Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 11-05-17 10:35 <=-

He claimed he wasn't responsible for his hundreds and hundreds of
dollars in fines because the car belonged to his grandmother in GA.

Yeah, right.... So... he thought that she should be paying those
tickets....? Or did he think that nobody would able to be charged
for them...? Rather irresponsible of him in any case....

He thought being a football player he wouldn't have to pay the fines
and that somehow his grandmother should be responsible since the car in her name.

Legally, I guess he was right, since the car was in her name, she'd be
the one that would be gone after eventually, were they not paid.... but morally, he had the use of the vehicle, so it really was his
responsibility, football player or not... :)

That's what a lot of people have said. I would have to edit it a
good deal since we had sneaky ways of finding out information.

Change the names to protect the guilty/innocent, eh....?

The vast majority of the time I never knew their name, or it has
passed out of my memory long ago.
The events are remembered, but not the names.

Makes sense, actually... :)

Nothing could be found linking that car to any student/employee. But
eventually we would often find some paper work IDing the car: a bill,
receipt, envelope, etc laying in the car somewhere, etc.

Considering that people are careless and overconfident, even mentioning
that in the book wouldn't likely change their behaviour...

Nah, some people might become more careful. I would rather the
guilty continue in their innocence believing we aren't smart enough to have "a real job".

I suspect that there wouldn't be that many that would become more
careful... and besides, the current crop of culprits are probably not
all that likely to be reading the book anyway.... :)

trimmers were close to her and asked for her name and number to call
her. She gave the information. Back at the office she was put on
financial hold for close to $1000.

Now that WAS sneaky... but perfectly legitimate... And a nice
coincidence that the tree trimmers were there, in sight...

Bev was really good at finding out things.
At Marshall almost everything includes one's 901 ID number
(students, faculty and staff). She would casually ask during a conversation "901 number please" and and the person would give it
without thinking. They were really busted then since she knew just by that who the person was, regardless who the car was registered to.

And the person would probably never know that they were had at that
moment, because she did it so innocently... ;)

One time we had a regular who drove a late model upscale car who
owned a ton of money. We could never track down that car since leased
in someone else's name, unable to connect it to anyone, etc. Even the cops got interested in this. It was right at the end of the fall
semester and she was graduating a few days later in December. Well, we thought for sure she had fallen through the cracks until she needed a transcript and found she had to pay all this money before she could get that.

You guys knew her by sight... and she filled in the rest of the details,
eh...?

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Nancy wrote --

morally, he had the use of the vehicle, so it really was his responsibility, football player or not... :)

If we were writing a ticket and the violator appeared or got our attention, we stopped and they got away.
One day I was ticketing "football row" at the stadium where the players parked, legal and not.
Suddenly I heard someone yelling, stopped, looked around and saw no one so went back to writing the ticket. A few seconds later heard yelling again and still no one around.
The third time it happened I looked up and nearly the entire football team was leaning over the top of the stadium yelling at me. They had been running up and down the steps from the field to the top in some sort of training. I smiled, waved and went back to knocking out over a dozen cars in a few minutes.
:)

Well, we thought for sure she had fallen through the cracks until she needed a transcript and found she had to pay all this money before she could get that.

You guys knew her by sight... and she filled in the rest of the details, eh...?

When the cops got involved they had her information and attached to the tickets.
Joe


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Joe,

Well, we thought for sure she had fallen through the cracks until she

needed a transcript and found she had to pay all this money before she could JM>get that.

You guys knew her by sight... and she filled in the rest of the details eh...?

When the cops got involved they had her information and attached to the
tickets.

I'll bet it took her longer than she figured to graduate...having to
rustle up the funds to pay the fees first. :P

Daryl

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Daryl wrote --

When the cops got involved they had her information and attached to

the tickets.

I'll bet it took her longer than she figured to graduate...having to rustle up the funds to pay the fees first. :P

No, she had that piece of paper, but she had to pay to get the needed transcript.
Joe


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Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 11-08-17 08:03 <=-

If we were writing a ticket and the violator appeared or got our attention, we stopped and they got away.

So they knew they might have a grace period.... ;)

One day I was ticketing "football row" at the stadium where the
players parked, legal and not.
Suddenly I heard someone yelling, stopped, looked around and saw no
one so went back to writing the ticket. A few seconds later heard
yelling again and still no one around.
The third time it happened I looked up and nearly the entire
football team was leaning over the top of the stadium yelling at me.
They had been running up and down the steps from the field to the top
in some sort of training. I smiled, waved and went back to knocking
out over a dozen cars in a few minutes. :)

Just a little far away for the grace period to apply.... ;) No way to
know which player yelling belonged to which legal or illegal park... ;)

Well, we thought for sure she had fallen through the cracks until she
needed a transcript and found she had to pay all this money before she
could get that.

