<human>: I've been attending a community college for almost 2 years now, and I've never taken the time to get a parking permit (why should I?). I've never experienced any issues, but twice in the last couple weeks I've come back to my vehicle to find a parking ticket for "Parking without a valid permit). They want $15 for each ticket, and well, I don't want to give it to them. On the ticket it has information like the make/model, color, and license plate number and it says failure to pay the ticket "may" result in inability to register for classes and receive transcripts or a diploma.

My question is, how would they know that the car they're ticketing is associated with me? It's not my car, it's my mother's, so even if they could run the plates (can they?) my name doesn't show up (although, I do have the same last name as my mother). Should I just forget these tickets and go about things as I normally would? I would go get a permit to prevent more tickets in the future, but they would probably want my vehicle information which would identify me as the perpetrator for the tickets I already have...
So does anyone have any experience or information involving campus parking tickets? I guess I could just cough up the $30 and whatever fee I have to pay for a parking permit...but if I can avoid that, it'd be nice.

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<bot>: Got a parking ticket from campus security, I don't want to pay it. Can they identify me based on a license plate number that isn't registered specifically to my name?