I can. And my options were:<p>Fight it and risk losing anyway and wasting a day defending myself.  In LA and OC you also have to prepay the ticket and then they refund if you &quot;win&quot;. Oh btw they also charge fees to defend yourself.<p>Just eat the cost of a 45 ticket.<p>I was just starting my first job but this was before this new boom so I didn&#x27;t get paid a whole bunch. But I can see why tickets are considered a tax on the poor. If you get hit with one and you don&#x27;t make enough $$$. You are fucked.<p>Even though I could afford to just pay the 45 ticket it ate away at me that I didn&#x27;t fight it. Why am I being punished when I am pretty certain the meter maid didn&#x27;t even know the law?