You guys knew her by sight... and she filled in the rest of the
details, eh...?

When the cops got involved they had her information and attached to
the tickets.

Ah... and no payee, no transcript... ;)

ttyl neb

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Nancy wrote --

JM>> When the cops got involved they had her information and attached to
JM>> the tickets.

Ah... and no payee, no transcript... ;)

And that debt stays in the system until its settled.
We had a woman who in the office complaining about a financial hold on her account from something like 15-20 years before. She needed to take some class or the other. She was surprised she had to be pay that before she could enroll
again. (And at no interest).
Joe


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Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 11-13-17 06:50 <=-

When the cops got involved they had her information and attached to
the tickets.

Ah... and no payee, no transcript... ;)

And that debt stays in the system until its settled.
We had a woman who in the office complaining about a financial hold
on her account from something like 15-20 years before. She needed to
take some class or the other. She was surprised she had to be pay that before she could enroll again. (And at no interest).

Bad news, good news... ;) 20 years interest would have really stacked
up.... ;) But I bet she thought it would have been forgotten by then...

ttyl neb

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Nancy wrote --

JM>> on her account from something like 15-20 years before. She needed to
JM>> take some class or the other. She was surprised she had to be pay

that before she could enroll again. (And at no interest).

Bad news, good news... ;) 20 years interest would have really stacked up.... ;) But I bet she thought it would have been forgotten by

then...

It is so common for people to think there is no record of any ticket that's written. Not true. All of them, even the paper ones, are in the computer. (The paper has to be put in manually, the ticket writer automatically downloads, sorts, etc.)
People seem to think just throwing the ticket away the ticket fairy comes along and takes it to neverland or something. Unless wet and soggy (rainy days) those are collected and returned to the office with a coded notice attached "FOG" (found on ground) and recorded. In very rare instances the ticket could have blown off, but 99.9 per cent of the time the violator threw it on the ground. One cop (now deceased) wanted to get the information on the person and fine them for littering. :)
One day I watched as a driver got in her car, turned on the wipers (sunny day) and after a few swipes it fell off and she went on her way. I couldn't help but laugh.
Then the time this girl put her paper cup of pop (or whatever) on the roof of
her car while she opened it, put in her books, etc. I was a few rows away on a
large metered lot. She then opened her sun roof, slowly backed out and pulled away, the cup still on the roof.
At the corner a few yards away she turned unto the street, and the cup disappeared down the open sun roof. LOL
Joe


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Joe,

And that debt stays in the system until its settled.
We had a woman who in the office complaining about a financial hold on her
account from something like 15-20 years before. She needed to take some cla JM>or the other. She was surprised she had to be pay that before she could enr JM>again. (And at no interest).

The tagline below is appropriate.

Daryl

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Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 11-15-17 06:16 <=-

on her account from something like 15-20 years before. She needed to
take some class or the other. She was surprised she had to be pay
that before she could enroll again. (And at no interest).

Bad news, good news... ;) 20 years interest would have really stacked
up.... ;) But I bet she thought it would have been forgotten by
then...

It is so common for people to think there is no record of any ticket that's written. Not true. All of them, even the paper ones, are in
the computer. (The paper has to be put in manually, the ticket writer automatically downloads, sorts, etc.)

And an obviously wrong assumption on their side... of course there would
be a record... if nothing else, the paper ones would have had a carbon
or the equivalent....

People seem to think just throwing the ticket away the ticket fairy
comes along and takes it to neverland or something. Unless wet and
soggy (rainy days) those are collected and returned to the office with
a coded notice attached "FOG" (found on ground) and recorded. In very rare instances the ticket could have blown off, but 99.9 per cent of
the time the violator threw it on the ground.

They probably think they'd be able to claim never getting it, so how
could they possibly be expected to have paid it...

One cop (now deceased) wanted to get the information on the person
and fine them for littering. :)

That would be a proper comeuppance....

One day I watched as a driver got in her car, turned
on the wipers (sunny day) and after a few swipes it fell off and she
went on her way. I couldn't help but laugh.

She probably didn't realize anyone was watching... ;)

Then the time this girl put her paper cup of pop (or whatever) on
the roof of her car while she opened it, put in her books, etc. I was
a few rows away on a large metered lot. She then opened her sun roof, slowly backed out and pulled away, the cup still on the roof.
At the corner a few yards away she turned unto the street, and the
cup disappeared down the open sun roof. LOL

I bet she wasn't laughing.... <G> Had it been her phone, though, I'm
sure she would have been glad that it fell into the car instead of
flying off somewhere else, never to be found.... ;)

ttyl neb

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