Results tagged “defective”

Queens resident Jimmy Hedin is feeling a different kind of sticker shock this week after a defective vehicle registration decal landed him two $65 parking tickets. As 1010 WINS reports, Hedin parks his car in Rego Park most of the week, "so a few days had passed before he realized he had been issued two tickets for the same offense—failure to properly display a current registration sticker." Hedin appears to have received one of 2.5 million registration stickers backed with defective glue. The adhesive loses its grip and causes the stickers to peel off—a flaw the DMV has acknowledged by offering to replace defective decals for free—so Hedin challenged the tickets in court. A judge dismissed the first ticket on account of the defect, but refused to dismiss the second ticket: "The claim that the sticker became unglued does not present a valid defense." Apparently, even some traffic tickets have more adhesive power than those registration stickers.

Cemusa, the Spanish company that won a $1 billion contract to install new newsstands, bus stops and other street furniture throughout this fair city, hasn’t exactly impressed newsstand owners, some of whom are out of business for a month or longer while the company removes their old stand and puts in the new version (pictured). Previously, owners have complained that the roofs on the new stands leak and the locks are defective; now another problem is that some of the new structures are 9 inches shorter than promised – which is no trifle considering the tight quarters they have to deal with. The whole thing makes one wonder if the government's habit of outsourcing to private contractors is somehow flawed!