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Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:12 pm
Posted by Beaux Man
Satsuma, AL
Member since May 2020
165 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:12 pm
Went to visit family in the hospital there in early October. Went downtown to eat at the Iron Horse Grille (great meal btw). Wasn’t wild about parking in the street and found a fenced parking area across from Union Station a block or so away. Had a sign with a WR code to scan and pay and input tag number when I did. $3.80 with card fee if memory serves. Paid it with CC. This month get a letter in the mail and another a week later from a Vanguard Parking Systems of Hollywood FL with an invoice for $90 or so. They’re saying we didn’t pay and will not accept bank statement as proof of payment. Wife tried to dispute it with their online and phone system. No luck so far. Anyone familiar with this and how to combat it? Cheaper to pay the $90 than to take off work, hire an atty etc etc etc but I suppose that’s what they count on.

Any suggestions besides avoid Jackson MS?
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
73443 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:15 pm to
You're gonna have to bang someone's wife to get even.
Posted by Cotten
Tennessee
Member since Jan 2018
1718 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:17 pm to
Vanguard is a private company, and this is a private debt. Throw the ticket in the garbage.

FYI: They're going to blow you up with mail threatening to send you to collections, throw those in the garbage too.
Posted by jorconalx
alexandria
Member since Aug 2011
10507 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:21 pm to
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Any suggestions besides avoid Jackson MS



Ignore it. They can’t do anything but bug the shite out of you
Posted by Black n Gold
Member since Feb 2009
15794 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:31 pm to
quote:

Ignore it. They can’t do anything but bug the shite out of you


Keep your wife from checking the mail. Women tend to get nervous about dumb shite like this and pay it.
Posted by chinhoyang
Member since Jun 2011
25508 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:34 pm to
pretty convenient to reject any proof that you made payment

All of these "pay on time or the private contractor makes a ton of money" government programs are scams. Shreveport's traffic cameras are one of the biggest.
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
128712 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:37 pm to
You went to downtown jackson and the worst thing that happened is a parking issue?

Consider yourself very lucky
Posted by GetmorewithLes
UK Basketball Fan
Member since Jan 2011
22076 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:38 pm to
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Any suggestions besides avoid Jackson MS?


Dont pay it unless they can show reason for the exorbitant parking fee. No way anybody going to strong arm me via mail.
Posted by chinhoyang
Member since Jun 2011
25508 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:43 pm to
The late fees are extortionary.

The private contractors are almost always out of state - so people can't go by the office and tell them to go F themselves. Shreveport.'s traffic cam contractor is in Tenn, and they used to send letters with a Tenn. return address with the address lead reading "Shreveport Police Department - Traffic Enforcement Division."

I wrote the Tenn Attorney General and said "how does Shreveport have a police department division in Tenn.? They never responded but now the payment letters do NOT identify the company as a "division" of SPD.

I wanted to sue the shite out of the City because the admin hearing officers for cam tickets were City court prosecutors - a huge conflict. But, if you showed up with a lawyer, they would quietly come over and dismiss your client's ticket.

The CIty used prosecutors, even though a clear conflict of interest and unethical under the Code of Ethics for lawyers, because they don't want to spend a penny on cam tickets. They simply want to collect their cut.
Posted by Woodlands Tigah
Tejas
Member since Mar 2021
983 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:44 pm to
Happened to me in New Orleans. Premium parking lot on N. Peters and Bienville sent a bill for $135.

They also said they would not accept the CC statement. When I told them they could go frick themselves, they said they would boot my truck if it was ever in one of their parking lots again.

When I asked how they would know it's my truck, they of course said license plate is on file. When I told her that I had traded the truck in, and that the license plates were in my garage, I politely told her to GFYS again.

Never heard from them again!
Posted by Boston911
Lafayette
Member since Dec 2013
2328 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:54 pm to
quote:

Vanguard is a private company, and this is a private debt. Throw the ticket in the garbage.
Just like with red light tickets, it goes straight in the trash, I probably have three or four companies that have been hounding me for more than five years. It’s never affected my credit.
Posted by tigerbutt
Deep South
Member since Jun 2006
26072 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:58 pm to
Are you serious? Just don’t pay it. It’s not a moving violation or anything. It’s a fake parking ticket.
Posted by EastWestConnection
Denver/Shenzhen/Belfast
Member since Jul 2024
1095 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 5:00 pm to
When I was 22 I worked in the CBD at a restaurant and had to stay late, until 430 pm instead of 330, because some shite head hipster girl I worked with was hungover. So I had to close the store even though I opened at 6 am ( im still mad 20 years later).

I walked the three blocks to my shitty car and the dude had just put a boot on it and it cost me like $130 to get off. It really fricked me up because I was making like 9 dollars an hour and has like 50 extra dollars every week after bills.
Posted by 2 Jugs
Saint Amant
Member since Feb 2018
2292 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 5:29 pm to


Get your credit card involved. They will have this cleared up in no time.
Posted by Herschal
Land of the Free
Member since Sep 2011
2100 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 5:56 pm to
Mostly shocked to hear Iron Horse was good and doing well.

Posted by Barbellthor
Columbia
Member since Aug 2015
10609 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 5:59 pm to
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Jackson MS

Pig & Pint FTW.
Posted by Mister Completely
Marital Bliss
Member since Nov 2007
3156 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 6:13 pm to
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Mostly shocked to hear Iron Horse was good and doing well.


Same here. Had some good meals and great times at Iron Horse...albeit 30-35 years ago. Glad it's still going strong.
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
Member since Nov 2007
82799 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 6:16 pm to
Dude don’t listen to the idiots in this thread. You need an attorney asap otherwise this debt will balloon and destroy your credit, they’ll be able to garnish wages, and possibly even put a lien on your house. And you don’t want to end up in jail on a bench warrant. You need a good lawyer.
Posted by RescueT
Jackson MS
Member since Nov 2019
2684 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 6:22 pm to
I’ve had a couple nasty fires in the iron horse.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
99902 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 6:22 pm to
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You need an attorney asap otherwise this debt will balloon and destroy your credit, they’ll be able to garnish wages, and possibly even put a lien on your house. And you don’t want to end up in jail on a bench warrant


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