The Identical Twin Parking Ticket Loophole

This sounds really, really fake.

Parking tickets, like red light cameras, and speeding tickets are the responsibility of the driver, not the vehicle owner.

If you lend your car out and it gets a ticket, you don’t have to pay the ticket if you can prove that you weren’t the one driving at the time.

Parking citations are a non-moving violation (UNlike red light cameras and speeding) and are ultimately the responsibility of the vehicle owner. Why don’t they just do what most cities in the US do and impound the car until the tickets are paid?

“But every time they refuse to pay them and tell courts that the other was driving.”

Nobody is driving when you get a parking ticket.

“Parking tickets, like red light cameras, and speeding tickets are the responsibility of the driver, not the vehicle owner.”

The part about red light (and speed) cameras is only true in California and, like, three other states in the US. For the rest of the states getting caught on film is a no-points “civil citation”. The burden of proof on the part of the state is much lower with a civil citation so it’s almost impossible to challenge.

If an officer actually pulls you over and confirms your identity it gets bumped up to a moving violation. You might get points in this case but the state’s burden of evidence is also higher.

That’s pretty harmless as long as it’s only about parking tickets; but did you hear about the German diamond heist where police found DNA but couldn’t detain the suspect because they couldn’t prove whether it was him or his identical twin? They both got away.
Link:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,614245,00.html

@Christophe – wouldn’t that make you the evil twin?