Anonymous
Post 11/04/2023 05:29     Subject: How is this legal? Would love a fed to weigh in.
It seems so unlikely that OP would get no notice if the ticket OR the license suspension. Could the cop have entered the license wrong? I once got a random ticket from a place I had never been and after talking to a very unsympathetic person who just assumed I was lying or forgot or lent my car...realized that the license plate must have been misentered as It was for a completely different type of car.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2023 01:49     Subject: How is this legal? Would love a fed to weigh in.
Anonymous wrote:It is always illegal to block a fire hydrant. There's no "five minute bagel run" exception.


This made me laugh.

But also it reminds me that parents on this board may want to caution their teens who are in (or heading to) university that, despite the party culture on most college campuses and newfound freedoms, there is likewise no “but I’m in college and everyone drinks in college” exception to the illegality of underage drinking. Proceed with caution.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2023 23:48     Subject: How is this legal? Would love a fed to weigh in.
Is OP a troll? OP claimed to live in nyc and every ny’er knows that you don’t block a mf’ing hydrant. Ever. You will get towed while still belted in and before you can crack open the door and shriek, “my bagels!”. And if you are unwise enough to do it outside the city, you wouldn’t complain about it.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2023 20:23     Subject: How is this legal? Would love a fed to weigh in.
If it was a camera ticket your tag can get suspended not your license. Parking ( non moving violation) would also be on your tags not your license.
Only way license can be suspended is if you didn’t pay the ticket or go to court for a ticket you are handed by a cop.
What do you mean “ you can’t reach the town”?
Call the Police Dept where the ticket is from and see what you need to do.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2023 20:06     Subject: Re:How is this legal? Would love a fed to weigh in.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


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.


what is the worst case scenario here?
someone needs a hydrant and then they can easily get to it because we were IN THE CAR.


You car could fail or run out of gas. You don’t block hydrants.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 10:26     Subject: Re:How is this legal? Would love a fed to weigh in.
OP has not returned because this thread did not go as their entitled mind imagined it would. OP will forever believe they were wronged.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 10:23     Subject: Re:How is this legal? Would love a fed to weigh in.
Anonymous wrote:What "FED" are you talking about? The FBI???


DoJ civil rights will get right on hubby's traffic ticket
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 10:21     Subject: Re:How is this legal? Would love a fed to weigh in.
What "FED" are you talking about? The FBI???
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 10:19     Subject: How is this legal? Would love a fed to weigh in.
Anonymous wrote:It is always illegal to block a fire hydrant. There's no "five minute bagel run" exception.


Exactly. Hard to drum up sympathy as it seems it's a pattern with you and your husband.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 10:17     Subject: How is this legal? Would love a fed to weigh in.
We had a pedestrian hit in the strip mall near my house. A kid and their mom were crossing in front of an SUV that was "parked" illegally in a fire lane in front of a grocery store. The car that hit the pedestrian couldn't see the peds because of the SUV blocking the line of sight. Both cars got ticketed but obviously the one who hit the ped was the one in trouble. I like how these stalled/parked cars in fire lanes think they're more important than everyone else and they don't need to be in parking spots.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 10:16     Subject: How is this legal? Would love a fed to weigh in.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


The cop did you a huge favor. If your husband were out speeding and got pulled over and they discovered the suspended license, he likely would have been arrested.


This happened to a friend of mine- didn't knows license was suspended because he failed to respond to a prior summons; pulled over for speeding. Then because he was speeding by some delta over the limit (I think going more than 15 to 20 MPH over) he got criminally charged and lost a job offer a few years later when it showed up on his background check.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 10:13     Subject: How is this legal? Would love a fed to weigh in.
Hallelujah a cop actually ticketed for this! What station? I'd like to send them a box of donuts.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 10:13     Subject: How is this legal? Would love a fed to weigh in.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


You illegally parked in front of a fire hydrant. Do you think the fire truck should stop and wait for you to move while a building burns? Pay your fines.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 10:12     Subject: Re:How is this legal? Would love a fed to weigh in.
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Good! Looks the the mechanism of keeping unsafe drivers off the road is working!
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 00:15     Subject: How is this legal? Would love a fed to weigh in.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sounds deserving. Just because it's raining doesn't excuse you from parking at a hydrant for a non-emergency.


+1 you sound very entitled OP. A bagel run is not an emergenc. If you don't want to park legally and get wet, stay home.

No idea what "feds" has to do with any of this!



EXACTLY! I was a fed and in charge of multi million dollar programs. I didn't do traffic tickets for friends!