It was stolen or this guy is a dumbass.

car mcburnfuel

am a burnt-out human being

Can an abandoned burnt-out farker get 3 tickets to bonaroo?

AH! MY CAR! DAMMIT!

/Pedestrianism Sucks

I guess having a brain would be required for this sort of work.

well i guess they better park it somewhere else then.

A lot of silly tags today. Remember, just a couple of months ago (or less), no one used the silly tag. When someone finnaly used it, all the newbies were shocked. I {HEART} the silly tag.

In the three minutes it took me to run inside my house and grab my backpack, an overzealous Austin metermaid gave my car a ticket while it was parked in my driveway (its semi-busy street) with the flashers on while the engine was running. I think he/she was in cahoots with a towing company as well because one was driving down the street when I walked out, assumably to tow me. She was in such a hurry to print the ticket that she miskeyed my license plate. Idiot.

420 smoke weed every day

peachy.

Now, which idiot is going to declare this ludicrous and just another example of a deteriorating society with no personal responsibility.

Man, let me tell you...this is ludicrous and it's just another example of a deteriorating society with no personal responsibility.

You have 30 minutes to move your car.
You have 10 minutes to move your car.
You have 5 minutes to move your car or it will be torched into slag.
You have 30 minutes to move your slag.

I don't know about you, but I will certainly sleep well tonight knowing that America is no longer the only country with police officers that have entirely too much time on their hands.

My car was stolen a while back. It was driven to San Francisco, where it sat for three weeks with the windows rolled down.

We reported it stolen to the police, California Highway Patrol and our insurance company within 20 minutes of it disappearing. It was given a ticket the next day (the day after it was stolen).

And the cops called us three weeks later. "We found your car."

shiat.

HA! demotivate

/milkshake rapidly exiting nostrils

this is completely ludicrous.

I swear to god people, don't you see this as a sign of our disentregrating society? People have no personal responsibility these days.

Crap. I go inside for one measly minute to get more gasoline for the fire, and wouldn't you know it? A parking ticket. From now on I'm blowing up my car in a garage.

What disturbs me most about this story is that a car on fire is so inconsequential in Edinburgh.

Just brings home how small Calgary is even at close to a million people: an abandoned car on fire would make the evening news and there would be a big police investigation (I exaggerate only slightly). At the very least, the burned out car wouldn't be left were it was.

I wouldn't want to live somewhere where a car can be on fire and nobody cares.

2004-03-02 07:29:54 PM aarkwilde

And you'll have to pay the ticket. I recommend alcohol over the obvious other choice (you know, involving the water tower and the high-powered rifle).

2004-03-02 07:24:18 PM indiepress

You got a ticket in your own driveway? Aren't you allowed to shoot people tresspassing on your land in Texas?

Tyres?

How IRONIC!!

/hides

austin parking nazis are among the worst. I've gotten several tickets of a questionable nature.

My favorite would be for putting my front bumper a whole 6 inches into the dreaded yellow curb...

(in austin, a yellow painted curb means you can't park along it. They're often randomly placed for no apparent reason, or there will be a stretch of unpainted parkable area, followed by a yellow one, then more unpainted...)

Tyres?

You know. Those circular things on cars. The things that help it move. Wheels.

You spell it with an "i" instead of a "y" but you'd have to be stupid not to be able understand what it is and why it is like that.

tyres = british spelling for tire.

At least thats an obvious one... now figure out what they mean by "the boot" and "the bonnet"

2004-03-02 07:37:37 PM zorgon
You got a ticket in your own driveway?

Part of my bumper extended onto the sidewalk, so I was cited for "obstructing" it.

In Philly on my way from a concert, I saw a car under a bridge overpass that was abandoned, stripped for parts and possibly burnt a bit with about 30 tickets littering the windshield.

If you check the bridge near 6th and 7th street around the Electric Factory, I'll put $20 that says it's still there.

"At least thats an obvious one... now figure out what they mean by "the boot" and "the bonnet"

Oh yeah? Our cars get BRAS and um, crap. Little help?

