Hey yo….Mother FUCK the PPA!! No parking between 3:30 and 6:30 pm on 15th block of Walnut?? Kinda shit in that? WTF is so important about that time?? Man..PPA can suck a fat dick and die slow!
I hate PPA, signed South Jerz
0 0
I paid for 3 hours at 12th street because the sign said 3 hour parking 7-10PM M-Sat. Apparently I didn’t notice that it went to 2 hour parking 10-12…..the sign had 2 hour 6 am - 4 PM, no parking 4-6 PM, 3 hour 6-10 AND 2 hour 10-midnight. How the FUCK are people supposed to decipher this bullshit. Fuck them. They are not getting a single red cent from me. The gave me two goddamn tickets for a total of 112 bucks
Fucking fed up!
1 0
The poop is nigh my little monkeys.
The time for talk is over.
0 0
i watch parking wars on a&e. i dont understand how a city can allow this to happen. come together people. It is like that because you as citizens dont take action i.e; vote.
wtf?
0 0
me too my burna is on hot and cocked-if u get near my car i assume you trying to jack me so boom boom. we bout start to a revolution FUCK THE PPA AND PHILLY tired of gettin strong armed by the city i live in
haha
0 0
start beating there ass when they give u a ticket. Im gonna pistol whip and kidnap that skinny nigga that keeps giving tickets on my corner.THIS IS A WARNING STAY OFF MY KORNER OR GET CRIPPLED —satan
BEAT DOWN TIME
0 0
THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR IS NOT TOLERATED IN MY CITY BECAUSE THE RESIDENTS DON’T ALLOW IT. WE RECENTLY GOT RED LIGHT CAMERAS AND AFTER 5 MONTHS OF THREATS AND NOBODY PAYING THERE RED LIGHT TICKETS THE CITY TOOK THEM ALL DOWN EXCEPT 2. THOSE 2 CAMERAS THEY LEFT UP GOT PULLED TO THE GROUND AND DESTROYED IN THE STREET. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN REPLACED AND NEVER WILL BE. IF THE CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS OF PHILLY DONT DO ANYTHING ABOUT THIS BUT BITCH AND MOAN THEN IT WILL NEVER CHANGE. PHILLY IS YOUR CITY NOT THE PPA’S CITY. PETITION THE MAYOR AND YOUR DISTRICT COUNCILMAN. FIND THE LAW FIRM THAT IS TOTALLY AGAINST THEM AND THEY WILL HELP YOU FOR FREE. ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS.FROM THE INFO I HAVE FOUND BY JUST SEARCHING THE WEB IT LOOKS LIKE THE PPA IS ONE OF THE MOST HATED BRANCHES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THERE ARE NUMEROUS PETITIONS TO SIGN. WHY IS THAT INFO NOT ON THIS SITE, WHY DONT YOU PEOPLE THAT FEEL SO STRONGLY DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. PAY ATTENTION TO LOCAL ELECTIONS OR RUN YOURSELF. DO SOMETHING, DONT JUST SAY SOMETHING. GOOD LUCK!
ONLY IN pHILLY
1 0
I rigged up a device that will spit fire under the window slot at the impound lot. I KEEP GETTING TOWED FROM MY JOB SITE. ppa FUCKED WITH THE WRONG ONE THIS TIME. IT IS TIME TO BE A TERRORISTS NOW. All YOU MOTHERFUCKERS BURN!!!!!!!!!!!
I got the topper of all all stories. I got a bogus ticket then sent an email to customer service rep giving them a piece of my mind and this asshole sent a letter to the president of my company with a copy of the email. The result was I got fucking fired from my job. The ppa is an evil organization that sole purpose is to fuck over the tax paying citizen. Heartless, merciless gaping assholes.
recentlyunemployed
0 0
i’ ll just pass it on to your mom,so please dont pray that hard
ppa writer
0 1
mass prayer this evening at 8 pm that PPA employees contract the aids virus.
Fraternal Order of Thieves
0 0
If you get a ticket or get towed , its probably
your fault. Don;t blame other people for
YOUR mistakes.
Anonymous
2 1
I paid for 2 hours in Chinatown and apparently deserved a 36 dollar ticket because I put the meter-tag on the driver’s side instead of the curbside.
