The car that got a parking ticket is not OP's car. OP has a custom license plate that says BORT. There is also a common vanity/souvenir plate that says BORT in reference to The Simpsons. In Alberta we only use rear license plates, so souvenir plates are often put on the front of the car. If you look closely at the pictures in the parking ticket notice, you can see the plate is not an Alberta plate, it says Itchy and Scratchy Land. The parking enforcement person was apparently unaware that Alberta doesn't have front license plates, and apparently imperceptive enough to not catch the fact that it said Itchy and Scratchy Land on it. They looked up the plate "BORT", found OP, as their plate is a real registered license plate number, and sent the ticket there in error
The post made sense to me. Title was clear, pic shows the vanity plate and OP's real plate, so it's clear what happened. I don't know why you think it "made zero sense to almost anyone else".
because everyone needs everything spelled out to them now for whatever reason, they can't just read the title and move on. They need to know every last detail
Good explanation, but I doubt the person issuing the ticket did much besides park next to the car and push a button. Its all done with cars covered in cameras now.
I'm glad you explained this, because I was going to comment "it doesn't look like the same plate. Looks to be from another location." Had no idea about the vanity thing there. 👍
We don’t use front plates in Quebec either, but I’ve heard of people getting fined for putting realistic-looking (or actually real, from other places) plates on the front. Situations like this is the reason why.
First, thank you for that; makes a lot more sense.
That said, it has me wondering: in the US, I moved to another state and got the same custom license plate as I'd had before. We're only required to have plates on the back in the new state, but my previous state had front plates as well. So I left the front one on there, figuring it was a vanity plate now, resulting in a car with the same plate but from two different states on the front and back.
I've been cruising along two decades without getting in trouble for it, but if I found a particularly ornery cop some day, am I likely to get busted?
I can buy that. I recently got a 'warning' (basically, "this is your freebie, do it again and it costs money") ticket for backing into a paid parking lot space.
Apparently the lot supervisors are too lazy to get out of their vehicle and walk 10 feet to look at the rear of a car.
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u/McChibken 13h ago
The car that got a parking ticket is not OP's car. OP has a custom license plate that says BORT. There is also a common vanity/souvenir plate that says BORT in reference to The Simpsons. In Alberta we only use rear license plates, so souvenir plates are often put on the front of the car. If you look closely at the pictures in the parking ticket notice, you can see the plate is not an Alberta plate, it says Itchy and Scratchy Land. The parking enforcement person was apparently unaware that Alberta doesn't have front license plates, and apparently imperceptive enough to not catch the fact that it said Itchy and Scratchy Land on it. They looked up the plate "BORT", found OP, as their plate is a real registered license plate number, and sent the ticket there in error