Shenzhen traffic police chief is exempted from fines

My mood today is like riding a high-altitude roller coaster, with lows and highs, forming a perfect closed loop.

Last Sunday, my husband took the car to help me take my two children to an open space on the beach to learn roller skating. That place was far away from the city center, in a gap in a luxury area, surrounded by a construction site to be built, and a row of cars parked along the roadside. There wasn't much traffic and it was a dead-end road, so we parked there.

He often complained about back pain and dizziness. For some reason, he was in a particularly high mood that day. Regardless of my persuasion to go back and rest, he insisted on staying with me to wait for the course to end. As a result, when I was about to go home, I found that the traffic police could find this kind of thing in every corner, and posted a parking ticket for illegal parking on my car window, which cost 500 oceans. Why is it so expensive? I haven’t paid a fine for many years, and I feel sad and angry.

According to what I later learned from my colleagues, Shenzhen basically no longer offers a penalty of 200 yuan for illegal parking, and the starting penalty is 500 yuan. In the past, some people were fined 1,000 yuan once, and they were still watched in admiration. Now there are 4 people around me who have received such big fines.

When I first saw the fine, my first thought was that star users can be exempted from fines for the first violation. I don’t know if this concept was pioneered in Shenzhen. When I checked online, I found that several cities are also implementing this policy.

To put it simply, it is a humane measure taken by the traffic police department to encourage car owners to abide by the law. For those car owners who have no violation records within two years, the fine for the first violation can be changed to a warning, stating: It is limited to violations with an amount of less than 500 yuan. Very smart management skills.

I quickly checked the application details online and found that I fully met the conditions for exemption of penalty for the first offense. I couldn't help but have a little fantasy, whether I could be exempted from penalty. Driven by anxiety, I logged into the Shenzhen Traffic Police official account non-stop, but to my chagrin, I discovered that even the violation record had not been entered into the system, and I could do nothing. Experience sharing online tells me that if you meet the conditions for exemption from penalties, you will receive a notification text message automatically sent by the system. So I eagerly checked again and again to see if there were any text messages coming.

The first turning point came this morning. I was putting on my makeup in front of the dressing table and getting ready to go to work, when a crisp text message alert attracted my attention. The lock screen text message showed the first few words, Shenzhen Traffic Police…. I quickly opened my phone to check, and was surprised to find that it was a message reminding me to deal with traffic violation fines in time. It was not a penalty exemption notice at all. My mood was like a needle sticking into a balloon.

I was not even in the mood to go to work, and immediately started to find out why I did not receive the penalty exemption notice. Maybe there was a system error. Unfortunately, there is no relevant information online. After returning to the company, I told my colleagues that I also knew that the probability of errors in the backend calculations was very low, but I still wanted to try my luck at the traffic police brigade in the afternoon.

When the time came to 10 a.m., the second turning point appeared. A clear text message alert sounded again. I glanced at my phone and was so happy that I almost jumped up. The penalty exemption notification came unexpectedly. I told my colleagues around me the good news with a smile. They asked me to treat them, and I naturally agreed. Soon I forwarded the text message to my husband, and he responded immediately, saying that the money he had recovered must be used to eat steak.

In this way, my mood finally settled down after ups and downs.