Fucking assholes.
DTMFA
0 0
Dear Officer T Drinks,
If I have a multi-meter tag on my dashboard the says I am paid through 1:48pm, how did I get a ticket at 1:28? You are a waste of humanity and I hope you get an infection that resists treatment. As an organization, the PPA rakes in large profits, and yet it only seems to grows larger and hire more incompetent assholes. Thanks for raising the cost of parking during a recession. Cocksuckers.
Tried to follow the rules...
0 0
The “officer” (even though they’re nothing but a bunch of fucked up assholes with God complexes) marked down the wrong plate number on my ticket.
Will I have to pay this shit?
PPGay
0 0
I got a ticket less than 48 hours (Wednesday morning) for expired emissions and safety stickers on my car. Because I am a full time student, I did not have the opportunity to get my car checked out until the weekend, but alas, Friday morning, I got the same fucking ticket.
I hope these assholes can’t sleep at night, especially you, M. Schmincke and C. Oxford. Fuck you.
Dan
0 0
dear PPA scum
How does it feel to be the most hated people on earth you miserably fucks. Do the world a favor and kill yourself you worthless fucking cowards.
Fuck you
0 0
Philthadelphia Phucking Assholes.
Goddamn Sons of Bitches.
Go fuck yourselves.
Your Mom
0 0
In my West Philly neighborhood, I thought that some areas are two hour parking and some are not. Generally, I just steer clear of the two hour parking areas, but it was late I was tired and I knew I was leaving early in the morning. But, apparently it goes further. Some areas are two hour parking until 6 pm. Some apparently are until midnight? Some are on the weekends some not. What is the use of that other than to PURPOSELY confuse people into making parking violations?
Brian Brown
3 0
Apparently, there was a snow emergency declared when it snow/slush/rained this past thursday. My car was towed from Broad street (because that’s the evacuation route) and moved to a side street. I guess that’s fair, had I had any idea that there was an “emergency.” The thing that pisses me off is they also found it necessary to issue me TWO tickets, 19 minutes apart, for parking during said emergency at $76 a pop. WTF? I also cannot fathom how rain-snow that MAYBE accumulated 2 inches could possibly be considered an emergency.
suckit
1 2
Hello good day
Zdobaacn
0 2
It’s serious
Vvbxyzkm
0 2
perfect design thanks
Uqrmykeg
0 1
very best job
Ovraogjj
0 1
Dear PPA,
Go fuck yourselves.
Morgan
0 1
You’re going to start ticketing motorcycles & scooters for basically creating more parking spots for cars? Go fuck yourselves you greedy pieces of shit.
Brandon
0 1
no signs on the entire block since someone ripped them off the poles and apparently i was suppose to have guessed they use to be there and that they still count even though they were stolen
htg
0 1
I got you beat. I paid a new meter till 3:49 yesterday and sure as shit some douche bag named D Sampson wrote me up at 3:51. I was at my car as said douche was walking away from the scene. They’re stalking our cars, looking at the future expiration times and coming back just at the second we’re in violation. City of brothery love my asshole. Two minutes does not equal $38.50. I am a hard working guy trying to earn a buck and the bloated PPA is trying to squeeze every last dime out of us. I’m so glad I believe in Karma because the whole lot of them has it coming–bigmotherfuckingtime.
mr bill
1 0
$36 for a 10 min???? It was 7:55 and parked in a two hour spot. feed the stupid machine til 9:55. Time on ticket 9:59. Fuck you PPA
Jkel
0 0
This city is fucked up from top to down! PPA is fucked up, including that fucking judge as well. He fucking showed up at 10.30 am, give me a fucking break, even President bama starts working at 8am.
It is like everybody in this fucking city is working on a well planned plot to fuck up its citizens, cops to towing guys to traffic cort to judges to fucking PPA. everyone. period.
When i got pulled over the other day the cop got my car fucking towed. When I asked him why do you get my car towed away, his fucking reply was to make sure you pay your citation/ticket. I told him i can pay right now, why do you get it towed??? He fucking goes, well not everybody is rich in this city and not everybody has that kind of money to pay it.. Well fucking idiot, if it is the case, why do you fucking make it more expensive for that poor guy? TOwing my ass will cost another 200-300, stogae fee another 50, traffic court fucking fee another 175 and your fucking speeding ticket another 175…
As i said, this city is fucked up from top to down. Everyone is corrupt. City tax, wage tax, this ticket, that ticket.. My ass, ugliest city fucking ever i have seen in my life!
