only parking ticket ever in Dumaguete

The recent predicament of a DI member had with people blocking his business driveway reminds me of an incident when we first moved here around 6 years ago.
One day we parked outside the bank on the boulevard next to Bogarts, DBS i think it is, we were nose to the kerb and last in a line of cars before the banks driveway.
When we came back there was a traffic guy writing out a ticket, shock horror WHAT, it turns out the Mayor (whoever he was at that time) had been in the bank and when he was leaving he felt it was troublesome to exit the car park as our car was encroaching on the driveway by around 5 mm.
I spoke to the security guard at the gate as he was watching when we parked and did not mention it was an offence but his answer was that it was not a problem until the Mayor came along.
So that was a 50 peso lesson for us.
The point of my story is that i do not know what kind of business the DI member runs but if he could somehow entice the Mayor with some reason to come to his business i am sure the offending blockage would be covered with 50 peso tickets in double quick time and the problem would be over.

 

I saw the TMO writing a ticket once and posted about it here.
NO ONE BELIEVES ME.
Wahh
Do you have a picture to prove it... Lol

 

I actually received two parking tickets in a years time. One time was because I wasn't willing to carry a washing machine a kilometer, the other was all about MEEEEEEEEE!

 

I got my 50php parking ticket when I pulled up in front of the walk-up window at McD, stepped out to get a drink at the window....and VOILA, as soon as I stepped out of my car, that lovely high-heeled, tight-shirt wearing female (?) officer was writing me a ticket!! There were several other cars parked alongside the road on both sides, and I asked if she was going to give THEM tickets....she told me if I had a problem I could file a complaint......

 

Of course she was going to write all of them a ticket and probably all of the motorbikes parked on the sidewalks too. They wouldn't just single out a foreigner like that.

 

I wonder what she would have done if you said "OK, Thank You Ma'am", popped out your cell phone and started to video her and the surrounding vehicles to file with your complaint?

 

Nothing, because she wrote you a ticket for breaking the rules. Someone else breaking the rules doesn't absolve you from following the rules. Police in the USA get scared when they see people filming because the courts have now said you can sue them directly if they do something illegal under color of law because when they break the law they are not acting as police officers. Unfortunately, selective parking ticket writing wouldn't be one of those circumstances, even in the US.

 

I dont want to throw a spanner into the works but, when you rent a shop here do you also get right away to the land out to the traffic lane? some how i dont think so. I find hard to see how a place like Matiao can block off so many parking places. no standing no parking signs i can agree with but, i find it hard to believe that someone leasing a shop has any rights past the gutter

 

Alex
I believe that it is illegal to block someone's driveway so it's probably illegal to block a parking spot.
Having built a house here there was no discussion of easements to my property.
At the shop were I buy meat the owner stuck a couple of parking for XXX customers only on the public road. I asked him "how can you do that?" He just said where else will my customers parking? I'm not going to challenge the local logic. That's just what it is.

 

The issue isn't if the ticket is legitimate or not, the issue is discrimination. Selective parking ticket writing might not... until you change out "selective" with "discriminatory". The fix would then be let you go with a warning or write tickets to every other rule breaker parked next to you. (btw, I am just making a point for the sake of dicussion. Not diluted into thinking I can or should change how things run here. It is their country, not mine.)