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The stunning response I received after thanking a parking enforcement officer
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| October 27, 2018
| Joshua Rogers
Posted on 10/27/2018 11:55:26 AM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
I was working at investigating an old landfill. My client warned me about the owner - he had hit an EPA guy with a shovel and chased him off his property for trespassing. (The EPA guy WAS trespassing - not there on an allowed day).
When the owner drove up and saw us working I got all nervous, but gave him a wave and a smile. He knew we would be out there, and asked what we were doing. I explained it all to him in detail. And let slip a few remarks the were a bit derogatory to the EPA.
Things like: “Well - they want us to check it out, but with all this brush and trees growing - it can’t be all that bad - right?”
He was as friendly as can be. Later in the day he brought us out a bunch of cold water. Days later I had mentioned to my client that the owner had been to the site. “Oh - great - what happened!!?”
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posted on
10/27/2018 12:47:57 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(!)
To: dp0622
I never liked the idea myself.
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posted on
10/27/2018 12:48:27 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(.....been here this long you actually expect me to read the article....)
To: jazusamo
some of the articles on Fox are a bit preachy for my taste.
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posted on
10/27/2018 12:49:06 PM PDT
by
ronniesgal
(I wonder what his FR handle is?????)
To: Delta 21
Cool Hand Luke. Nice.
Earily reminiscent to One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest.
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posted on
10/27/2018 12:51:54 PM PDT
by
HandyDandy
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To: jazusamo
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posted on
10/27/2018 12:55:16 PM PDT
by
Truthoverpower
(The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
To: dp0622
Not wasting energy, time, and verbal ammo is lazy..
Who knew!
Well, feel free to waste yours spewing at someone who has no power to change it.
With that philosophy, I’ll bet you’re a busy little bee. Not very effective and/or efficient, but busy.
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posted on
10/27/2018 12:58:10 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
10/27/2018 12:58:23 PM PDT
by
MEG33
(Help Shorten FReepathons......DONATE MONTHLY)
To: gubamyster
Thanking meter maids - not so much. Parking is nothing but a cash cow racket for the city & towing industry.
Agree. The main reason for parking enforcement is to keep people from occupying spaces all day and make them available for others. But I have been walking down a street with a plethora of empty metered spaces and seen a meter maid walk right up to the lone car on that street and ticket it. In violation of some rule? Probably. Was that violation harming anyone at that moment? Not likely. But the city wants some money.
Check out the comments on some of the British news sites. The councils have made parking so costly, including fines, that they are killing local businesses. Their customers will opt to shop online rather than face the merciless wrath of the meter people the author in this article applauds.
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posted on
10/27/2018 12:59:31 PM PDT
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: Truthoverpower
I hear its always intense.
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posted on
10/27/2018 1:04:44 PM PDT
by
Disambiguator
(Keepin' it analog.)
To: mewzilla
They’re Just Following Orders.
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posted on
10/27/2018 1:05:43 PM PDT
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: jazusamo
the awkward 12-year-old at church, the withdrawn dad who sits alone at soccer games,
___________________________________________
Umm... Might be that that “dad” has his mind filled with what he wants to do to that awkward 12 year old.
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posted on
10/27/2018 1:07:44 PM PDT
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: LostInBayport
The councils have made parking so costly, including fines, that they are killing local businesses. The same thing in many cities here. Businesses complain the cost of parking is driving (so to speak) away business. Not only is the parking exorbitant but if your're late, the fines are $39 or $50 dollars.
You are correct, the intended purpose should be to circulate vehicles, opening up spots but it has turned into a revenue generator.
To: jazusamo
I’m nice to people all the time, but don’t write articles about it.
> If Im willing to lay down my pride and unleash some kindness
You have to “lay down your pride” to be kind to someone. WTF.
And you don’t do it until SOMEONE ELSE tells you the job sucks.
To: jazusamo
Calling it your job don't make it right.-Lucas Jackson
To: Teacher317
It is not a conservative ideal to verbally abuse (or worse) those who are enforcing simple rules. Actually what a lot of us are taking issue with is the view that all meter maids are wonderful people just doing a job (like say the washroom janitor whose service we all appreciate). There are a lot of stories here about meter maids abusing their authority to issue tickets to folks who are trying to follow the rules. There is no law that says you have to overpay your meter by 20% or that a ticket can be issued any time in the ten minutes prior to meter expiration.
To: StAnDeliver
I practice it whenever possible.
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posted on
10/27/2018 1:43:56 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
To: AndyJackson
I went to pay a parking ticket, put in all the time needed plus 5 minutes into the meter, got back to my car and found ANOTHER ticket on the windshield.
I was quite firm with the city clerk when I returned with photos.
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posted on
10/27/2018 1:45:14 PM PDT
by
Don W
(When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: jazusamo
In other words, thank you for the petty tyranny. Let me lick your boots.
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posted on
10/27/2018 1:49:36 PM PDT
by
UnwashedPeasant
(Trump is fixing the world's problems just to distract us from Russia.)
To: jazusamo
Admittedly, complimenting a parking-enforcement officer would be a very hard thing to do.
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posted on
10/27/2018 1:50:37 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: jazusamo
Here's a funny clip about a parking ticket.
https://youtu.be/kxPgia7-QRg
Meter readers are useless people doing evil work. I paid $1,500 yearly in parking tickets when living in Berkeley. Sacramento receives $30 million yearly from Bay Area parking fees. Downtown Oakland has parking meters on every street and downtown Oakland remains empty. Ventura placed parking meters on Main Street to generate income and all the small business owners complain about low customer sales. And another thing...
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posted on
10/27/2018 2:07:16 PM PDT
by
Falconspeed
("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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