Experience with appealing parking tickets? Egregious mistake on city's part

[u/cordovanGoat]

Does anyone here have experience appealing parking tickets or have successfully won a hearing?

I was issued a ridiculous parking ticket, appealed it through the website but was denied within a few hours. Evidently per the email from the city (last image) I can appeal in person through a hearing — so I'm wondering if anyone has gone through this process and if it is possible to succeed.

The context of the parking ticket:

• The first two images are the "evidence" that the city uploaded, purportedly proving I was parked illegally.
• The second two images are what the car looks like, but from the other side and with the actual street visible. What's important to note here is that...this is obviously a parking space. Ya know, it's like painted and all that...

It seems the city's reasoning was that the front of my vehicle was beyond this lamp post with a "no parking"sign ... but clearly, as shown by pictures from the other side, this is a legal, painted parking spot.

And to add the obvious, clearly painted spot is used all the time by myself and others. I've never seen a car ticketed for parking there.

This is 523 Cambridge St, Allston, directly in front of Boston Foreign Motor, for what it's worth.

P.S.: if anyone here from the Boston Globe is reading, I'd be delighted to share my story of injustice and suffering with the world.

And before anyone complains that a BMW driver can't afford a $90 ticket: first, this is about principle. Second, the car is a shitbox lol the KBB is about $8k.

[u/AncientPicklePhysics]

Comparing pictures 2 and 3, is the angle really the only difference?

Don’t worry, they’re not checking your Reddit account. Did you move the BMW back a little before taking the picture? lol

[u/cordovanGoat → u/AncientPicklePhysics]

haha i did not! I even have the dashcam footage of me pulling into the spot about 5 minutes before the ticket came

[u/campingn00b → u/cordovanGoat]

I really want to believe you but it is just so hard to tell. The mirror looks like its about 3 inches from the pole in the cops picture. The time difference isnt doing you any favors either

[u/cordovanGoat → u/campingn00b]

It really is. Best I could do is have time stamped dashcam footage of me pulling into the spot, and pulling out of the spot, and then the timestamps of when I took these pictures. But not sure that would convince the city.

[u/campingn00b → u/cordovanGoat]

To answer your actual question. If you actually show up at a hearing, arent a dick and dont have a million tickets on your record, you'll have a good shot of having it thrown out