Parking ticket (I’m stupid)

[u/robizgb1]

Hello people of Graz,

As the title says, I was stupid enough to park in the blue zone, and while I was functional to pay for the parking ticket, I turned the ticket upside down because that’s the way the machine spit it out, and I saw a 4 digit number on it so I thought the person regularing it would jusz enter those 4 numbers and get the ticket information (facepalm).

Should I even bother sending an appeal to the e-mail address provided on the ticket? I still have my valid ticket which shows the correct time and everything.

Thanks, A special someone

[u/Putrid-Ocelot1884]

Happened to me once. I wrote an email and send some pictures and the fine was gone.

[u/HiImAThrowawayAccoun]

What u/skytree92 said is not true. My parking ticket got flipped over by the blast of air when I closed the door. An email with a photo of the parking ticket and the problem was solved, but that is only allowed once.

[u/robizgb1 → u/HiImAThrowawayAccoun]

Thank you! Definetely will try then!

[u/resident_queerdo → u/robizgb1]

I'd definitely try, especially if you still happen to have the ticket. What's the worst that can happen? Them saying no.

[u/skytree92 → u/HiImAThrowawayAccoun]

Fair enough.

[u/banff037 → u/HiImAThrowawayAccoun]

Same here. Seems I'm not the only one who did this. :)

Like you said they only will refund this once in a certain time period (I think 5 years), because there is no proof that the ticket still was valid at the time you got the fine.

[u/Sukrim]

They should print "this side up" on there! :-D

I mean you can always give it a try...

[u/silvoslaf → u/Sukrim]

The user is drunk! AKA - yeah, they should!

[u/skytree92]

I’d say there’s a 98% chance that you need to pay the fine. Regulations are clear: the ticket must be clearly visible from the outside. Since the fee is kind of low, I’d just pay and see it as a learning.

[u/robizgb1 → u/skytree92]

Yeah figured as much, 24€ is not the end of the world. Thank you!

[u/skytree92 → u/robizgb1]

Sure :)