2004-03-02 07:51:38 PM indiepress

Right. Jeebus. If they gave out those kind of tickets around here, the cities would be flush... for a while anyway.

So what's the problem? Get a VIN off the engine block and make person that owns it, move it.

LineNoise

I think you can buy portable welding torches at hardware stores. Or... You should try TO submit a bill to parking enforcement for bus fees and the like. Just to see what happens.

i wanna put a boot on that little golf-cart POS that the meter maids ride around in... since they are always obstructing stuff or are parked in front of fire hydrants

here's a picture of the car:



the parking enforcer is definitely not too bright

another story about it

Another story was pretty interesting:

"Driver who lassoed speed camera fined 1,000"

Seems hundreds of speed cameras in the UK and Ireland have been vandalized, even dynamited! Why don't they just spray over the lenses with black spray paint?

It would have been funnier if a dumbass parking officer had put a boot on that car...

On a related story, I used to work near a trendy part of Toronto where you'd see a lot of corporate types driving around in their beemers and benzes. They park anywhere, in front of fireplugs, disabled zones, blocking traffic..

These guys figure because they are rich that they are beyond the law...NOT!

There's no more beautiful sight than seeing one of these Arami-clad asshats unsuccesfully arguing with a 300-pound tow truck driver about to drag the love of his life to an impound lot!

HA HA!

2004-03-02 09:31:55 PM memphomaniac
Another story was pretty interesting:

"Driver who lassoed speed camera fined 1,000"

Seems hundreds of speed cameras in the UK and Ireland have been vandalized, even dynamited! Why don't they just spray over the lenses with black spray paint?

Because they were caught on the film inside the camera and they are trying to destroy the evidence. That was a funny article. Almost a quarter of the speed cameras get blown up or otherwise destroyed.

Ironically for that particular guy, the camera was OUT OF FILM when he set it off.

Was the car illegally parked? If so, what is the problem?

Another win for privatization. Much like the traffic enforcement cameras popping up across the US, private firms getting involved is a nightmare waiting to happen.

Those &*(@#$&*(@#$ people will do ANYTHING to get extra cash from the state, and then based on the private firms judgement call you have to argue with the state about your assumption of guilt. Due to the private firm looking to make extra money. Bah.

Speaking of extra money, I walked out to my car on Sunday to discover that some local policeman had ticketed me for not having a local city sticker. Keep in mind they had to drive a fair distance - onto private property - in order to write up that $15 ticket. Rather than give in and contribute money to the beer-n-hooker fund (aka city vehicle stickers), I'm going to change my registration address to one in a town I hardly ever visit... that'll stymie the hardly-working rookies who are invariably assigned to sticker-patrol. Except for the over-zealous ones who write tickets for their town, when only the town of registration can write them.

Gotta love the boys in blue, so hard working, so diligent, so completely void of useful things to do that they're stuck doling out a ticket that doesn't even pay for the time it took them to write out the ticket. Couple that with the local PDs fingerprinting and mug-shotting people committing anything beyond minor moving violations (yes, even some speeding tickets require a trip to the police station), and it just generates warm fuzzies in my chest. Looks like 1984 will have been off by 30 years.

Just for grins, I'd like to own one of the following and park it in a tow-away zone, just for grins:

A) A lowrider or pickup that rests completely on the ground, tucking 20" rims up so far into the body it can't be booted or towed, and the VIN covered/tags removed.

B) A great big 4X4 truck with 44" X 18" tires and a 15" lift or something, also sans tags and hidden VIN tag on the (now 8' high) dashboard.

Towing companies typically won't tow lifted or lowered vehicles, and neither of the above would be safe to flatbed. Can't fit a boot over either type of tire, and can't even ticket it without a VIN or License plate number, right? Install some fancy alarm or remove the ignition coil lead so it can't be broken into and driven away.

I swear I would hide in the bushes with a videocamera to tape the frustration of the meter maid and tow operator, giggling like a madman.

/loves playing Devil's Advocate.

should have tagged it for loitering too.