{"id":5321,"date":"2013-10-02T13:22:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T17:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myparkingsign.com\/blog\/?p=5321"},"modified":"2024-05-27T06:55:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T10:55:07","slug":"parking-ticket-murder-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myparkingsign.com/blog\/parking-ticket-murder-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"How you can get away with (parking ticket) murder in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5322\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myparkingsign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/multiple-tickets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5322\" class=\" wp-image-5322    \" alt=\"In Seattle, violators ignore parking tickets at no risk (via Rolling Out)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myparkingsign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/multiple-tickets-300x224.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Seattle, violators ignore parking tickets at no risk (via <a href=\"https:\/\/rollingout.com\/2013\/07\/13\/avoid-parking-tickets-with-this-new-app\/\">Rolling Out<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More than two years after declaring a get-tough stance on parking-ticket deadbeats, Seattle finds violators are winning the war.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers don\u2019t favor the city. According to data compiled from a public records request by local media outlet KING 5, more than 10,000 drivers or businesses since August 2011 have three or more unpaid parking tickets.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Of that group, 502 vehicle owners have ten or more outstanding tickets.<\/li>\n<li>Together, that subset represents a combined total of 9,077 unpaid tickets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Parking ticket? Just ignore it.<\/h2>\n<p>Sophia Phillips, the most egregious offender, has 146 outstanding citations. Former neighbor Scott Howe said Phillips would habitually park in a loading zone in front of his office window in the city\u2019s Capitol Hill neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019d stay there all day long\u2014come and go, actually\u2014and leave the ticket on the windscreen and park back where she was,\u201d he told KING 5.<\/p>\n<p>Another witness says he watched Phillips crumple tickets on her windshield. Phillips claims that Kaleidoscope Vision, the vintage clothing shop she owned on 10<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue, had no parking, and she was forced to hunt for spots in parking-poor Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the almost 150 tickets she has yet to pay off are \u201cweird and embarrassing,\u201d Phillips told KING 5, and she\u2019s working with local courts to find a way to settle them. Phillips has also since sold her car in an attempt to avoid future tickets.<\/p>\n<h2>Vehicle re-registration: a parking bait and switch<\/h2>\n<p>Besides flagrantly ignoring the citations they\u2019re issued, how else do sneaky drivers get around parking tickets? One method requires a partner in crime: Motorists with numerous tickets can simply register their vehicle under a different name. For instance, the guilty party can show up at a licensing office with someone else and re-register under that person\u2019s name. The \u201cnew\u201d driver keeps his or her old license plate, but the new registration wipes the slate clean so that the so-called new \u201cowner\u201d can keep accruing tickets without paying off the old ones.<\/p>\n<p>Repeatedly registering a car under different names also removes it from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattle.gov\/police\">Seattle Police Department<\/a>\u2019s (SPD) list of vehicles in its boot program, so named after the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wheel_clamp\">wheel clamp<\/a> affixed to cars with four or more unpaid tickets. Autos given the boot can\u2019t move until the owner arranges to pay the tickets.<\/p>\n<h2>Out-of-state vehicles never get the boot<\/h2>\n<p>Yet another loophole exists for those who would otherwise be subject to the boot: Vehicles with out-of-state license plates cannot be legally booted, no matter how many tickets have been issued to the driver. The SPD has lobbied to close the holes in city and state law but has so far been unsuccessful in its efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some people who have been very good at maneuvering through the system,\u201d SPD parking director William E. Edwards told KING 5. \u201cNow they\u2019ve racked up hundreds of tickets and are still able to drive and park on city streets without any real consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether Seattle can strengthen its regulatory and enforcement muscles remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-products\">\n<h3>Like this topic? 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