Your Name
0 0
Seriously fuck you! The “new machines” on the 200 block of market have been out of paper for 2 weeks. On top of that there is no sign from the machine that its out of order so you insert your credit card, which gets charged and never prints you a ticket to put in your dash. HOLY FUCK YOU SAY! NO fucking way! Yes fucking way! THE PPA IS FUCKING US EVERYDAY. AND GETTING FUCKED WHEN YOU DON’T WANT TO BE FUCKED HURTS.
Helpless people who get fucked, get mad.
Your Name
2 0
Meters turn off on Walnut Street. Meters stay on till midnight on Spring Garden. Walnut=tons of traffic and turnover. Spring Garden=ghost town minus Silk City.
Every so often I just want to remind the PPA that they can suck my asshole. Thanks!
MrBill
1 0
phillyparkingrevolt.com
admin
4 0
Hey PPA, just wanted to say thanks for your new ticketing strategy in Queen Village. I really love that you’ve decided to stop street cleaning and instead turn the street into 2 hour parking. I also appreciate the fact that you’re doing this with no notice whatsoever. It’s fun for me to park my car in a free spot and then find out that I’ve racked up 4 tickets 3 days later. At least give the meter readers a broom so they can do something useful while they’re out waddling around.
Green Man
2 0
Want to put a meter out of order? Rumor has it that if you cut a gift card (cutting off your name of course) and shove it in the slot (the slot that looks like a credit card) that it will put the meter Out of Order.
* I believe this is illegal although it does not damage the meter.
FuckingThemBack
3 0
Have to contest a ticket? Here are some tips to improve your chances of winning.
1) Be nice. Seriously. The old saying “you get more bees with honey” truly applies and is sometimes the only thing required to win a case. Remember there are 100s of angry people who are going to scream and yell at these “judges” all day. Don’t be that person and your odds greatly improve.
2) Bring evidence. Photos, video, friends, etc.
3) Ticketed for something involving distance (ex: too close to a fire hydrant)? Learn how to take a photo/video at the right angle to make it look like you’re further away from the point of violation.
4) Make shit up. No friend was with you when you received the ticket? No problem! The PPA doesn’t know that they weren’t present. Grab a friend, make up a story and your “evidence” is almost assuredly enough to get you off.
5) Photoshop*. The holy grail of techniques. If you know how to use Photoshop you can win pretty much anything other than an expired meter on this tactic alone. Parked in a loading zone? Simply remove the loading zone signs, or clip your car out entirely. Too close to a hydrant? Clip that thing and move it down the street, or clip your car and move the car. You get the idea….
* This tactic is reserved for advanced PPA haters only.
I seriously end up paying roughly 1 out of every 4 - 5 tickets I get using the techniques above. Good luck fellow Philadelphians! PPA employees…..you all can go fuck yourselves.
DestroyPPA
2 0
why do I have to take a day off work to contest a ticket at a broken meter? PLUS I appealed it and got a letter that it was checked out and working properly…Went back and it was still broken. Took a phone video and won the case. AND it only cost me a days vacation. Thanks!
andrew
2 0
Dear PPA,
I hate you….last time you gave me a ticket you fucked my plate number up. I win you lose end.
Winner
0 0
Dear PPA,
One time you gave me 2 tickets within 1 minute of each other… WTF?! How is that fair? Unfortunately due to having a paying job, I had to pay the BS 2nd one rather than fight it!! This happened 6 years ago and I STILL HATE YOU FOR IT!
Jenny
2 0
Hi Philadelphia Parking Authority) -
I received a parking ticket. I’m fine with that. I deserved it. But the fact that PPA has tagged on a $2.50 processing fee for web payments is both ludicrous and fundamentally insane. I know how the payment processing industry operates. I’ve worked in it. And you charging $2.50 for a payment process that costs you mere cents on the dollar to Visa and/or MasterCard is criminal.
