In a message dated 3/23/08 8:21:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I know there has been some discussion on the list about bogus tickets for
> litter being received months after the supposed offense. How have people
> handled them? I've got a hearing early in April and I'm wondering how to
> handle
> it. Any help or advice is appreciated.
>
>
Lorna, when I went downtown to the office on Filbert Street last summer to
pay one of those "sidewalk not litter free" or whatever tickets issued months
earlier, there was a long line, so I was talking for a while to the woman in
front of me. She told me I should go to court, not pay it. She said she
lives
at 20?th & Spruce and always goes to fight hers - she says she always wins.
She said anybody who bothers to go, wins. Her argument is always just that
it was probably someone else's trash because she doesn't leave hers out - and
since they don't seem to have any proof (they don't seem to go through the
bags to get something with someone's name on it, for instance) she says the
judge
lets people off. She was in line to get a court date for two of the
tickets, plus she already had an upcoming court date for a previous ticket.
They
wouldn't combine her two new ones with the date she already had, so she would
have been to Filbert St. to get court dates twice, and to court twice, for
the
3 tickets. I didn't have time to work quite so hard, so I just paid mine.
But, I don't think you have to work too hard, to win.
Let us know the outcome!
- Melani
Melani Lamond, Associate Broker
Urban & Bye, Realtor
3529 Lancaster Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
cell phone 215-356-7266
office phone 215-222-4800, ext. 113
office fax 215-222-1101
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