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Worth bothering to dispute a pay & display ticket?

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Mongrel

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Was at Sunnybrook this morning (free city parking doesn't apply there, but it's a city ticket).

When I got back, my receipt was gone and a parking ticket was in its place. Maybe someone took it, maybe I just didn't put it on securely enough and it blew away, whatever. Either way, it was gone.

Shoulda parked free on the boulevard. Saw a bunch of bikes all lined up neatly, but didn't want to risk it given the very recent crackdown. On the other hand, when I came out those bikes were all still unticketed, so maybe they turn a blind eye to that there? Anyway, doesn't matter now.

I'm not really one of those guys who's gonna go RARRGH FIGHT THE POWER over $30 (now $50, that might get me fightin'... haha), so should I bother contesting it or is it just suck it up buttercup?
 
If you didn't have the good sense to take a receipt or use a credit card to pay just suck it up
 
$30 backs? and your "my receipt was gone"?...

I think, don't even bother - you will just waist your time.
 
Macs said:
If you didn't have the good sense to take a receipt or use a credit card to pay just suck it up
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Yeah, I just threw in a toonie. I was in a hurry and I hate ****ing around with credit cards at a parking meter. The receipt at these machines IS the pay and display ticket (unless it spit out something else and I didn't notice? I don't think so?)

Not too PO'd or anything. I've had enough free parking in Toronto over the years that I think of a ticket every year or two as the "cost of doing business". But that doesn't mean I want to pay $30 if I don't have to! Oh well.
 
Mongrel said:
Yeah, I just threw in a toonie. I was in a hurry and I hate ****ing around with credit cards at a parking meter. The receipt at these machines IS the pay and display ticket (unless it spit out something else and I didn't notice? I don't think so?)

Not too PO'd or anything. I've had enough free parking in Toronto over the years that I think of a ticket every year or two as the "cost of doing business". But that doesn't mean I want to pay $30 if I don't have to! Oh well.
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It spits out one ticket which splits down the middle, one for the vehicle and one as proof of payment.
 
Most pay and display things are one piece of paper, half is the display part, half is the receipt. You are supposed to rip it in half and only leave the display part.
 
Haha. I don't own a car, so I don't normally use those things. I thought it looked bigger than usual, but again I was in a hurry. Oh well, $30 stupid tax it is then.
 
Live & learn. It's going to be more of a hassle in terms of time and other fuel and parking costs to fight this. Really it's less than a night out on the town.
 
BlackBeast said:
Live & learn. It's going to be more of a hassle in terms of time and other fuel and parking costs to fight this. Really it's less than a night out on the town.
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+1.
Just know for next time.

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I would just pay the ticket. I went to Sunnybrook in my car and even asked the staff if I had my disability parking permit in the window if I still had to pay for parking while parked in the disability spot (I don't have to pay when parking on the street) and they told me I didn't have to pay. I went to my appointment and when I got back, I had a $30 ticket. I went to the ticket office at Sunnybrook and explained what happened and they voided the ticket and just charged me for the time I was parked there. I believe it was about 3 hours or less and I still had to pay $23. Unless you are concerned about the extra $7, I would just pay the ticket and save yourself the hassle.
 
Sometimes the fine is less than the parking especially in the case of hospital parking
 
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