Look, I know the city is in debt and times are tough and all that, but squeezing an extra $2.50 out of hard working Philadelphians is dirty. It’s just dirty. This practice will only keep people away from the city. That’ll help boost local business and tourism, right? RIGHT?
Offering a web payment option is supposed to be about convenience, right? RIGHT???? Yet you skim me out of $2.50 (on top of a $51.00 ticket) for processing that, as mentioned, can only cost you a few cents to Visa or MasterCard.
Customer disservices like these are what shape public opinion of the PPA. I don’t really need to get in to what the public thinks of the PPA though… you know what we think. Anyway, I hope my $2.50 processing fee goes towards processing a PPA employee’s pink slip due to “tough times.”
Sincerely,
–
Dave
AND THE REPLY (hey, at least I got one - but not like it does me any good):
The processing fee is a fee that covers the credit card processing fees the Authority pays to be able to offer the convenience of accepting credit cards. Anytime a payment is made with a credit card, the Authority must pay our vendor a percentage of the money collected, therefore we needed to start charging a fee, just like many other companies (Water Dept., Board of Taxes & Revisions and so on) to cover our costs.
This fees covers that cost, we do not make any kind of profit off of this fee. As much as we did not want to charge a fee, once we looked at the amount of money we were paying in processing fees, because paperless transactions have become so common, we had no other choice.
Hopefully this clears ups any misunderstandings you may have had of our process.
dave
2 0
Dear PPA,
May I ask why I am required to pay $2.50 per ticket to pay online? What exactly is that money going towards? I’m damn sure an online payment is more convenient for you than receiving a check, so please - enlighten me.
For now I’ll assume it’s because you hate trees and the environment. Otherwise, it’s just because you are a bunch of a-holes, right?
Thanks!!!!!!!!
Maggie
0 0
Dear PPA,
Fuck you - we are tired of your racket. You have effectively pushed our business out of Old City. Its time someone called you out on the well know bullshit. Contesting a ticket is like getting a prison backrub in the lunchroom. You make it such a pain in the ass people are willing to pay their tickets since they can’t afford to take off work.
It seems with an even tougher economy you have really ramped up the paper rapings. Thanks for adding fuel to an already hostile city.
Philadelphia 
Hey yo….Mother FUCK the PPA!! No parking between 3:30 and 6:30 pm on 15th block of Walnut?? Kinda shit in that? WTF is so important about that time?? Man..PPA can suck a fat dick and die slow!
I hate PPA, signed South Jerz
I paid for 3 hours at 12th street because the sign said 3 hour parking 7-10PM M-Sat. Apparently I didn’t notice that it went to 2 hour parking 10-12…..the sign had 2 hour 6 am - 4 PM, no parking 4-6 PM, 3 hour 6-10 AND 2 hour 10-midnight. How the FUCK are people supposed to decipher this bullshit. Fuck them. They are not getting a single red cent from me. The gave me two goddamn tickets for a total of 112 bucks
Fucking fed up!
The poop is nigh my little monkeys.
The time for talk is over.
i watch parking wars on a&e. i dont understand how a city can allow this to happen. come together people. It is like that because you as citizens dont take action i.e; vote.
wtf?
me too my burna is on hot and cocked-if u get near my car i assume you trying to jack me so boom boom. we bout start to a revolution FUCK THE PPA AND PHILLY tired of gettin strong armed by the city i live in
haha
start beating there ass when they give u a ticket. Im gonna pistol whip and kidnap that skinny nigga that keeps giving tickets on my corner.THIS IS A WARNING STAY OFF MY KORNER OR GET CRIPPLED —satan
BEAT DOWN TIME
THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR IS NOT TOLERATED IN MY CITY BECAUSE THE RESIDENTS DON’T ALLOW IT. WE RECENTLY GOT RED LIGHT CAMERAS AND AFTER 5 MONTHS OF THREATS AND NOBODY PAYING THERE RED LIGHT TICKETS THE CITY TOOK THEM ALL DOWN EXCEPT 2. THOSE 2 CAMERAS THEY LEFT UP GOT PULLED TO THE GROUND AND DESTROYED IN THE STREET. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN REPLACED AND NEVER WILL BE. IF THE CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS OF PHILLY DONT DO ANYTHING ABOUT THIS BUT BITCH AND MOAN THEN IT WILL NEVER CHANGE. PHILLY IS YOUR CITY NOT THE PPA’S CITY. PETITION THE MAYOR AND YOUR DISTRICT COUNCILMAN. FIND THE LAW FIRM THAT IS TOTALLY AGAINST THEM AND THEY WILL HELP YOU FOR FREE. ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS.FROM THE INFO I HAVE FOUND BY JUST SEARCHING THE WEB IT LOOKS LIKE THE PPA IS ONE OF THE MOST HATED BRANCHES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THERE ARE NUMEROUS PETITIONS TO SIGN. WHY IS THAT INFO NOT ON THIS SITE, WHY DONT YOU PEOPLE THAT FEEL SO STRONGLY DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. PAY ATTENTION TO LOCAL ELECTIONS OR RUN YOURSELF. DO SOMETHING, DONT JUST SAY SOMETHING. GOOD LUCK!
