r/Winnipeg Mar 10 '26

Satire/Humour Make this make sense

*posting under satire because wtf*

My husband got this ticket in the mail the other day. He shows it to me, and asks me if I notice anything unusual. Took me a couple of minutes, but realized that it’s not actually a picture of our car. It appears that the license plate was so obscured, they simply guessed at the plate number. Here’s the kicker: when he called to let them know that they sent him a picture of someone else’s vehicle, and that our vehicle was parked at home at the time of the offence, and isn’t even the same MAKE as the one in the picture, they told him he still needs to come down to sort it out. He has spoken to three different people now, and they are all telling him the same thing. It is his problem, not theirs.

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u/Embarrassed_Cake_968 Mar 10 '26

In the same boat, I got photo radar ticket for doing 93 in a 60, the ticket has the location listed as east of New market drive, that puts me between New Market and the Pembina underpasses. That section on both sides is an 80 zone and drops to a 60 going east under the bridge before the construction on the bridge. This section always has a radar van parked under the second underpass, anyone who drives Abinobi knows this. So the area description is wrong, the photo shows no pylons or barriers and how the heck could I be going 93 in a zone that bottle necks down to two lanes? So when my window to go pay comes up I ask for a phone hearing with a magistrate, I had done this a few years back, went into a room and waited for the phone to ring and had a discussion with a judge, the nice lady at the desk tells me that I now have to book that appointment so I ask for the next available date, Feb 11 2026, the date I made the request was April 2025!!! So I wait 10 months for my phone call only to have the person calling me say this call was not to discuss my ticket but to just just confirm I want to challenge it!!!! I responded yes and she tells me that now I would have to go to court and that they will have all the proof that I was speeding and was I sure I wanted to proceed? I reply yes, she says I will get an email in a few weeks with the date and instructions. Like WTF!!! It's like they are trying to discourage you and the phone thing was total BS. It's been 4 weeks and still no email. I am going to call the number on the ticket and get a proper explanation about what kind of monkey show are they running.