Good Idea to protest my parking ticket?

[MarkSummers]

Coming home from campus yesterday, I park on the street next to mine which I'm not very familiar with. I didn't see it at the time but there was a tall Handicap parking only sign on the side of the street which I couldn't see the top of through my windshield.

My roomate informs me today that I got the ticket and I go to get it from my car and move it. $195 ticket. Oh boy. This is my first ticket ever. Any use in protesting it to get it lowered? I understand this was totally my fault and I'm not denying that but I figure I have nothing to lose in doing this.

Any thoughts?

[sexdrugsmoney]

Some cripple was annoyed by your carelessness.

Pay the fine. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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[shant]

What is your protest argument going to be?

[theweatherman]

I doubt that they can raisethe fine (and by doubt i mean 'know they cant') so whats the harm in protesting it. Worst case senerio is you pay and your out the time it takes for a court date.

[sexdrugsmoney]

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I doubt that they can raisethe fine (and by doubt i mean 'know they cant') so whats the harm in protesting it. Worst case senerio is you pay and your out the time it takes for a court date.

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You forget the court fee.

[MarkSummers]

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What is your protest argument going to be?

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That I didn't see it. Weak, I know. Again, this was totally a result of my carelessness and I'm not trying to get out of paying the ticket. But $195 for a parking ticket is steep. I just want to see if they can bring it down.

[Iplayboard]

I just got a parking ticket on my campus the other day, although only for $30. I plan on protesting by not paying it.

[MarkSummers]

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I just got a parking ticket on my campus the other day, although only for $30. I plan on protesting by not paying it.

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This is a city parking ticket since I live off campus. $30 isn't much and i wouldn't have a problem with that. $50 is reasonable as well. If I don't pay this ticket though within 20 days, it goes up to $345 though.

I recently got an oncampus permit-only parking ticket. I can pay 15 dollars now, or supposidly, 50 dollars later. I'm wondering, what are the chances that I have to pay this? How would they ever force me to pay this campus issued parking ticket? Worse comes to worse, couldnt I just go to the campus parking office and negotiate a lower price?

[edfurlong]

I went to a state school and after ignoring my tickets I found that they were considerate enought to tack them on to my tuition.

On campus tickets that is.