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Man Ticketed 170 Times for 'Nothing'

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Tom Feddor
Chicago Tribune / MCT

Tom Feddor got 77 tickets this year alone.

(June 17) -- Tom Feddor racked up 170 parking ticket notices in the last two years -- but his car was not even present at the scenes of the alleged infractions.
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Feddor is not a rogue city driver. He's the holder of a unique license plate number that became the target of a Chicago Department of Revenue glitch, the Chicago Tribune reported.
It turns out parking attendants had been using the number 0 as a test case for new electronic ticketing devices. They had no idea that 0 was an actual assigned plate number nor that it belonged to Feddor and that he was receiving the phony tickets.
Low license plate numbers are typically reserved for state VIPs, but Feddor's 0 plate is a family heirloom. The plate number has been in the Feddor family for almost 40 years, originally assigned to Feddor's grandfather in 1971 for special service to then-Illinois Secretary of State John Lewis.
When the deluge of parking tickets began, Feddor assumed an Illinois higher-up had launched a campaign to get his plate number. But when judges advised him to change his plates as the mistaken tickets began piling up, Feddor was not interested. According to the Tribune, the 39-year-old realtor enjoys having a lower plate number than the governor.
The city is taking measures to ensure registered plate numbers are no longer used for test cases. Feddor will receive refunds on any mistaken tickets he has already paid.
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IB4Dixie2

08:54 PMJun 18 2009

The two best plates are 4Q & 4Q2

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JPuzzleWhiz

08:41 PMJun 18 2009

DiploBrat said: "Here are my two favorite vanity plates- MASTRB8 and DEFEC8. Bet those would get piles of tickets."------------------------------They sure would, and so would plates that said MTHRFKR, SNFBTCH, BSTRDSS, BLLSHT, FCKYU.

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CL 62

08:27 PMJun 18 2009

How's that " Change " working out for you ??

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HRtecman

08:24 PMJun 18 2009

Sad you have to go to court to prove you aren't at fault. What a system of looser WE have created.

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DiploBrat

08:09 PMJun 18 2009

If the cops could read them- LOL!!!

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DiploBrat

08:08 PMJun 18 2009

Here's my two favorite vanity plates- MASTRB8 & DEFEC8. Bet those would get piles of tickets.

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Honeyspcg

08:05 PMJun 18 2009

So what's the big deal, it's Chicago corruption.

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Qcmcd

07:56 PMJun 17 2009

Of course, the fact that both JFK and Lincoln met the the same end is a mere coincidence. Abraham Lincoln's Monetary Policy, 1865 (Page 91 of Senate document 23.) Money is the creature of law and the creation of the original issue of money should be maintained as the exclusive monopoly of national Government. Money possesses no value to the State other than that given to it by circulation.

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Qcmcd

07:45 PMJun 17 2009

TO SEE WHO BLEW JFK AWAY GOOGLE - JFK ORDER #11110

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Earsstinks

07:43 PMJun 17 2009

Some more stupid from stupid ELECTED officials !

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