NFL'er Josh Cribbs fights parking ticket on principle

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Josh Cribbs is fighting the law
Craig Lyndall, WaitingForNextYear.com


Josh Cribbs is a football hero in Cleveland, and now he wants to be a hero to those who have received parking tickets in Cleveland Heights. When Cribbs got a ticket last week and there were eight minutes left on his meter, he was none too pleased on his Twitter.

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He posted the picture above that shows his ticket with the meter in the background along with the following:

"Police in cleveland heights just wrote me a ticket & my meter had time left wow..smh can u say not Guilty lol"

The story didn't end there, though.

The $15 ticket would be cheaper to pay than contest, according to Cribbs' tweet this week. Maybe because he got paid this off-season he feels it is a good use of funds to fight the good fight anyway.

Two more tweets followed:

"So I'm going to contest my $15ticket in Cleveland heights, I just learned of the scam that's occurring, to contest is a $50 court cost.smh"

"I'm going to fight it 4everybody who gets a parking ticket b4 the meter expires & can't fight it bc of the court cost!!"

There is a reason that Josh Cribbs is one of the most popular Cleveland Browns players in recent memory.

Watch out Cleveland Heights parking enforcement: Josh Cribbs has a to-do list with your name on it. :)
 
I love the line in there where Cribbs is quoted as saying "I just learned of the scam that's occurring". That's gotta make the authorities over there happy. I think it is great that he is contesting this. I hope it does draw attention to this practice. How can you give someone a ticket they don't deserve and then charge them $50 to contest it?
 
Can't really see all the info on the ticket but holding up a ticket in front of a meter that only says 6 mins left doesn't really prove that there was time left when the ticket was written.He could have put some money in the meter to show some time then took a pic with the ticket.
 
mike honcho said:
Can't really see all the info on the ticket but holding up a ticket in front of a meter that only says 6 mins left doesn't really prove that there was time left when the ticket was written.He could have put some money in the meter to show some time then took a pic with the ticket.
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Not if the time on the ticket is readable in the picture. It appears it might be.
 
Benevolent One said:
Not if the time on the ticket is readable in the picture. It appears it might be.
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Blew it up, but even if it was readable the meter does not show the current time, only time left I believe, so you wouldn't be able to compare it.
 
Mopardh9 said:
Blew it up, but even if it was readable the meter does not show the current time, only time left I believe, so you wouldn't be able to compare it.
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That could be true. Either way, I think it is cool that he is fighting the ticket.

I had a coworker who got a ticket for his bumper sticking out, literally, about two inches over the edge of the sidewalk. He even saw the cop writing the ticket and ran over and asked if he could just back his truck up a couple of inches and the cop said no. He was really pissed off, so I told him he should pay the ticket in pennies. He went a step further and got $40 in pennies from the bank and opened every roll and dumped it all in a big bag and took it down there. At first they told him that he would have to re-roll them or pay the ticket another way. He told them what I told him ahead of time, which is, that legally, if they refused legal tender to settle the debt that they had no legal recourse to collect the debt another way. They took the pennies and I'm sure the @sshole cop who insisted on giving him a ticket for something so stupid heard about it from whoever had to roll all of them up.
 
Benevolent One said:
That could be true. Either way, I think it is cool that he is fighting the ticket.

I had a coworker who got a ticket for his bumper sticking out, literally, about two inches over the edge of the sidewalk. He even saw the cop writing the ticket and ran over and asked if he could just back his truck up a couple of inches and the cop said no. He was really pissed off, so I told him he should pay the ticket in pennies. He went a step further and got $40 in pennies from the bank and opened every roll and dumped it all in a big bag and took it down there. At first they told him that he would have to re-roll them or pay the ticket another way. He told them what I told him ahead of time, which is, that legally, if they refused legal tender to settle the debt that they had no legal recourse to collect the debt another way. They took the pennies and I'm sure the @sshole cop who insisted on giving him a ticket for something so stupid heard about it from whoever had to roll all of them up.
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I'm gonna do that next time I get a BS fine.
 
Insurance is the scam in MD.

You have to turn in your plates before you cancel your insurance on a vehicle. So, when I got my G5, I did just that. I went to the MVA, turned in my plates, got the receipt and took it to the insurance company. All was fine.

A couple months later, I got a bill in the mail demanding I pay $180 for driving an uninsured vehicle. They said I cancelled the insurance before I turned the plates in... and said I had two weeks to pay the fine or my license would be suspended (a process that costs another few hundred dollars).

I contacted my insurance company -- they sent them the verification and a statement. I sent them a copy of my receipt. Wasn't good enough... because the only thing that matters is what THEIR computers say:rolleyes: which, even then, should say the same thing the receipt THEIR computer printed out.

I ended up paying the fine.



Maryland also notified my employer that I got a speeding ticket in Baltimore on my day off... I actually got reprimanded for this at work (actually, I ended up getting fired because of this speeding ticket on a day off).

The mandatory auto insurance is a scam, just like mandatory health insurance. Force me to buy a product that will not cover me when I need it.
 
The meter maids in DC were doing this too......I worked at the State Department for a while after I got out of the USMC. I got several tickets with 10 or 15 minutes left on the meter.
 
Benevolent One said:
That could be true. Either way, I think it is cool that he is fighting the ticket.
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i did that once and all i got was court costs tacked on top of the ticket. there's a reason for that saying "you can't fight city hall".
 
SlowNeasy said:
i did that once and all i got was court costs tacked on top of the ticket. there's a reason for that saying "you can't fight city hall".
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I made a speeding ticket disappear fighting them once. I requested a delay before the first court date. Second date, I went to court ready to fight. Cop never showed up and never gave the court a written statement, so they made the ticket disappear.
 
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