One of our employees who drives our GPS Insight Scion in a car pool took it Saturday morning to a remote area of the desert to go for a run.
He parked off the road, on a pull-out which was nowhere near where cars drive.
He came back to this $90 parking ticket (with my name on it since it’s my car officially…):
$90 ridiculous parking ticket
So here’s how you prove that Maricopa County Sheriff’s are scrounging around for money for our broke County, using GPS Insight:
Quickly run a 3D vehicle history for the Scion for that day
Open the “Time Slider” to the first trip of the day & show just the dots (green) on the map corresponding to the drive to the first stop and 45 minute stop (yellow):
History shows the drive to go to an early AM run
Then Zoom down & see the vehicle was parked off the road itself:
Parking off the road yields a $90 ticket
Then go to Street View mode & see that it’s a paved pull-off. Why wouldn’t it be ok to park there to go for a run/ride/hike?
Did they pave it just to lure people in to give them $90 parking tickets? Thanks Deputy Thompson.
Street View shows this is nowhere near the road
I’ve paid it since it’s got my name on it, but I will definitely send a copy of the blog article to the Judge & see if we can get it refunded.
How ridiculous, though.
Even though politics and a County with financial issues trumps GPS evidence sometimes, at least you can clear the suspicion that your driver did the wrong thing.
Also, using our DriverID, you know which driver was in the vehicle at the time of the ticket so you know who to talk with, if the original got “lost.”
Rob.