So, on Sunday I was going through the mail and I found a letter from the Pierce County District Court. I opened it up and it was for a violation caught on a traffic camera. But there's a problem...
I haven't been in Pierce County in years, I've NEVER been to the specific part of Pierce County where the picture was snapped (Tacoma Narrows Bridge - the violation was a failure to pay the bridge toll), and the car in the traffic camera photo is one I sold to a Honda dealer 6 months ago as the trade in on my CR-V.
My name and address should not be coming up when they queried the ownership of the vehicle. I immediately fired off an e-mail to the dealership, and one of the sales managers looked up my phone number and called me within about an hour to personally let me know that they had filed all the papers, and they did a title check just to make sure that the car was not in my name anymore.
I've fired off a letter to the court, stating the facts and stating that I wanted to dispute the ticket by mail. I really don't think I need to burn a day going down to Tacoma to challenge this in person. But you never know. This could snowball into a bureaucratic clusterfunk. I'll be sure to complain very publicly if it does.
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Jeezus, some people are not smart eh?
good luck disputing the ticket, sounds open and closed to me
Too funny... My sister was complaining about getting one of those toll-failure tickets the other day too.
The difference is that she, over a 3-day weekend visiting us, failed to get on Highway 16 going the correct direction (East, Toward I-5, as ALL the signs clearly state) and took a field trip out to Gig Harbor... Now she swears she's never coming to Tacoma again.
I think the general driving public may be better off for it.
Check the contact info. There is a phishing type scam that uses fake traffic tickets.