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07-07-2005, 11:57 PM

wrote:
I got a citation from the city yard police
(for lack of something more benign to call them)
for "excessive vegetation." Whatever its actual
merits, the blank for "Date of infraction" was
filled in with a date of almost a year ago!
But in the signature portion, the inspector did
sign with a more plausible recent date. I couldn't
believe my eyes. I have requested a hearing before
the adjudication board. Would it be prudent to
have a substantive defense or are these things
dismissed if they're technically flawed?

Also in the things-that-don't-add-up department,
in the envelope in which the citation arrived,
somebody had mistakenly included a multi-page
document pertaining to a complicated housing
violation by somebody else in a different part
of the city!

What city? Why do you live there? Since the infraction was from a year
ago you will probably be assessed an additional fine. Technicalities
are always in favor of the government.

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Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8
Sunset Zone 5