Anonymous wrote:How can you "not reach the town?" Yiu can call their police dept or the state trooper office in the area. One of them issued the tickets. How do you think the "town" would have a record of this?

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Your NY State Driver License will be suspended if you fail to answer a ticket for a moving violation in any state except Alaska, California, Michigan, Montana, Oregon or Wisconsin. Your license will remain suspended until you answer the ticket.

https://dmv.ny.gov/tickets-received-another-state#:~:text=Your%20NY%20State%20Driver%20License,until%20you%20answer%20the%20ticket.

Wow it is such a mystery!

There is it. Looks like you will have to contact the town police or look up their website to see how to pay your ticket or fight it. Best to just pay it but make sure doing that clears everything up. Oh a DH can not drive till this is taken care of…he could easily go to jail if pulled over or gets in an accident.

Lol, you know OP's DH is out there driving right now, feeling entitled to park in front of fire hydrants any time he wants to run into a store and pick something up. Ugh.

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Anonymous wrote:A cop ran our plates this last week because we were parked in front of a fire hydrant for 5 mins (bagel run, rain). And told us that dh's license was suspended for failure to answer a ticket that we don't remember receiving from a town that we have not driven through in 2 years. We can't reach the town. How is this a thing? We are in 2023 - how is it possible to have your license suspended over a ticket you never even knew you had and a town you cannot reach.

This is the kind of thing that makes life not actually work.

I'm offended (as an ex high ranking fed officer) think how a "fed" could or WANT to deal with this!

Not in the mood to navigate your breaking traffic rules. We feds have enough to deal with!

-Crappy commutes
-Mice infested office buildings
-Expensive but terrible cafeterias
-Incompetent coworkers who will not leave because they will not be able to get away with they do anywhere else
-Crowded cubicles or even worse open concept offices
-Filling out timesheets every two weeks
-Required online training

Anonymous wrote:I've posted a couple responses already. But I took a beat and thought I might offer something more helpful-

OP, I get that this is frustrating. It is a real headache to deal with. You have to track down what happened, which will likely mean a bunch of time corresponding with this "random town." That is annoying. Some venting would be warranted.

But I do suggest you take a little ownership here, rather than questioning the legality of......enforcing public safety laws. Many of the details you include are really not relevant. You DID do something illegal by parking in front of the hydrant. You (most likely) DID do something illegal to incur the ticket and then again by not responding to it. Rain, the need for bagels, and the fact that you were outside NYC is irrelevant.

You say this is the type of thing that "makes life not actually work." But what would REALLY not make life work is if everybody ignored tickets and blocked hydrants when it is more convenient for them.

Anonymous wrote:It is always illegal to block a fire hydrant. There's no "five minute bagel run" exception.

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Anonymous wrote:A cop ran our plates this last week because we were parked in front of a fire hydrant for 5 mins (bagel run, rain). And told us that dh's license was suspended for failure to answer a ticket that we don't remember receiving from a town that we have not driven through in 2 years. We can't reach the town. How is this a thing? We are in 2023 - how is it possible to have your license suspended over a ticket you never even knew you had and a town you cannot reach.

This is the kind of thing that makes life not actually work.

yall need to start following traffic laws in your immediate family!

sure but no idea what traffic law we even broke in this random town!
also i should add that i was iN THE CAR during the bagel run. I could have easily moved the car. cop just gave me a ticket anyway. i guess bored.

If it is possible there is an error and you never received any notice of the ticket, you're going to have to jump through the hoops to prove it.

But of course it is legal to suspend a license over unpaid tickets. There needs to be an enforcement mechanism.

And I'm not sure why you think it being a "random town" has any relevance.

relevant bc if was nyc (where we live) it would be in the system and we would be alerted.
we never received this - had no idea it existed. seems insane to suspend someone's license over something they had no idea existed. and we are organized ppl!

You think other towns do not put things "in the system" and alert you?
As I said, it is on you to track it down and prove there was an error, if there was one.

But it is most certainly legal for a state to suspend a license over an unpaid ticket.

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Anonymous wrote:

Your NY State Driver License will be suspended if you fail to answer a ticket for a moving violation in any state except Alaska, California, Michigan, Montana, Oregon or Wisconsin. Your license will remain suspended until you answer the ticket.

https://dmv.ny.gov/tickets-received-another-state#:~:text=Your%20NY%20State%20Driver%20License,until%20you%20answer%20the%20ticket.

Wow it is such a mystery!

There is it. Looks like you will have to contact the town police or look up their website to see how to pay your ticket or fight it. Best to just pay it but make sure doing that clears everything up. Oh a DH can not drive till this is taken care of…he could easily go to jail if pulled over or gets in an accident.

Anonymous wrote:

Your NY State Driver License will be suspended if you fail to answer a ticket for a moving violation in any state except Alaska, California, Michigan, Montana, Oregon or Wisconsin. Your license will remain suspended until you answer the ticket.

https://dmv.ny.gov/tickets-received-another-state#:~:text=Your%20NY%20State%20Driver%20License,until%20you%20answer%20the%20ticket.

Wow it is such a mystery!

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Anonymous wrote:A cop ran our plates this last week because we were parked in front of a fire hydrant for 5 mins (bagel run, rain). And told us that dh's license was suspended for failure to answer a ticket that we don't remember receiving from a town that we have not driven through in 2 years. We can't reach the town. How is this a thing? We are in 2023 - how is it possible to have your license suspended over a ticket you never even knew you had and a town you cannot reach.

This is the kind of thing that makes life not actually work.

I'm offended (as an ex high ranking fed officer) think how a "fed" could or WANT to deal with this!

Your NY State Driver License will be suspended if you fail to answer a ticket for a moving violation in any state except Alaska, California, Michigan, Montana, Oregon or Wisconsin. Your license will remain suspended until you answer the ticket.

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Anonymous wrote:A cop ran our plates this last week because we were parked in front of a fire hydrant for 5 mins (bagel run, rain). And told us that dh's license was suspended for failure to answer a ticket that we don't remember receiving from a town that we have not driven through in 2 years. We can't reach the town. How is this a thing? We are in 2023 - how is it possible to have your license suspended over a ticket you never even knew you had and a town you cannot reach.

This is the kind of thing that makes life not actually work.

yall need to start following traffic laws in your immediate family!

sure but no idea what traffic law we even broke in this random town!
also i should add that i was iN THE CAR during the bagel run. I could have easily moved the car. cop just gave me a ticket anyway. i guess bored.

If it is possible there is an error and you never received any notice of the ticket, you're going to have to jump through the hoops to prove it.

But of course it is legal to suspend a license over unpaid tickets. There needs to be an enforcement mechanism.

And I'm not sure why you think it being a "random town" has any relevance.

relevant bc if was nyc (where we live) it would be in the system and we would be alerted.
we never received this - had no idea it existed. seems insane to suspend someone's license over something they had no idea existed. and we are organized ppl!