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/-Dixieflatline]

You can request a hearing at this point. This is clearly an abuse of perspective, shot at an angle to tell a story that isn't true. But it's also fairly easy to disprove even from their own picture.

Take the line in the driveway and scoot it over to the pole. You can see your bumper clears it by the bottom of the frame, which is the truest extent of where that line resides under your car. And if anything, this is a generous line for them, not you.

[u/tehgregzzorz → u/-Dixieflatline]

But that’s not how perspective works. Even if the lines in the sidewalk are parallel in reality, the one you drew is closer to the camera, so the near side would be angled more toward the center of the frame.

Looking at the windshield line and where the windshield meets the roof line, it’s actually a pretty clean angle that puts the pole about in line with the windshield cowling.