Aggravating incident resurfaces from distant past

[robotech_master]

Oh, for crying out loud.

Over a year ago—Thanksgiving, 2011, I believe—I was visiting my brother in St. Charles, along with my parents, when I got a ticket for parking in a handicapped spot, even though I had a hang tag on my mirror in plain view. I called the traffic court and complained, and they said to send them a photocopy of the hang tag and they'd dismiss the ticket. I did, and thought no more about it. I can't remember whether I received a response or not, but I thought I did.

Today, 18 months later, I got a letter from a collection agency for the $102 amount of the ticket.

I no longer have the correspondence or the hang tag (which expired and I did not renew; actually I don't know whether the tag is still hanging around in a box of stuff from out the car but with my luck it probably got tossed during the great room-cleaning effort a couple months back). They never contacted me about this matter at all during the time I still did. And given that I phoned them rather than wrote them, it will be hard to prove.

This is terribly annoying.

Comments

[masonk.livejournal.com]

You can probably get a note from the doc that prescribed the tag, worse comes to worse. I'd suggest contacting the court again and tell them the full story. Don't bother with the collection agency on that; they have no authority to do anything but collect moneys.