[MississippiMasterpiece]

Corruption in Chicago...who'd a thunk it?

[zzen01]

Another Blue State... humm!?

[RobRoy]

I've been to Chicago three times in the last six years. I have to wash it off every time I come home. You can feel the sleaze in the air over there.

[DmBarch]

It has been 20 years since I lived in Chicago. Parking was just as tough then. So you have to look around - you can quickly recognize someone looking for parking - I call them "seekers". I lived around Wrigley Field and never got a ticket. When I had an apartment on the 3200 Block of Lake Shore Drive, I found that I needed to find private parking because too much time and effort went to find a street space. But that is the exception, highrises along the lake shore. When I moved again to 3100N & 1200W, there was reasonable street parking. The only problem was in the winter. If I didn't want to walk too far, I had to settle for a space across from the small factory that made Reed Root Beer Barrel Candy. The steam from their vents would freeze on the car windows, making an extra three minutes of ice scraping.

This is a long-winded way to say that the people with all the tickets are lazy. That they got caught up in a spoils system by the city only matters because they kept getting and ignoring tickets.

[Matttheconservative]

I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help you.

[AlaskaErik]

As long as the people put corrupt politicians into office they will have to deal with the corruption that follows. As for me, I'd never want to live in those urban hellholes.

[Fiddlstix]

Corruption in Chicago...who'd a thunk it?

Nawww...........
You gotta be puttin' me on.....

[Paul C. Jesup]

That's right. The city sold a 3-year-old car for $125.54.

I can understand the corrupt logic in the city stealing cars and selling them for like 3 or 4 thousand dollars per car. But for selling cars this cheaply, what the city government is doing is pure sadism.

[NoClones]

Chicago: the place that was the first to extend to all the right to vote dem...even the dead!

[dila813]

now I know why I don't go downtown blue land

[Petruchio]

No wonder that King Richie II does not want anyone to own guns . . .

[Logical me]

One way to put a curb on it is to get a group together to sponsor a ballot measure on the next election that would transfer the amount owed to the person that bought the car from the impound yard.

[lowbridge]

bump

[atomicpossum]

"The owner of the vehicle is still liable for all fines and fees even if the city disposes of the vehicle," Sanchez said.

They've deprived me of property far in excess of the amount owed. They've more than been paid-- if they sell the item for a pittance, then that's their own idiocy.

Chicago-- it's technically America.

[STARWISE]

Disgusting scumbags!!! As a new resident to Chicago, I am appalled at the Korrupt Kingdom of Mayor Daley. How much longer will these antics be tolerated? This is organized crime .. a legal syndicate .. pure and simple.

[RightWingFreedomFighter]

WHAT!?!?!? I wonder if Chicago has heard of the "takings clause". Althought the takings clause doesn't apply to the state directory it does de facto apply to the state by other means. It applies to the states through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, First English, 482 U.S. at 310 n.4; see also 2 Ronald D. Rotunda & John E. Nowak, Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure 523 (3d ed. 1999).

[atari]

they are doing something like this in providence, RI

but instead with houses...

some old person is a little late on a bill, or sometimes never gets the bill. their house is auctioned off (to the same real estate co. that gets it all the time.) and the real estate company sells it off for a lot of profit.

they also had the tow trucking problem years ago as well, but that guy and the city mayor went to jail.

[paul51]

The same type of thing goes on all over the country. Cities desperate for funds have set up all kinds of scams to rip off the public, many of them having to do with 'enforcement' of stupid parking laws. To protect and serve. What a joke. Public officials and employees long ago forgot who they work for and who pays them and the citizens have let them get away with it.

[HighWheeler]

This is the level of ethics found in America's blue counties.

They harbor more than one species of rat.

[VOA]

Corruption in Chicago...who'd a thunk it?

If you visit Los Angeles, don't bring your own car.

Trying to decipher the plethora of signs concerning where and when you can
park is sufficient to overwhelm a PhD in hieroglyphics.

Like lots of DemocRAT rules of governance, it's a system guaranteed to
work for the city machine and screw anyone wishing that's really trying
to get ahead or promote the competition (free enterprise) to the
political ruling class.

[HighWheeler]

Rev. Calvin Bridges of the Chicago Praise Ministries:
"There's spiritual wickedness in high places."


Allow me to modify your statement there, Rev, "There's spiritual wickedness in blue counties."