"I'm not saying you're lying..." But you are!

[2gigch1]

If and when it comes to court, tell the truth and call her a liar (and she moved her car). You are under oath. Do not be 'nice' for the sake of her feelings.

[LillFilly]

If and when it comes to court, tell the truth and call her a liar (and she moved her car). You are under oath. Do not be 'nice' for the sake of her feelings.

No, this one isn't the one who moved her car; that was a previous incident. It would have been simple if this woman had seen the ticket as soon as she got back to her car and came to the office, but she said she was halfway home before seeing the ticket under the wiper and came back, so she was no longer in the space I had ticketed her in. I don't mind so much people arguing, but don't call me a liar to my face. I don't see a cent of the tickets I write, but I put up with the hassle because it's the right thing to do. We just have to learn to pay attention and be aware of our surroundings.

[PepperElf]

Well, whatever it is, someone needs to do it. By my calculations they could prevent over 10,000 headaches per year upon their initial introduction.

iphone/touch ticket app? using the built in camera of course

[Dips]

We just have to learn to pay attention and be aware of our surroundings.

Quoted for truth!

She just wasn't willing to take the consequences of not paying attention.

[Argabarga]

Quoted for truth!

She just wasn't willing to take the consequences of not paying attention.

More than anything else, I wish I could say this verbatim to people, about half the folks I tow in knew they were somewhere they didn't belong and took a chance they wouldn't get caught and lost, the other half honestly didn't know because they weren't paying attention to the signs or using common sense and just can't get it through their heads that intent doesn't change the fact that their car was left somewhere where it wasn't allowed.

They go round and round with me forever about how we shouldn't of towed them because they "just didn't knoooooooooooooowwww!!!!! Can't you just let me go this one time? I'll never do it again!"

We aren't making a moral judgement, we aren't saying you are a bad person, but the only way you learn how to do things the right way in life is to suffer real and tangible consequence when you do it wrong. Letting it slide would mean you'd learn nothing other than you can do whatever you feel like, forget the rules, and just whine your way out of it later. Paying attention to your surroundings is something very few people do nearly enough these days, it's a basic self-preservation instinct that goes largely unused so often in our day to day lives that people I think now are honestly shocked when they're called out for not paying attention.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Yep, we all make mistakes and maybe it wasn't crystal clear (though it sounds like it was at least a doubtful situation which would have made *me* think twice about parking there, just in case)...but she should have just admitted her mistake and cut her losses. She's lucky she wasn't towed.

[depechemodefan]

My mom is handicapped (well, sick and old), and I printed out a form for a handicap placard and when we went to the doctor I got him to fill out his part.

So you can imagine how annoyed I get when people without handicap placards park in the handicap spot.

One time I went to pick up my mom from dialysis and a person was parked without a placard. I told the person (young guy) that he can't park there, it was a handicapped spot. I go in the clinic to see my mom and go out again before she was ready to leave (she had to leave by wheelchair) and an older guy was waiting for me and started a fight with me. He said he was handicapped, that was his car. I told him he needed to get a placard. MOre fighting and he ends with, "you did find a place to park, didn't you?!" I didn't get a chance to tell him, "Um, asshole, you or your young friend in the car could have found somewhere to park, you obviously can walk (ok, yes, there are people who can walk who are handicapped) so you can walk some to your car, while my mom is in a wheel chair and needs the accomedations to be able to have someone get her out of the chair and move the chair out of the way, which means the handicapped space is best for her since there is room."

But asshole finally left and I moved the car to the handicapped spot.

they "just didn't knoooooooooooooowwww!!!!!

That reminds me of an incident that just happened now. Guy was drinking a can of coke. I tell him he can't drink from an can in the library, only from a container with a lid. He tells me he didn't know that (like there arn't signs here everywhere about that ). so he continues to drink. I tell him either take the coke outside to drink it or throw it away. He told me I should give him some grace since it's the first time he ever been here Then he wants my supervisor so I called security to talk to him.

But I felt like giving him an analogy of him trying to park his car in his space and someone took his space. He tells the person that that was his spot; the spot-taker would respond with, "I didn't know, this is the first time I've been here," and not move his car. So how would coke drinker feel about that?