ONLY IN pHILLY
I rigged up a device that will spit fire under the window slot at the impound lot. I KEEP GETTING TOWED FROM MY JOB SITE. ppa FUCKED WITH THE WRONG ONE THIS TIME. IT IS TIME TO BE A TERRORISTS NOW. All YOU MOTHERFUCKERS BURN!!!!!!!!!!!
Texas Trafficking
Hello!
cialis ,
cialis
Karma
Anonymous
I got the topper of all all stories. I got a bogus ticket then sent an email to customer service rep giving them a piece of my mind and this asshole sent a letter to the president of my company with a copy of the email. The result was I got fucking fired from my job. The ppa is an evil organization that sole purpose is to fuck over the tax paying citizen. Heartless, merciless gaping assholes.
recentlyunemployed
i’ ll just pass it on to your mom,so please dont pray that hard
ppa writer
mass prayer this evening at 8 pm that PPA employees contract the aids virus.
Fraternal Order of Thieves
If you get a ticket or get towed , its probably
your fault. Don;t blame other people for
YOUR mistakes.
Anonymous
I paid for 2 hours in Chinatown and apparently deserved a 36 dollar ticket because I put the meter-tag on the driver’s side instead of the curbside.
Fucking assholes.
DTMFA
Dear Officer T Drinks,
If I have a multi-meter tag on my dashboard the says I am paid through 1:48pm, how did I get a ticket at 1:28? You are a waste of humanity and I hope you get an infection that resists treatment. As an organization, the PPA rakes in large profits, and yet it only seems to grows larger and hire more incompetent assholes. Thanks for raising the cost of parking during a recession. Cocksuckers.
Tried to follow the rules...
The “officer” (even though they’re nothing but a bunch of fucked up assholes with God complexes) marked down the wrong plate number on my ticket.
Will I have to pay this shit?
PPGay
I got a ticket less than 48 hours (Wednesday morning) for expired emissions and safety stickers on my car. Because I am a full time student, I did not have the opportunity to get my car checked out until the weekend, but alas, Friday morning, I got the same fucking ticket.
I hope these assholes can’t sleep at night, especially you, M. Schmincke and C. Oxford. Fuck you.
Dan
dear PPA scum
How does it feel to be the most hated people on earth you miserably fucks. Do the world a favor and kill yourself you worthless fucking cowards.
Fuck you
Philthadelphia Phucking Assholes.
Goddamn Sons of Bitches.
Go fuck yourselves.
Your Mom
In my West Philly neighborhood, I thought that some areas are two hour parking and some are not. Generally, I just steer clear of the two hour parking areas, but it was late I was tired and I knew I was leaving early in the morning. But, apparently it goes further. Some areas are two hour parking until 6 pm. Some apparently are until midnight? Some are on the weekends some not. What is the use of that other than to PURPOSELY confuse people into making parking violations?
Brian Brown
Apparently, there was a snow emergency declared when it snow/slush/rained this past thursday. My car was towed from Broad street (because that’s the evacuation route) and moved to a side street. I guess that’s fair, had I had any idea that there was an “emergency.” The thing that pisses me off is they also found it necessary to issue me TWO tickets, 19 minutes apart, for parking during said emergency at $76 a pop. WTF? I also cannot fathom how rain-snow that MAYBE accumulated 2 inches could possibly be considered an emergency.
suckit
Hello good day
Zdobaacn
It’s serious
Vvbxyzkm
perfect design thanks
Uqrmykeg
very best job
Ovraogjj
Dear PPA,
Go fuck yourselves.
