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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / April 2008Parking Wars
In today's episode, the following vehicles got parking tickets: * A double-parked FedEx truck * Some arrogant f.ck parked in front of a fire hydrant in his SUV, yapping on his cell phone. The meter maid asked him very politely to move away from in front of the hydrant. The meter maid then went around the block; when he came back, the a.shole was still there yapping, so he got a ticket. "I asked you once, I ain't gonna ask you again." * A bleached-blonde woman who was double parked. The meter maid asks her "What makes you think you can stop in the middle of the street?" "I only turned my back fo' a minnit..." Each and every one of them deserved it. I *love* this show! MFFYs get their come-uppance each and every episode!!  Signature"Dave's not here, man!" - Tommy Chong > In today's episode, the following vehicles got parking tickets: > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > I *love* this show! MFFYs get their come-uppance each and every > episode!! I've got mixed feelings about the show. Yes, watching deserving MFFYs get theirs is gratifying, but the whole "hey, I'm just doing my job" inflexible attitude of many of the PPA employees doesn't garner much respect from me. The boot squad and the tow truck driver they normally feature show a lot more compassion, but most of the the meter maids and the impound yard workers are too often infuriatingly bureaucratic. Favorite repeated line of the show: "Oh, Garfield." Signature~/Garth |"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. Almgren | I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. ******* | And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant." --H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) [Schadenfreud Wars] > but the whole "hey, I'm just doing my job" > inflexible attitude of many of the PPA employees doesn't garner much > respect from me. There is financial incentive for this organizational culture too. Some years ago (late 80s maybe) I read an article on San Francisco's parking enforcement. If memory serves, they could put a meter maid on the street for something like $70k a year lock, stock, and Cushman, and she'd bring in on average 2.5x that in fines. I'm sure the numbers have gone up but I'd bet the proportion is similar. Yet I can exercise my usual propensity for seeing more than one of the several side of most issues. The risk of parking tickets, the Denver Boot, or even getting towed is the only thing that keeps some MFFYs from parking wherever and whenever they please, which is a recipe for chaos in downtown areas that lean that way anyhow, and no small thing in some residential areas too. What that necessity has do to with tickets for blocking your own driveway, or tickets for street-sweeping-day violations regardless of whether the street sweeper will appear that week, and other such specialties of the City -- that's another question entirely. --Joe On Apr 3, 8:03 pm, Ad absurdum per aspera <jtc...@california.com> wrote: > [Schadenfreud Wars] Very nice. E.P. >Yet I can exercise my usual propensity for seeing more than one of the >several side of most issues. The risk of parking tickets, the Denver >Boot, or even getting towed is the only thing that keeps some MFFYs >from parking wherever and whenever they please, which is a recipe for >chaos in downtown areas that lean that way anyhow, and no small thing >in some residential areas too. And it doesn't stop the more hardcore MFFY types. This show has shown people ripping up their tickets, throwing them on the ground (littering), etc. Some of these people have $900 worth of unpaid parking tickets. You need a minimum of three unpaid parking tickets before you're eligible for the boot, so if you get one you're a chronic offender and MFFY runs freely through your blood. These people are incorrigible. >What that necessity has do to with tickets for blocking your own >driveway, or tickets for street-sweeping-day violations regardless of >whether the street sweeper will appear that week, and other such >specialties of the City -- that's another question entirely. I haven't seen any violations of this sort on the show. For the record, I am opposed to tickets in those situations, as well. It's not MFFY to block your own driveway. If anything, it's a nice gesture, as it leaves the regular parkjng spaces free for others to use. Signature"Dave's not here, man!" - Tommy Chong >> In today's episode, the following vehicles got parking tickets: >> [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >inflexible attitude of many of the PPA employees doesn't garner much >respect from me. Funny you should mention that. In this same episode, one of the tow truck drivers, who had "wheels off the ground" and legally could not be compelled to release the vehicle, gave one guy a break and returned his van to him. In another segment, the same meter maid who gave the fireplug-blocking a.shole a chance to move before giving him a ticket called the Animal Rescue folks to help a baby bird that had smacked into a glass window and was possibly injured. So just how much "flexibility" do you think a double-parker deserves? Blocking the street is blocking the street; boxing in legally-parked cars is boxing in legally-parked cars. If you give MFFYs an inch, they will take a mile. I'm all in favor of a zero-tolerance policy for MFFY behavior. Signature"Dave's not here, man!" - Tommy Chong |
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