Imagine getting a notice in the mail saying you had an unpaid $154 parking ticket from a city where your car has never been. And no one in govt will answer your call, text, email, or meet with you

The ticket was made out to the same license plate number assigned to Barr’s 2018 Toyota Prius.

This ticket was entered on November 16th, 2023, at 6:37 pm for obstructing traffic or hazardous parking. “

Barr’s calendar shows she went to a doctor’s appointment that day, helped a friend recovering from a stroke and drove to another friend’s house for dinner.

“I’m in St. Petersburg and I have quite a few people who can say I was,” Barr said.

She says her car’s transponder even shows her Prius passed over the Pinellas Bayway toll bridge moments before the ticket was issued more than 250 miles away.

Records from the parking department also show the citation was entered to a while-four-door Ford, not to Barr’s Toyota Prius.

Though the govt is OBVIOUSLY in the wrong, and NOT working for society the govt SENT HER CASE TO COLLECTIONS! 

SO, since this went from nonsense to collections, to affecting her credit score, drivers license suspension, etc... 

She contacted the ABC Action I Team, who contacted a Miami-Dade court spokesperson last week who got the case dismissed but refused to give any explanation of what went wrong. The spokesperson says the credit agency will be notified that the case is no longer in collections.

"I'm not trying to get out of something I did. I’m trying to solve a problem of something I didn’t do,” Barr said. The Miami-Dade parking office offers people an opportunity to request a court hearing to dispute citations, but Barr said that would have cost her even more time and money.

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/i-team-investigates/driver-spends-months-fighting-ticket-issued-when-her-car-was-250-miles-away-ends-up-in-collection

What's the take away on this? 

The govt even at it's lowest most useless clock punching bored DMV bureaucrat traffic court level, does NOT give a fuck about right and wrong, won't lift a damn finger to help you and is only afraid of bad publicity getting in the way of their career advancement to a lucrative pension.