Morgan
You’re going to start ticketing motorcycles & scooters for basically creating more parking spots for cars? Go fuck yourselves you greedy pieces of shit.
Brandon
no signs on the entire block since someone ripped them off the poles and apparently i was suppose to have guessed they use to be there and that they still count even though they were stolen
htg
I got you beat. I paid a new meter till 3:49 yesterday and sure as shit some douche bag named D Sampson wrote me up at 3:51. I was at my car as said douche was walking away from the scene. They’re stalking our cars, looking at the future expiration times and coming back just at the second we’re in violation. City of brothery love my asshole. Two minutes does not equal $38.50. I am a hard working guy trying to earn a buck and the bloated PPA is trying to squeeze every last dime out of us. I’m so glad I believe in Karma because the whole lot of them has it coming–bigmotherfuckingtime.
mr bill
$36 for a 10 min???? It was 7:55 and parked in a two hour spot. feed the stupid machine til 9:55. Time on ticket 9:59. Fuck you PPA
Jkel
This city is fucked up from top to down! PPA is fucked up, including that fucking judge as well. He fucking showed up at 10.30 am, give me a fucking break, even President bama starts working at 8am.
It is like everybody in this fucking city is working on a well planned plot to fuck up its citizens, cops to towing guys to traffic cort to judges to fucking PPA. everyone. period.
When i got pulled over the other day the cop got my car fucking towed. When I asked him why do you get my car towed away, his fucking reply was to make sure you pay your citation/ticket. I told him i can pay right now, why do you get it towed??? He fucking goes, well not everybody is rich in this city and not everybody has that kind of money to pay it.. Well fucking idiot, if it is the case, why do you fucking make it more expensive for that poor guy? TOwing my ass will cost another 200-300, stogae fee another 50, traffic court fucking fee another 175 and your fucking speeding ticket another 175…
As i said, this city is fucked up from top to down. Everyone is corrupt. City tax, wage tax, this ticket, that ticket.. My ass, ugliest city fucking ever i have seen in my life!
Your Name
Seriously fuck you! The “new machines” on the 200 block of market have been out of paper for 2 weeks. On top of that there is no sign from the machine that its out of order so you insert your credit card, which gets charged and never prints you a ticket to put in your dash. HOLY FUCK YOU SAY! NO fucking way! Yes fucking way! THE PPA IS FUCKING US EVERYDAY. AND GETTING FUCKED WHEN YOU DON’T WANT TO BE FUCKED HURTS.
Helpless people who get fucked, get mad.
Your Name
Meters turn off on Walnut Street. Meters stay on till midnight on Spring Garden. Walnut=tons of traffic and turnover. Spring Garden=ghost town minus Silk City.
Confused
Article in today’s Inky about the PPA. Meter increase ends up creating more free parking in the city. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/55628587.html
enjoy
Amused
Every so often I just want to remind the PPA that they can suck my asshole. Thanks!
MrBill
phillyparkingrevolt.com
admin
Hey PPA, just wanted to say thanks for your new ticketing strategy in Queen Village. I really love that you’ve decided to stop street cleaning and instead turn the street into 2 hour parking. I also appreciate the fact that you’re doing this with no notice whatsoever. It’s fun for me to park my car in a free spot and then find out that I’ve racked up 4 tickets 3 days later. At least give the meter readers a broom so they can do something useful while they’re out waddling around.
Green Man
Want to put a meter out of order? Rumor has it that if you cut a gift card (cutting off your name of course) and shove it in the slot (the slot that looks like a credit card) that it will put the meter Out of Order.
* I believe this is illegal although it does not damage the meter.
FuckingThemBack
Have to contest a ticket? Here are some tips to improve your chances of winning.
1) Be nice. Seriously. The old saying “you get more bees with honey” truly applies and is sometimes the only thing required to win a case. Remember there are 100s of angry people who are going to scream and yell at these “judges” all day. Don’t be that person and your odds greatly improve.
