Surprised? It’s happening again. A Milwaukee man is facing foreclosure on his $245,000 home because he wouldn’t pay a $50 parking ticket in 2004.
In what city officials believe is the first case of its kind, the city foreclosed on Tubic’s house on W. Verona Court after repeated attempts to collect the fine – which over the years had escalated to $2,600 – had failed.
“Our goal isn’t to acquire parcels,” said Jim Klajbor, special deputy city treasurer. “Our goal is to just collect taxes. . . . It is only as a last resort that we would pursue . . . foreclosure.”
I’m sorry Mr. Special Deputy City Treasurer. That might not be your INTENTION, but it certainly was your GOAL, because you DID IT.
OK, so the homeowner, a Mr. Tubic, has not paid his parking ticket. How did he get that parking ticket, anyway?
Tubic first got the fine for parking his Ford E150 with no license plates in the driveway of the home, which belonged to his parents at the time . The radiator had broken and Tubic couldn’t get his plates renewed unless the van passed an emissions test. He didn’t have the money to make the repair and had more pressing worries, he said.
His father was suffering from dementia. His mother was battling cancer, and he was their live-in caretaker. He needed to shop, cook, clean, maintain the house and tend to his parents’ needs.
The van repair could wait, he thought.
Then a man from the city showed up and told him otherwise. It was February 2004. Tubic would have to move the van or get license plates for it within 30 days, per city zoning codes, the man said. Somebody had complained.
His van was without license plates and was parked in his driveway?! That’s it?! Where else is he going to park his own van until he fixes it? The city park? So now it’s illegal to park your own vehicle on your own property unless your vehicle meets government “emissions” guidelines and is registered by the government?? Argh!
Tubic is a 62-year old disabled man, on Social Security and “has been diagnosed with psychological disorders that limit his ‘ability to understand, remember and carry out detailed instructions,’ according to documents from the administration.” He has degenerative diseases of the knees and spine, and other ailments. The guy is in poor shape and is an emotional disaster. The poor guy! I really have compassion in him.
HOWEVER– even if the guy was a 250-pound, muscular and wealthy socialite with a Hitler-like moustache, NO ONE’S HOME SHOULD EVER BE CONFISCATED LIKE THIS! It makes me so angry! I don’t want to rehash all the other posts I’ve written about this subject– you can read more about it on my post, How To Create a Serfdom, which is exactly what the government and their fascist corporations are doing to us. These tyrants are just DROOLING, waiting for the moment when they can seize our properties, aren’t they?? Couldn’t they have taken the guy’s CAR, since it was a parking ticket? Couldn’t they have revoked his license, or something? P.S. Tubic did continue to pay his property taxes.
Just remember what Thomas Jefferson said would happen to us if we continue to allow these bullies to keep this up:
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” Thomas Jefferson
4. August 2008 at 6:45 pm
I do have to agree that this sounds like the worst kind of overzealousness on some government worker’s part. I too feel sorry for mr. Tubic. This type of situation should never be allowed to happen.
4. August 2008 at 7:10 pm
This is so bizarre. I hope this gets straightened out in Mr. Tubic’s favor. Grr …
4. August 2008 at 7:48 pm
Personally I would sue them for the house and mental damages. In my eyes they are discriminating against a disabled man who does not have the money to pay for car repair. Oh and I would also find out who reported it and sue them too.
Unfortunately he probably doesn’t have the money to do that either. Hopefully it will get resolved in his favor.
I hate how the government tries to control what we can and can not do on our own property.
5. August 2008 at 10:50 am
Nobody but governments (and a few exceptional cases of old universities and churches) truly owns property in America. You don’t have title, you have a conditional, transferable lease, revocable in the even that you fail to pay tribute or violate other provisions of abhorrent positive law (see “civil asset forfeiture”).
Property as it exists today is a happy illusion maintained by the country’s true owners as means of extracting as much wealth as possible from the modern citizen-serf. Occasionally the illusion breaks down, as seen here.
5. August 2008 at 5:15 pm
This is why every person must fight every traffic ticket, as practice for a REAL lawsuit later on. Parking tickets are just like robocop photo tickets, just ignore them for lack of personal service of process. If the crooked cops, prosecutors and judges try to collect on a civil judgement lacking service of process, call their bluff and appeal to the state supreme court. 14th Amendment to US Constitution orders that when govt employees get free parking, EVERYONE gets free parking, as proven in Onks vs City of Cookville TN, with 2 lawyers’ 200 parking tickets dismissed on appeal to TN Supreme Court to avoid setting a precedent, and all 200 parking meters removed:
http://piratenews.org/PARKINGCASESTN.HTML
Read your state’s Rule 4 of Rules of Civil Procedure re civil service of process. But if you’re stupid enuff to appear in court on a parking ticket, you have voluntarily waived all your Constitutional rights, sucker.
“It is extremely easy to beat this type of ticket in court. Your easiest defense is to simply throw the ticket away. If it does not come with a return receipt that requires a signature, there is no proof that you actually got the ticket and they cannot prosecute you on that. What the legal system wants you to do is just send in the fine and not ask any questions. This can be a big money maker for some communities. One other form of defense to utilize on your behalf is the fact that when you are accused in court you must be faced by your accuser. Obviously the computer cannot appear in court as a defense method for the prosecution. Also, you do not have to identify yourself as the driver of the vehicle because it would violate your sixth amendment rights against self incrimination.”
-Norman G. Fernandez, attorney at law, and Jes Beard, attorney at law in Chattanooga, Tennessee, “How to Beat a Speeding Ticket – Photo RADAR”
http://jesbeard.com/s11.htm
How to Beat a Speeding Ticket – Free Ebook download by attorney Norman G. Fernandez
http://www.bikerlawyer.net/how-to-beat-a-speeding-ticket.pdf
Http://piratenews.org/how-to-win-in-dragon-court.html