Re: Letter to Editor from Tony Wedzinga, July 4
I have also had the pleasure of receiving a parking ticket at health facilities.
As of late, they even charge the handicapped.
Late for my appointment, 15-below-zero, with no change, I didn't even bother trying to find change. I received a ticket.
pondered paying it and then, like Tony, I realized that ICBC had no right to release my name and address to a private company for any reason so I didn't pay.
I then received a notice that I may have overlooked it; still I didn't pay.
Along came a letter from a collection agency in Vancouver stating they were prepared to "aggressively pursue this collection" I refused to pay and the next notice was a threat to ruin my credit rating.
I wanted my day in court to explain to the judge that my name and address was received illegally and the company failed to make change available at freezing temperatures.
I never again had any correspondence from them and I assume it was too expensive for them to send someone up from Vancouver to go to court for 30 bucks.
Besides, the meter caretakers are changed on a weekly basis so they have no credible witnesses. You are going to the doctor--paying for that is as shameless as those old "pay toilets" in the train and bus facilities.
The city could collect tax money for the parking lot rather than build half a million dollar "bridges to nowhere" or dikes down the centre of our streets.
My advice, as the good fellas say: forget about it.
Mike Hawryluk
Prince George
