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SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE
It was a fight that no one thought he would win, but after beating his parking ticket against the Department of Transportation (DOT), Alex Debogorski is going back to court.

Alex Debogorski holds the notice of appeal he received on Oct. 25 notifying him of the government's intent to overturn a justice of the peace's dismissal of a parking ticket handed to him back in July for illegally parking in front of the airport. - Svjetlana Mlinarevic/NNSL photo

On Oct. 25, Debogorski was served with a Notice of Appeal regarding his $29 July parking ticket handed to him by a DOT enforcement officer at the Yellowknife Airport, which he beat in traffic court last month.

"(The appeal) could be frivolous or it could be because I'm known and people are aware of (the ticket I beat). People are fed up with tickets. It's like taxation," said Debogorski.

"If it's that important as a matter of law, I still believe they're wrong. I wasn't good at defending myself but the justice of the peace made the right decision in voting in my favour. He said I followed the intent of the law and I did follow the intent.”

The Ice Road Truckers star was dropping off his wife at the airport when he got out to take her bags inside. According to him, after leaving her inside the airport he came out to see an enforcement officer writing him a ticket for parking in a No Parking zone. Debogorski said the zone was labeled as Passenger Drop Off which he contends is what he was doing. On Sept. 27, Debogorski fought and won to have his ticket dismissed.

"The attorney general is alleging that the justice of the peace who heard the matter in the first instance made an error of law and the matter is being appealed on that basis," stated Roger Shepard, prosecutor representing the Attorney General of the Northwest Territories, by e-mail last week.

The Department of Transportation was not able to respond due to the matter being before the courts, according to Earl Blacklock, DOT's manager of communications.

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