But he wasn’t pulled over on a pretext stop so its all good!
They are civil infractions, and whether you think it is justifiable is immaterial. I paid my fines and moved on.
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Of course its not justifiable or you wouldn’t have gotten tickets. Seems like there should be extra fines for habitual offenders. How long does it take a person to (a) happen upon a parking violator and (b) have the time to write the tickets (doubt it was digital back then). Did you personally pay the ticket or did your company pay/write them off (or personally pay and then get reimbursed by the company)?
Blocking curbs, bike lanes, bus stops, loading zones, school areas, double parking etc , especially habitually, seems selfish/inconsiderate and entitled, no matter how it is spun/justified. It’s a blatant disregard for the law. Guess we should be happy that it wasn’t a handicapped spot 
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Take the 5th, GK! 
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Ah yes, the inevitable go-to of LEO supporters. It somehow must be my fault that a cop swerved across five lanes of busy traffic to pull me over in the middle of a busy interchange on the false pretense of a nonexistent “seatbelt infraction.” LEO can never make mistakes. So if LEOs pulled me over, I must have done something wrong.
No need. I instructed my family to keep their hands visible and kept my hands on the top of the steering wheel. I don’t think they even asked me a question. Had they, I would have politely provided the required information, but no more. When police are amped up and wrongfully suspect you of doing something (whatever it was) that you did not do, it could be dangerous to try to talk them down.
Apparently you moved on to the next unlawful parking spot. $10,000? Must be nice to be able to afford to flout the law.
And driving away from enforcement because they weren’t going to chase you? Wow.
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Did the cop ever mention what was her probable cause to search the vehicle?
I don’t think so (at least not that I recall). It was probably 16 years ago now and I still fume when I think about it.
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LOL! Meter readers in Boston aren’t law enforcement. They work for the transportation department.
Moot point. They, (some are police but most are “Parking Enforcement Officers"), enforce the parking laws, which you habitually disregarded/violated. And were all your “parking violations” at expired meters? I highly doubt that, from what you have posted.
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@jym626, it’s totally ok to flout the law if the person charged with enforcing it doesn’t have a gun and won’t chase you. Oh…and you have enough money to pay your way out of further issues.
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I really hope you all don’t ever exceed the speed limit. LOL!
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Isn’t that why cruise control was invented? To make sure you don’t exceed the posted speed limit? 
FYI…answering that question in the affirmative is covered in the video I linked above. As I said to you previously - Take the 5th!
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I don’t drive in Boston. Drivers are nuts there! But some who do have said if you get a moving violation, show up in court b/c often the officers do not so you can get out of it.
The question for a majority of drivers (or a very large minority…) is not whether to best the Speed Limit, but by how much.
Of course a cop can bust you for doing 1 over. But in my experience and all the stories I have gleaned, neither I nor anyone I know has been ticketed for doing less than 10 over the limit.
I was once pulled over in Arkansas doing 79 in a 70 – with Iowa plates – but the officer just said he was checking us out due to the OOS plates, and wanted to make sure I wasn’t too tired or intoxicated to be driving. (it was like 10pm). No ticket.
ETA:
Here in Iowa speed cameras are allowed. I have been caught a few times by those. But those do not zap you unless you’re doing like 11-12 over (or more).
When I have been stopped by a cop, it’s always been like 15 or more over. Once on my way to work I was doing like 68 in a 45, on a stretch of county road that I drove every day. He cut me a break and wrote the ticket for 10 over. I was, as usual, pleasant and cooperative. I have found that such behavior usually helps, and even when it doesn’t, it certainly doesn’t hurt.
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The disagreement is that this wouldn’t upset me at all. I wouldn’t go around calling the cops liars and thinking they were inherently devious. I would get a chuckle out of it the next day with my coworkers. They already call me the Bank Thief, since one time while running I was followed by a cop - who shone his light on me from a parked position and then followed me slowly and then passed back/forth 3 times until he drove away. It did scare me (I wasn’t in a great area) until I realized it was a cop. Then later, I read the papers I read that someone had been breaking into bank ATMs at night. And here I had stopped to check my watch by a bank ATM wearing a black ski mask 
Go figure…
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Oh surely you have never exceeded the speed limit and/or have ever gotten a speeding ticket to go along with the $10K or so parking tickets you have gotten. And, you haven’t answered, did your company pay for or reimburse you for some/many/all of those tickets?
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Exactly. A reasonable mistake, cops are only human. And no, I don’t think they have any obligation to tell you they are looking for a similar car in connection with a crime, so that you can post it all over twitter and provide actual criminals with useful info to escape.
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Some but not all. Every over the time limit parking meter ticket.
There’s a saying about speeding, and whether you’ll get pulled over. “Eight is great, but nine your mine.” I don’t think that’s true anymore, though, because speeding is so rampant at this point.
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So perhaps they paid for the ones that “could” have initially been in a legit parking space , but not blatant ones like blocking a loading zone, bus stop, what have you…