Today, my car got a wheel lock because I had 5 tickets. Three of those tickets dated back to 2006. I got my car and license in 2008. FML
I agree, your life sucks (16275) - you totally deserved it (1611)
On 02/03/2010 at 12:11am - money - by olyswimmer (man) - United States (Washington)
olyswimmer? hahahahahah i think we go to the same highschool! btw fyl :D
#39 - On 02/03/2010 at 7:04pm by brutallyhonest24
Well obviously there was an error. They go by license plate not vehicle. Go fight the boot.
#5 - On 02/03/2010 at 6:30am by pleasenopuffin
Considering the OP didn't say "Four of those tickets were from 06-07 (The last one had to be hers)," I'm going to assume that she in fact put two of those tickets on the record, and there were just no tickets from 2007.
#15 - On 02/03/2010 at 8:22am by just_me_tmp
lol, he also said he got his car and license in 08, so what about 07?
Man you guys are so smrt.
Two tickets in two years, still your fault man, should have gotten them sorted out.
#22 - On 02/03/2010 at 11:31am by SomeonethingStup
Yep Defntly Contest the Citation!!
Often this stuff happens and often the ne Reg Owners get thier cars back!!
In conclusion
Get er DONE!!!
#7 - On 02/03/2010 at 6:41am by Cristaderzi
This is why you ALWAYS switch the title. If you don't, you're responsible for any "surprises" from the previous owner. YDI
#8 - On 02/03/2010 at 6:42am by murderofcrows
well if u have proof you could fight it off. depending too on the type of judge you get... you should always do background check if you purchasing a car from a stranger nd change your license plate which it's smart 2 do at the very beginning... hope all is resolved.
Bullshit. The vehicle would come up with a new owner, new registration. You got booted for your own tickets, not tickets before you owned the car.
Kinda like when I switched phone numbers and I keep getting calls for David. My name is Sara. Not a huge deal. I switched numbers because I kept getting 10-12 crazy calls a day from these weird foreignese people. I have no idea what nationality they were, but they would call from 8 different phone numbers and it was horrible. I think I would rather have the David phone calls though :)
#16 - On 02/03/2010 at 8:28am by just_me_tmp
exactly, if you're too cheap or lazy to go to the dmv and register your car then it's your own fault. you didn't have 4 hours in the 2 years you've had it?
#26 - On 02/03/2010 at 12:23pm by Hati4Skoll
YDI for getting at least 1 ticket -- YDI for not correcting the issue when the police sent you a notice for outstanding tickets when they received updated owner information from the courthouse -- or YDI for not properly making a change of title request to the courthouse.
#17 - On 02/03/2010 at 8:54am by ozymandias
Does it mean two of those were still yours and that you hadn't paid for them? And seriously.. do they really track tickets by car, and not by driver? Smells like a fake
#21 - On 02/03/2010 at 10:42am by marc_with_a_c
A wheel lock is the boot they put on your vehicle's wheel so you can't drive it. You have to have seen it in a movie or something.
Tickets follow you on your record. so if you get 5 tickets on your first car, and don't pay them, if they scan the 3rd car you own they'll boot it.
#29 - On 02/03/2010 at 1:43pm by landonwoods09
right, but he got his license in 2008 too, not just his car.
#31 - On 02/03/2010 at 2:18pm by abradant_spoon
I don't get the comments about doing a background check when purchasing a vehicle from a private owner. Any time I have ever bought a vehicle from a private owner (which is a total of 6 including the 2 I've gotten for my wife) I was given a brand new license plate when I went in to pay the taxes and switch the title into my name.
You can't go in and title it in the older owners name, you have to show proof of insurance (if your place of residence requires insurance), your drivers license, the title and the bill of sale. There is no way that it would still show the old owner, they would run the plates (not the vin, assuming you HAD plates and that isn't one of the tickets you've gotten!) and those would be in your name. In two years the plates would have expired so you would have to have gotten them replaced, same deal, you have to show paperwork that identifies YOU. So unless you had no plates on it they would not have run the vin number. Your vehicle would have been towed a long ass time ago if you'd had it for two years with no plates at all.
It should be very very easy to fight this, but I am thinking this is a fake or a lie to cover his own five tickets. You are not responsible for tickets on the car, you are responsible for tickets that are in your name. The old owner's tickets are not something you would have to pay or deal with at all.
#32 - On 02/03/2010 at 2:19pm by WTFsGoingOn
In some states--dunno about Washington--the plates stay on the vehicle for the life of the vehicle. Delaware, where I used to live, was like that. Often, the plate is in the police database as having some huge number of tickets against it and the car gets booted or towed, and a subsequent owner suffers for it. He or she then has to go to the police station to prove those tickets belonged to the previous owner of the car in order to get the car back.
In a state like that, it's really important to get a notarized bill of sale when you sell a car, because if the new owner doesn't go to the DMV to register it, he can be driving around in what looks externally like a legal vehicle but the plates will come back to you if anything bad happens, and then the burden of proof will be on you to prove you sold the car.
#34 - On 02/03/2010 at 2:38pm by Ray_of_midnight
And if you check out the trunk, you'll find the corpse... there's always a corpse involved. I know
#35 - On 02/03/2010 at 3:07pm by me5
Same thing happened to my friend he bought a car with like 500$ in tickets and he had to pay them to register the car.
If it's not your parents car, it could be a stolen car. So you shouldn't get a wheel lock for those tickets.
#40 - On 02/03/2010 at 10:35pm by dontfearreaper
Did you buy the car from someone else? Did you change the license plate? If so, it could be the previous owner's tickets.
#42 - On 02/03/2010 at 10:51pm by Dragonmouth
This all just depends on your principles. If your fine with paying for a ticket that isn't yours then go ahead, if not then find yourself a lawyer and take it to court (which is damn expensive and would cost more than the ticket but as i said its all about principles that you have).
the poster is full of sh!t ... its illigal to boot a car in washington since 2004. in the towing industry since 2000.
#53 - On 03/17/2010 at 4:25pm by firebird91
