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- From: fred_s@netcom.com (Frederick Scott)
- Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing,ba.news
- Subject: Re: Man opens parking meters
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.181759.17584@netcom.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:17:59 GMT
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- jpglori@srv.PacBell.COM (JOHN) writes:
-
- >> I was visiting up in the city and got a ticket for not curbing my
- >>wheels on a sloping surface (about a 3% grade). Since the ticket
- >>didn't say why I was ticketed, I asked the officer (who was going up the
- >>street ticketing about 1 in 4 cars for the same thing) who told me that
- >>since the city is losing so much revenue in parking meter fees, they are
- >>enforcing obscure and little known sections of the vehicle code.
- >>
- >Again, I forget the figures, but it is costing THE CITY and related
- >businesses, i.e., tow trucks, storage places(?), hundreds of
- >thousands of dollars per week because of loss revenues.
-
- Hmmm. They announced last night on the news (KCBS AM740) that the city had
- lost appoximately $2000 stolen from the machines in the recent rash. Your
- "hundreds of thousands of dollars" seems somewhat excessive in light of that.
- Although clearly there's more money involved than just what's lost from
- the machines. And I don't count upgrading the meters as part of what's been
- lost. Whatever - I don't think it justifies enforcing meaningless and little-
- known statutes just to make up the revenues. If not curbing your wheels in
- a given situation is truly dangerous, they should be enforcing all the time,
- otherwise, not at all.
-
- Fred
-