Why are you taking the side of the MFFYs and IBJAMs?

In the second episode I saw, some loser runs out in his underwear to
where the guys are booting his MERCEDES and gives them a big sob story
about how he has been unemployed for months. Listen, douchebag, if
you're unemployed, and you're too stupid to not get parking tickets
that you can't afford to pay, then maybe you should sell your
ridiculously expensive car and start taking the f.cking bus.

As one guys said, "I don't GIVE out tickets - people gotta EARN 'em."
In every single case the people getting the tickets CLEARLY deserved
them. One FedEx truck had been double-parked so long it had TWO
violation noticed on its windshield. Perhaps that's what bothers you
about the show, hmm??? Are you one of those IBJAM Truckers who thinks
it's OK to double-park and block people in while you make your
delivery? Do you get a lot of (well-deserved) parking tickets??

(snip)

No, I totally disagree.  I guess it depends on how you interpret what you
see.  The way I see it, the show can't possibly be GOOD for the PPA, and
it's obviously NOT sided in favor of the meter maids.  This is what I wrote
earlier....

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That Parking Wars program was billed as some kind of human interest story,
idea being that meter maids are human, and if we could just walk in their
shoes for a while, we might learn that they are lovable (or at least
likeable) human beings.

Actually, after watching just two episodes of that program, it seems to have
back-fired, in my case.  If anything, I think those morons are worthy of the
disgust that most people feel when they hear the term "meter maid".  Just
doing their job?  Yeah, if mindlessly causing ordinary people no end of
headaches for no reason other than financial gain can be called a "job".

In one episode I saw, the lady (I'll be kind) was actually shown hiding
around the corner waiting impatiently and GLEEFULLY for 4PM, when she could
ticket and tow a bunch of cars that were -legally- parked, but which were
required to be moved by 4PM.  It was so stereotypical, I couldn't believe
that they actually AIRED that.  People think of meter maids watching their
watches for the second that the meter expires and writing tickets in advance
so they can pounce the moment the red flag pops up.  THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT SHE
WAS DOING!!!  But she took it a step further, and had the cars towed.   God,
it made my blood boil watching that.

I've had to dispute parking tickets that I did not deserve, so these kind of
tactics really piss me off.  In one case, I parked between two signs stating
that I couldn't park between the signs after 5PM.  I was parked there from
12PM to 2PM, and found a parking ticket on my car at 2PM when I went to
leave.  Got the ticket dismissed eventually, but it still ruined my whole
f.cking afternoon.  Bastards.  I mean, first I had to find the place where
they expected me to pay the parking ticket, then I had to find the office
where disputes were handled, then I had to fill out a dispute form (in
triplicate, no less), then I had to find another office in another building
so I could deliver it in person.  (or I could have mailed it in, but I was
so pissed I wanted it settled, and not be told later that they never
received the right form, etc.)  By the time I left that town (I didn't live
there) it was almost dinner time, and I should have been home hours ago.
The alternative would have been to pay the fine.  Then years later, the DMV
would refuse to renew my registration, claiming I had an unpaid parking
ticket from...  (I've had THAT happen to me also . . . no UNPAID parking
tickets, but DMV records screwed up, so my car registration was held for
ransom until I proved my innocence.  Like I need THAT headache, right?)

In another episode of parking wars, they showed the boot team.  What really
pissed me off about them, yeah I know they have a job to do but...

They are driving slowly down the street entering **** EVERY **** plate
number they see into a computer system until they find one with unpaid
parking tickets.  When the computer comes up with a match, they boot it.
Whether it's legally parked or not.  Considering how f.cked up state records
get in regards to parking tickets and whether they are paid or not, I just
KNOW that some poor guy has found his car booted due to parking tickets he
didn't know he had, or parking tickets that he PAID ALREADY.  This probably
happens frequently.  But I doubt if they'll show THAT GUY on TV.  But they
glorify the booting squad like they are f.cking heroes or something.  It
makes me ill just thinking about it.   -Dave