Wife Got a Parking Ticket in a home depot Parking Lot??

[MrJimi]

MrJimi
Why was your wife in Home Depot parking lot I thought they ripped you off a thousand dollars according to your other thread. Why would you contour to shop there ?

Unfortunately, she works there? I can imagine just what your thinking but she has 8 years there and not getting any younger

 

[Bird]

ticket was issued by jacksonville sheriffs office

Of course I don't have an answer for who or why. I am surprised that any officer would write a citation that far from the building, and of course I don't know just what kind of officer it was. Sheriffs sometimes are able to do funny things. It's not unusual for a sheriff to have "deputies" who are only authorized to work very specialized jobs and no other law enforcement duties. I have personally known of "guards" working for private companies who were deputized by the sheriff to do the job.

If you want valid answers, you would need to ask the sheriff (or at least someone in the sheriff's office) or the local judge. In Texas, if it were a citation issued by a deputy sheriff, it would go to Justice of the Peace court.

And, of course, while relatively infrequent, it is possible (not likely, but possible) the officer simply did something he was not supposed to do. As a lieutenant, I once had a patrolman who issued a speeding ticket on a shopping center parking lot. Yep, a young hotrodder being a real fool, but . . . in Dallas at least, the police had no authority to enforce a speed limit on private property. So I ordered the officer to go to the violator's home and retrieve that citation and apologize for having issued it. His ego wouldn't allow that, so he resigned instead and I considered it good riddance. And his sergeant had to go retrieve the citation.

 

[Bird]

A good friend of mine came out of a Home Depot in McKinney Tx. to find a curse filled note about his parking job on his windshield. The guy even finished his tirade with his name and phone number telling my friend to call him if he had the guts. (must have been real bad parking, I was'nt there).My friend showed me the note, I asked him if he was going to call the guy. He said " no, I'm just looking for the biggest, meanest biker/gang member I see and slip the note on his vehicle!!" to bad it can't work with tickets.

Jack, some places work harder at tracking down parking ticket scofflaws than others, but I've actually known of cases in which people who got parking tickets simply put the citation on the windshield of another nearby car in hopes the other driver would simply pay it without noticing that it wasn't issued to his vehicle. Of course if it isn't paid, the driver it was meant for might find his vehicle impounded some day.

 

[Bird]

There's another interesting phenomenon I learned as a rookie cop over 40 years ago. Usually, people get madder about getting a parking ticket that does not go on their driving record or affect their insurance premiums than they do about a speeding ticket that costs 3 times as much to start with (the fine) and goes on their driving record and increases their insurance premiums.

 

[WhyNot]

I believe that around here some local departments have gotten away from what they were formed to do which is to try and to protect the community they serve and have became a money making machine for these communities. To give an example there is a town about 15 min from here that is low income and crime ridden. The dept there has about 4 cars on the street per shift with no fancy police station or swat vehicles or command centers. The officers have no time to write tickets and to make enough money to pay for themselves and all the other extras. All they do (and don't take this the wrong way) is cost the tax payers money by locking up criminals and sending them through the court system which is what they wre hired to do "protect and serve". Now take the dept. 15 minutes the other way. It is a semi rural area with home that range from $300,000 to $650,000. They have the new station a car for every officer when that officer is not on duty the car sit's at the station. They have a brand new swat truck and commmand center 1 through ?. They have 2 officers each shift patrol about 3 miles of highway making money hand over fist. The other 5-10 officers patrol the streets making more money writing tickets. Now mind you they are just doing what they are told to but that to me is not what the police are for. Granted stopping speeders and such is protecting the community and they do get the occassional emergency call but there is no reason to have a dept. that big in this area but for one reason and that is to make money

 

[3RRL]

MrJimi,
I'm sorry to say that this is no laughing matter but after reading your other thread and then after all that to find out your wife works at Home Depot and then got ticketed, I started to crack up. Sorry man. Home Depot is just out to get you, I think.

 

[Bird]

I believe that around here some local departments have gotten away from what they were formed to do which is to try and to protect the community they serve and have became a money making machine for these communities. To give an example there is a town about 15 min from here that is low income and crime ridden. The dept there has about 4 cars on the street per shift with no fancy police station or swat vehicles or command centers. The officers have no time to write tickets and to make enough money to pay for themselves and all the other extras. All they do (and don't take this the wrong way) is cost the tax payers money by locking up criminals and sending them through the court system which is what they wre hired to do "protect and serve". Now take the dept. 15 minutes the other way. It is a semi rural area with home that range from $300,000 to $650,000. They have the new station a car for every officer when that officer is not on duty the car sit's at the station. They have a brand new swat truck and commmand center 1 through ?. They have 2 officers each shift patrol about 3 miles of highway making money hand over fist. The other 5-10 officers patrol the streets making more money writing tickets. Now mind you they are just doing what they are told to but that to me is not what the police are for. Granted stopping speeders and such is protecting the community and they do get the occassional emergency call but there is no reason to have a dept. that big in this area but for one reason and that is to make money

Of course there are good and bad in every profession, so yes, there have been bad cops who, unfortunately, give all cops a bad name. And as you said, there have been instance in which the local elected officials try to use traffic citations for budgetary purposes. Texas even has a state law that no city may finance more than a certain percentage of its budget through traffic fines. They can write all the tickets they want to; collect all the fines they want to, but all over a certain amount has to be sent to the state instead of kept in that town. It's just an effort to keep them from using the police only to raise money. And, of course, there are ample arguments for and against almost anything you can name. In most places more people are killed in traffic accidents than are murdered, and there's more dollar property damage in auto accidents than is stolen in burglaries. So what percentage of the resources should a police department devote to which jobs?

The little town I currently live in recently obtained 2 motorcycles and 2 new officers for the sole purpose of writing traffic citations. They even told in the news media that they expect them to pay for themselves in the fines collected as a result. Now as long as the officers are honest and competent; i.e., the people they ticket are guilty, I don't care how many tickets they write. If they write enough to pay for themselves and more, that's fine with me, but I'm sure a lot of people would disagree.

 

[MrJimi]

MrJimi,
I'm sorry to say that this is no laughing matter but after reading your other thread and then after all that to find out your wife works at Home Depot and then got ticketed, I started to crack up. Sorry man. Home Depot is just out to get you, I think.

I have to admit, I don't think hd had anything to do with one, its our sheriffs that wrote the ticket

 

[AndyM]

I park straddle of the lines- keeps nicks scratches and dents off the side of the car
from the yahoos who slam their doors wide open right into the side of the car parked next to them. ~~~

Yep...
It's always important to keep the 25 year old Dodge D-50 truck from getting any scratches in the rust!

 

[gemini5362]

Did the thought ever occure to you that he might have to go back to try an get the plywood or his money?

Did the thought ever occur to you that he already has his plywood that he bought somewhere else, or at least according to one of his other threads he does. If he went to get his money back I figured he might have mentioned that fact. But since you seem to be the fact police lets ask him if that is what she was doing.

MrJimi

Was your wife going there to get back the money that they ripped you off on your plywood.