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We are still being bothered over the twenty year old tickets. I want my husband to just shred all notices and throw them in the trash and say "Forget it!"" Even the lawyer said it is not a huge enough amount for them to seek a judgement in our town. It's a huge amount to us though. I'm tired of scurrying around like a monkey for every jerk-off that threatens me constantly. I may be doing legal work again to try and deal with this mess. I may be writing petitions based on the doctrine of laches. I may also write a motion to have it set aside. This means more money for me because each petition costs at least 20 dollars.
He wrote to get the records of the tickets, and I can tell they hastily scribbled out forms that were not 20 years old because they were all in the same handwriting and looked "new" and looked nothing like the original tickets from the 1990s. Do they think we are stupid?
What does "responsibility" mean to destitute people? Are our worries going to fix our life? I'm tired of being asked to produce money that is not there! He is afraid of dire outcomes and kept going on about how they'd empty out our bank account and destroy our ability to pay rent. I told him they have to do a judgement first before the bank account is attached.
It scares me too, that America has grown so corrupt, that poor people will be pursued and harassed by lawyers even when there's no money in it for them. We are poor. They are spending money, to get money from people who have none!
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Your blog has been so helpful to me. I always wish I could just donate some money to help you out. I hope that doesn't make me into an evil project friend. But I know what it's like not to have enough money and I know how stressful it is to worry about rent, food, gas and an ancient car. It's scary! If there's some way you ever set up so people can lend a hand to repay what you've given to so many, I'd want to help. If you had an email you set up and made a paypal account it could be totally anonymous, I think? I hope this isn't offensive. I just feel like, you do a lot for a lot of people - a million views ought to be worth something in return, right? - and I am one of those people who would like a chance to give something back. And just WOW about these tickets. It sounds like the insane IRS tactics that finally came to light some years ago.
ReplyDeleteThanks, no that doesn't make you an evil project friend. I will consider your advice. :) Well once I can figure the comic out or it's format, I plan to put that up here. I got to get cracking on it. I have to decide between xerox as a classic zine [140 pages though!] or trying to get it scanned. Thanks for saying I have helped you. :) Yes the tickets are insane, things are getting crazy aren't they if they are digging up 20 year old stuff!
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I did not pay back to those who harassed me in the past. I remember contacting attorney general of the state and local social services programs for poor people.
ReplyDeleteI also had a ticket for crossing the street too soon. My godfather agreed to pay the ticket and I paid him back. My ticket was paid off several months before the court date, so the department of transportation never pursued me. I hope you will find a right agency or legal system to prevent the city of Chicago from harassing you. Are you able to take legal actions against them? I opened a Gofundme account and got help by a few people. You should get more help from your online friends since you are more indigent. I will pray for you and your husband.
I plan to write legal petitions against this. It is insane. We may offer a lower counteroffer if I can't get the "fake" tickets wiped. We do not even remember him getting any tickets. He rarely drove at the time. The car was in my name even so something is screwed. On two tickets they say we owned a "ford" and on another it says "chevy", the numbers are all screwed up. Also too we have legal recourse based on the fact that 20 years later, we could have paid them and have no legal or other possible ability to dig up 20 year records. Too many weird things are happening.
DeleteI read your original post. You can't be serious in thinking your family has you on some 'harassment' list! I think you're joking, right...?
ReplyDeleteAlso, the $ from parking tickets goes to pay for government services - of which you partake, yes?
Did you just not read the parking signs? Don't you have handicapped parking privileges?
We read the parking signs. Go to Chicago and see for how it is run. I was at work and with another worker who drove, and they towed a legally parked car. I always tried to follow parking rules. Many of these tickets we don't even remember. I don't believe these tickets are even legit. I did not have a handicapped sign then. No I did not disregard parking signs. You sound clueless about how parking works to generate revenue in big cities.
DeleteThe harrassment is a "THEORY", I do not know. Please explain to me why we are being so harrassed? At one point does legal harrassments, job-layoffs and possible sabotage begin and luck ends? It's a question I am pondering so quit being a complete asshole.
Yesterday something happened that appeared as harrassment but was clerical error, I wait and try to get all the facts. I decided not to post on how connected my family is because people may never believe it. Why wouldn't I ask these questions, they got 6 figure jobs right out of high school and college. One brother in law is going to be a state senator soon. If you had a family where they got jobs like this and never wanted for a dime, wouldn't you ask questions like this?
http://fivehundredpoundpeeps.blogspot.com/2016/01/bad-luck-over-and-over-or-sabotaged.html
By the way for your claim of parking immorality, I have never gotten a parking ticket since leaving Chicago in the late 90s. NEVER.
Do you think harrassment over 20 year old tickets [that we have no memory of] is right? Why?
dear a**hole anonymous - stop making the rest of us anonymouses look bad
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DeleteOMG! You are a narc! You are making fun of Peep. Please get off her blog. We don't care of the city wants to make money off poor people, if they are collecting revenues in an illegal manner. I will pray that Peep and her husband will win their cases so they will not have to pay exorbitant fees they do not owe.
DeleteThanks running gal. Chicago is notorious for corrruption and they are going to town teamed up with a corrupt law firm, to abuse people over 20 year old parking tickets. What scares me is many lost and gave up and some had lives ruined who still lived in IL and had their driving license taken away including one woman who drove for a living. I think what is happening is criminal. They are evil people. We have no way to even remember these tickets or even check to see if we paid them. That is what my legal rebuttals will be based on. I have noticed they are pulling crap too like saying people have to come in person or contest within a certain amount of days. Well we never saw or knew about these tickets even while living there. They make the money insane too. I think Chicago is a city full of weak people who accepted this. Where were their activists? That parking ticket geek website sucks too, he keeps writing roll over and pay it. Well not every one is rich buddy.
