Vent Time

[rethcir.livejournal.com]

So, yesterday was the 1st wednesday of the month and I get a ticket for streetsweeping. Fine, I haven't gotten any in a while, no big deal. So, I come back from work and park on the other side. As I was leaving this morning, my roommate tells me "They're ticketing you" and I'm like, what the hell now, so I go down, and I realize today is the 2nd thursday of the month. So, I'm out $100 in the space of two days. I like having clean streets as much as the next guy, but if arranging them on back to back days isn't exploitative, I don't know what is. I'm calling my ward alderman.

Comments

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

I don't see how this is exploitative, since it's all clearly labeled.

Boston Streetsweeper (http://bostonsweeper.boston.com/) is a useful reminder for those of us who can't be bothered to keep track on our own.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

Exploitative is when they declare a snow emergency at a time that doesn't allow people to go home and move their cars because they're all at work, and then ticketing them for failure to remove them.

[two-stabs.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[mhofner.livejournal.com]

or declaring a snow emergency on a night when not a single snowflake falls. ah man, that was a good time. [yeah yeah, i know they eventually revoked it, but just think about that guy ticketing all the cars when all the snow ISN'T falling...what a jerk]