Bizarre News of the Day
- Posted by Jennifer on October 17th, 2008
Santa Cruz man tries to make cents of parking tickets, tries to pay with 30,000 pennies
Jennifer Squires – Sentinel Staff Writer
Article Launched: 10/16/2008 01:31:11 AM PDT
SANTA CRUZ — Robert Havens, 74, had a first recently at the Lee Street home he’s lived in for nearly a half-century.
He got parking tickets.
Havens, a wiry retired tree-trimmer who wears a straw hat and loose Wranglers, has several vehicles that don’t all fit in his driveway. So he parks his motor home, dump truck and flat bed on the quiet neighborhood street off Emeline Avenue.
A city ordinance states vehicles parked on public streets must be moved every 72 hours — a rule to prevent people from storing or abandoning their cars on streets — and Havens said that’s a dance he’s gotten used to. He said he moves his vehicles every time a city parking officer or police community service officer marks his tires.
Havens had escaped parking problems until this fall, when he found three tickets on three vehicles after spending a long weekend visiting his son in Modesto. He claims he was only gone from 4 p.m. on a Friday to 6 a.m. Sunday, but in that time he racked up three $100 parking tickets.
He plans to contest the tickets, but the city requires people to pay their parking fines before an appeal hearing is scheduled.
So in protest, he tried to pay the fine in pennies Wednesday. Read More Here
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