2) Bring evidence. Photos, video, friends, etc.
3) Ticketed for something involving distance (ex: too close to a fire hydrant)? Learn how to take a photo/video at the right angle to make it look like you’re further away from the point of violation.
4) Make shit up. No friend was with you when you received the ticket? No problem! The PPA doesn’t know that they weren’t present. Grab a friend, make up a story and your “evidence” is almost assuredly enough to get you off.
5) Photoshop*. The holy grail of techniques. If you know how to use Photoshop you can win pretty much anything other than an expired meter on this tactic alone. Parked in a loading zone? Simply remove the loading zone signs, or clip your car out entirely. Too close to a hydrant? Clip that thing and move it down the street, or clip your car and move the car. You get the idea….
* This tactic is reserved for advanced PPA haters only.
I seriously end up paying roughly 1 out of every 4 - 5 tickets I get using the techniques above. Good luck fellow Philadelphians! PPA employees…..you all can go fuck yourselves.
DestroyPPA
why do I have to take a day off work to contest a ticket at a broken meter? PLUS I appealed it and got a letter that it was checked out and working properly…Went back and it was still broken. Took a phone video and won the case. AND it only cost me a days vacation. Thanks!
andrew
Dear PPA,
I hate you….last time you gave me a ticket you fucked my plate number up. I win you lose end.
Winner
Dear PPA,
One time you gave me 2 tickets within 1 minute of each other… WTF?! How is that fair? Unfortunately due to having a paying job, I had to pay the BS 2nd one rather than fight it!! This happened 6 years ago and I STILL HATE YOU FOR IT!
Jenny
Hi Philadelphia Parking Authority) -
I received a parking ticket. I’m fine with that. I deserved it. But the fact that PPA has tagged on a $2.50 processing fee for web payments is both ludicrous and fundamentally insane. I know how the payment processing industry operates. I’ve worked in it. And you charging $2.50 for a payment process that costs you mere cents on the dollar to Visa and/or MasterCard is criminal.
Look, I know the city is in debt and times are tough and all that, but squeezing an extra $2.50 out of hard working Philadelphians is dirty. It’s just dirty. This practice will only keep people away from the city. That’ll help boost local business and tourism, right? RIGHT?
Offering a web payment option is supposed to be about convenience, right? RIGHT???? Yet you skim me out of $2.50 (on top of a $51.00 ticket) for processing that, as mentioned, can only cost you a few cents to Visa or MasterCard.
Customer disservices like these are what shape public opinion of the PPA. I don’t really need to get in to what the public thinks of the PPA though… you know what we think. Anyway, I hope my $2.50 processing fee goes towards processing a PPA employee’s pink slip due to “tough times.”
Sincerely,
–
Dave
AND THE REPLY (hey, at least I got one - but not like it does me any good):
The processing fee is a fee that covers the credit card processing fees the Authority pays to be able to offer the convenience of accepting credit cards. Anytime a payment is made with a credit card, the Authority must pay our vendor a percentage of the money collected, therefore we needed to start charging a fee, just like many other companies (Water Dept., Board of Taxes & Revisions and so on) to cover our costs.
This fees covers that cost, we do not make any kind of profit off of this fee. As much as we did not want to charge a fee, once we looked at the amount of money we were paying in processing fees, because paperless transactions have become so common, we had no other choice.
Hopefully this clears ups any misunderstandings you may have had of our process.
dave
Dear PPA,
May I ask why I am required to pay $2.50 per ticket to pay online? What exactly is that money going towards? I’m damn sure an online payment is more convenient for you than receiving a check, so please - enlighten me.
For now I’ll assume it’s because you hate trees and the environment. Otherwise, it’s just because you are a bunch of a-holes, right?
Thanks!!!!!!!!
Maggie
Dear PPA,
Fuck you - we are tired of your racket. You have effectively pushed our business out of Old City. Its time someone called you out on the well know bullshit. Contesting a ticket is like getting a prison backrub in the lunchroom. You make it such a pain in the ass people are willing to pay their tickets since they can’t afford to take off work.
It seems with an even tougher economy you have really ramped up the paper rapings. Thanks for adding fuel to an already hostile city.
Love,
A Fucking Tax Paying Citizen
Richard