DeletePeep said: Why wouldn't I ask these questions, they got 6 figure jobs right out of high school and college. One brother in law is going to be a state senator soon. If you had a family where they got jobs like this and never wanted for a dime, wouldn't you ask questions like this?
ReplyDeleteMy comment: No, I wouldn't. Lots of families have successful family members. My first assumption would be "Wow! They've obviously worked very hard to get where they are, AND are very intelligent".
But, I certainly wouldn't be spending a lot of time being envious or jealous over it. I would instead be looking for what *I* could LEARN from them and probably work even harder. I assume people get where they are in life by not playing the victim and applying themselves.
Sometimes (most times) a spade is just a spade. *shrugs*
I apologize if this hurts, truly I do, as I enjoy your writing. Just wanted to give you an outside perspective.
LOLOLOLOLOL they worked very hard to get where they are...you got to be kidding me. My mother had no college degree and FLUNKED business college and got handed her job. My brother scams people for a living pretending to be a "charity" via legal loopholes.
DeleteI graduated from a Honors college within a university with a 3.45 or 3.5 GPA. My husband went to a good state school and graduated with a decent GPA, he was editor of one university paper. He had a book published in 2003 and worked 60 plus hour workweeks as a norm, working full time and being published in national music magazines. I had a 3.8 running at my paralegal program, and got awards as a juvenile home art teacher within community and when one student won a national art contest. I too when I was employed worked 60-70 hour workweeks. I moved to Chicago to attempt to move into social work ALONE. So you are going to give me the "you didn't work hard enough" spiel?
"Very intelligent" I would translate as they know how to screw people over and backstab their way to the top. In fact some used to be proud of their nuisance lawsuits and other scams.
Sure I learned a lot from them, I learned I didn't want to sell my soul to Satan for success in this world, and refused to sell out.
I guess it cost me real money. Well their rewards are coming in this world.
I can tell you are a narcissist, and one of them. Most of them did NOT work hard. One cousin got handed an internship in my narcissist uncles company. All one has to do is look at her Facebook to know she's boozng her way through college.
Thanks for the laugh anyway. You probably are doing quite well too. Who'd you screw over today? It seems you got some shopping to do or people to exploit rather then leaving rude messages on my blog. I can tell you are a narcissist. Seems it is a criteria for "success" in America.
Anyone trying to pan off the "work harder" crap, and who refuses to acknowledge what is happening to people is just another narc. pod.
By the way I can tell when a relative comes around here. Wonder which one it is. Quit drinking the Kool-Aid. They'll dump you too at a minutes notice once you disagree with one or hold a political or religious opinion they don't like. Good jobs can disappear.
As for "working hard", I do "work" that is meaningful to me even if it doesn't make money. My health sucks and I'm half dead but at least I didn't give up What do you think the painting and more is about? I guess I could be just another over-paid asshole paper-pusher, who cheated and screwed their way through life. Guess that's not me.
DeleteAnonymous? I think I'll call you Clueless -- that suits you a little better.
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>Also, the $ from parking tickets goes to pay for government services - of which you partake, yes?<
Technically, that money goes into the general fund, which could be spent on items, like, say -- fixing the sidewalks -- or more likely, the hefty salaries and perks that the fat cats at the top enjoy. Under Chicago's "strong mayor" system of government, there tends to be little oversight, and few checks and balances.
The point being, the city has lived outside its means for 20-plus years. If they really had spent the money for those tickets wisely, they'd hardly be chasing people down for tickets that 20 years old.
>My comment: No, I wouldn't. Lots of families have successful family members. My first assumption would be "Wow! They've obviously worked very hard to get where they are, AND are very intelligent". <
Uh, I doubt that's how most folks would play it in real life. Case in point: Micky Leigh, the far lesser-known brother of one Jeffrey Heyman, a/k/a Joey Ramone. The Ramones hired him to copy their music for lead sheets (which are required in filing song copyrights) -- and also took him on their early UK tours as a roadie, yet never publicly acknowledged either of those roles....which is why Mickey ended up in Birdland, the band formed by Lester Bangs (who felt equall frustrated, for lots of other reasons that we need not revisit here).
Since you've apparently never been in that spot, your comment is purely academic. But if you were, I suspect your reaction would be rather different.
>But, I certainly wouldn't be spending a lot of time being envious or jealous over it. I would instead be looking for what *I* could LEARN from them and probably work even harder. I assume people get where they are in life by not playing the victim and applying themselves. <
Actually, if you've ever spent much time around politicians -- as I have -- you realize two things: a) there's a handful of stars that would have succeeded anywhere, but b) the vast majority of them can barely get across the street, let alone add, subtract, multiply or divide....which is why most of them need to call in connections or favors to advance their careers. If you really believe that hard work had anything to do with that, I've got some swampland in Florida I'd be happy to sell for you for half-price.
Look at our current Vice President (Joe Biden) -- who almost flunked out of law school, and had to beg for mercy to be allowed to stay, which he did -- finishing at the bottom of his law class.
And that's far from the only example I could supply. The reality in America is that behind every great fortune is a crime -- because for most of the upper echelons, cheating, lying and scamming is standard operating procedure. It doesn't take a lot of hard work to create something like the Clinton Foundation, which does do a lot of good work, but also essentially functions as a giant slush fund for the former President and his wife.
>Sometimes (most times) a spade is just a spade. *shrugs*
I apologize if this hurts, truly I do, as I enjoy your writing.<
I'll go one further: "A pig is a pig that, and that's that, you know who you are." (The Plasmatics)
Now, go punch your ticket to the Clue Bus on your way out -- 'cause the memo has yet to breeze across your desk. Rats like you give us upstanding anonymizers a bad name!