y ago
I have a friend who travels to the local downtown area (not New York) semi-frequently. He did the math and it turned out to be cheaper to accept and pay the occasional parking ticket than to pay the parking meter every time. So he just doesn't feed the meter. Apparently he only gets a ticket once every few years on average. I couldn't do it because getting slapped with a fine would cause an anxiety flare-up even when I knew the consequences beforehand. (And also I have worse luck than other people and can prove it with math!)
kevstev 3y ago
I tried this a bunch of years back, though across the river in Jersey City. I moved to a building that was an enclave of sorts that had zero street parking. You could of course pay for the garage to the tune of ~150 a month at the time. I had a motorcycle, and realized that I could park it across the street from my office building a few blocks away, and a ticket for street cleaning was $20. They would ticket me every other week, so $40/month in total. I guess someone got sick of my shenanigans despite me paying the tickets off promptly each time I received one, and one day my bike was taken to bike jail. Maybe some tickets blew off, but I think they were just done with me, and it cost me $500 to get it back. I sold the bike shortly after, I had acquired a serious girlfriend, and was using it for trips home and to the beach (both about 30 miles away), and there was no way I was going to make her sit on the back of a crotch rocket that long. However, I did pull a similar stunt in lower Manhattan for awhile too, though I moved my bike on street cleaning days- though to another illegal spot by my office building- at that point I was living in Battery Park and my office was right off the west side highway in Tribeca, and I never had a single issue doing that.

adgjlsfhk1 3y ago

just because they can't arrest you doesn't mean they can't tow the car (not legal advice, not sure if this is an act of war or not)

bee_rider 3y ago
NYPD has a lot of officers, I bet they could take a couple countries.
Konnstann 3y ago
In my experience in college where some diplomat's kid would illegally park his car almost every day, they will tow the car but the embassy will go pick it up and pay the fine so it didn't really matter to them.

wlesieutre 3y ago

Just hope you don’t end up like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk6xz4EmXBk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk6xz4EmXBk

bee_rider 3y ago

Premium parking.

bityard 3y ago

I have a friend who travels to the local downtown area (not New York) semi-frequently. He did the math and it turned out to be cheaper to accept and pay the occasional parking ticket than to pay the parking meter every time. So he just doesn't feed the meter. Apparently he only gets a ticket once every few years on average. I couldn't do it because getting slapped with a fine would cause an anxiety flare-up even when I knew the consequences beforehand. (And also I have worse luck than other people and can prove it with math!)

kevstev 3y ago

I tried this a bunch of years back, though across the river in Jersey City. I moved to a building that was an enclave of sorts that had zero street parking. You could of course pay for the garage to the tune of ~150 a month at the time. I had a motorcycle, and realized that I could park it across the street from my office building a few blocks away, and a ticket for street cleaning was $20. They would ticket me every other week, so $40/month in total. I guess someone got sick of my shenanigans despite me paying the tickets off promptly each time I received one, and one day my bike was taken to bike jail. Maybe some tickets blew off, but I think they were just done with me, and it cost me $500 to get it back. I sold the bike shortly after, I had acquired a serious girlfriend, and was using it for trips home and to the beach (both about 30 miles away), and there was no way I was going to make her sit on the back of a crotch rocket that long. However, I did pull a similar stunt in lower Manhattan for awhile too, though I moved my bike on street cleaning days- though to another illegal spot by my office building- at that point I was living in Battery Park and my office was right off the west side highway in Tribeca, and I never had a single issue doing that.