Posted: 6/28/2016 8:12:23 PM EDT
| In town visiting family mid-pcs move, parked in front of an overgrown fire hydrant. City inpounded car and ticketed. Good lord talk about highway robbery. Ticket itself I wouldn't care about but the impound was close to $250. |
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In town visiting family mid-pcs move, parked in front of an overgrown fire hydrant. City inpounded car and ticketed. Good lord talk about highway robbery. Ticket itself I wouldn't care about but the impound was close to $250. What do you mean by an overgrown fire hydrant? |
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In town visiting family mid-pcs move, parked in front of an overgrown fire hydrant. City inpounded car and ticketed. Good lord talk about highway robbery. Ticket itself I wouldn't care about but the impound was close to $250. What do you mean by an overgrown fire hydrant? It was a really big fire hydrant, and I should've know better. |
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I can sympathize. I got the same ticket last year. Fire hydrant was painted green and right next to a bus stop that was 10' back from the curb. Curb wasn't painted either. Bastards I've noticed that before too and it's odd that they paint hydrants with the least visible paint possible |
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If the hyrant or area on the street is not properly marked, you could probably argue your way out of it. No markings on the curb, no blue reflector, hydrant was painted green and mostly concealed in some garden. I didn't see it until a neighbor pointed it out. I would fight it if I were going to be sticking around longer. Got pictures of that nonsense. |
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If the hyrant or area on the street is not properly marked, you could probably argue your way out of it. I researched and there is no requirement that they mark hydrants, that I could find. There is a nationwide group that is pushing for it. Not just for visibility but also a color coding system so firefighters know what pressure they are hooking into. Besides that I didn't want to take a day off to drive to Seattle and fight it. Cheaper to just pay it and be done. Had a hard time writing that check knowing it was wrong. |
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Seattle has color codes for hydrants.
All of Seattle's hydrants are green, some are redtop and some are yellowtop. The color of the tops designate water pressure. A redtop indicates 10 to 30 pounds of pressure per square foot. A yellowtop is 30 to 60. A greentop is more than 60. Seattle has parking restrictions for hydrants. https://www2.municode.com/library/wa/seattle/codes/municipal_code?searchRequest=%7B%22searchText%22:%2211.72.160%22,%22pageNum%22:1,%22resultsPerPage%22:25,%22booleanSearch%22:false,%22stemming%22:true,%22fuzzy%22:false,%22synonym%22:false,%22contentTypes%22:%5B%22CODES%22%5D,%22productIds%22:%5B%5D%7D&nodeId=TIT11VETR_SUBTITLE_ITRCO_PT7STSTPALO_CH11.72STSTPARE_11.72.160FIHY |
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Quoted: Seattle has color codes for hydrants. All of Seattle's hydrants are green, some are redtop and some are yellowtop. The color of the tops designate water pressure. A redtop indicates 10 to 30 pounds of pressure per square foot. A yellowtop is 30 to 60. A greentop is more than 60. Seattle has parking restrictions for hydrants. https://www2.municode.com/library/wa/seattle/codes/municipal_code?searchRequest=%7B%22searchText%22:%2211.72.160%22,%22pageNum%22:1,%22resultsPerPage%22:25,%22booleanSearch%22:false,%22stemming%22:true,%22fuzzy%22:false,%22synonym%22:false,%22contentTypes%22:%5B%22CODES%22%5D,%22productIds%22:%5B%5D%7D&nodeId=TIT11VETR_SUBTITLE_ITRCO_PT7STSTPALO_CH11.72STSTPARE_11.72.160FIHY 
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In town visiting family mid-pcs move, parked in front of an overgrown fire hydrant. City inpounded car and ticketed. Good lord talk about highway robbery. Ticket itself I wouldn't care about but the impound was close to $250. yup, my last ticket I was parked in between RV's in a fucking homeless camp. . . I got a fucking ticket parking in a homeless camp along the train tracks 
FYI, I've had my car towed before too, sorry OP fuck Seattle |
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No markings on the curb, no blue reflector, hydrant was painted green and mostly concealed in some garden. I didn't see it until a neighbor pointed it out. I would fight it if I were going to be sticking around longer. Got pictures of that nonsense. Quoted:
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If the hyrant or area on the street is not properly marked, you could probably argue your way out of it. No markings on the curb, no blue reflector, hydrant was painted green and mostly concealed in some garden. I didn't see it until a neighbor pointed it out. I would fight it if I were going to be sticking around longer. Got pictures of that nonsense. Just an FYI, simply fighting a ticket in Seattle requires about 20 dollars for parking and walking through a homeless camp to get to the court house 
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Long shot, but could argue that by not maintaining the area around the hydrant and making it properly visible, they are violating 17.04.510 of the King County Fire Code.
17.04.510 General - Marking of fire-protection equipment and fire hydrants. Section 901 of the International Fire Code is supplemented with the following: Marking of fire-protection equipment and fire hydrants (IFC 901.11). Fire-protection equipment and fire hydrants shall be clearly identified in an approved manner to prevent obstruction by parking and other obstructions. |