Parking Ticket

BIG NEWS:
Remember this post: ?

Well I just got the response back as Follows:

The appeals committee reviewed your appeal on March 7th, 2011 and after
careful consideration your appeal has been approved. No further action is
necessary.

Have a great day,
Tanner Morrell
Parking Authority

That makes me happy :)

The following is the letter I sent them, full of expert rhetoric:

2/25/2011
Dear Appeals Committee,

I recently received a ticket for parking on the street on 24 February 2011. I would like to make a request that this ticket be repealed based on my circumstances: I have been unemployed for the last 11 months, 9 of which have been while living here in this great city of Logan, Utah. During the night of the 23rd, I would have normally parked in my apartment complex’s parking lot however the lot was filled over-capacity and beyond safe limits, leaving me few options for parking safely and in the common interest of other residents. Under my circumstances I have had to resort to desperate measures in order to pay my bills and survive and therefore cannot afford this ticket.
Old Farm Student Housing, where I live on 777E 1000N, Logan, UT, is notorious for having a crammed parking lot. The management gives out more parking passes than they have parking spaces, which, although it is unethical, they are able to get away with it. During the morning of the 24th I pulled into the parking lot at 1:20AM and proceeded to seek out a parking spot. To my surprise, not only were all of the regular parking spots filled, but all of the channels and driveways through the parking lot to the entrances and exits were blocked off by residents’ cars. In order to even leave the parking lot I had to make a 15 point turnaround in front of the garbage cans.
Recently, my land lord announced that they will no longer be giving parking tickets to violators of our parking code and that instead, “all parking violations will be booted”. With that in mind, I was left with two options for parking: Park in the middle of the parking lot, thereby blocking a minimum of 10 cars and the garbage cans, which would likely result in a boot being placed on my car or worse. I was placed in a catch-22 situation: I would either be booted from parking in the lot, or ticketed for parking on the street.
Knowing I could not afford to have my car impounded, I checked the weather and realized it was not snowing that night, nor would it be snowing until late in the evening on the 24th, up to 20 hours later. I weighed my options and although it was frustrating to be trapped by the laws that should be helping me and my neighbors, I chose to park on the street after ensuring that it would be reasonably safe, would not cause harm to other people, and that I would not interfere with the general maintenance of the public road. Thirty minutes after I had parked my car just outside of the Old Farm parking lot, it was recorded that I received ticket #78605380 at 2:01AM 24 Feb 2011.
Seeing as how I have been unemployed for the past 11 months, and I have even resorted to extreme measures just so that I could feed myself, including donating plasma at the local Biomat Grifols, I would like to make a request that my fine be waved and my ticket repealed by the committee.
I thank you for your consideration of my request, I will be eternally grateful if you extend your support to one of the unemployed of Logan City,

Kyle Oakeson

--After re-reading this I realize there are actually quite a few signs that I wrote this while I Was tired...for instance some of the tenses are incorrect from how I normally write, but who cares?

<3 Thanks Logan City!