[atomic_dog]

Welcome to California, owned and operated by the Democrat Party

[Gay State Conservative]

Geeze....simple....give them a phoney name and address.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

It’s not just California, there is too much government everywhere.

[org.whodat]

And Schiffeler broke the law: Dogs are supposed to be on a leash at the beach.

Pay the fine, no one wants to step in your dog's shi*.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

A college professor? A dog named Ayers? And he probably sees no connection with being a liberal and the liberal taking of large amounts of property (money) for relatively minor infractions?

[driftdiver]

Why does anyone who actually works still live in CA? beautiful state but full of lunatics.

Then again, please keep your lunatics, we don’t want them to move here.

[InterceptPoint]

For sure this is the way it is and it will get worse.

I happen to live near Fullerton CA, a city that as a matter of policy uses traffic violations as a major source of revenue. Drive through Fullerton and you will see motorcycle cops all over the place just parked and watching. They tend to park where violations are common and they pick off their victims with ease. Of course I don't drive through Fullerton anymore. I don't go to any of the stores in Fullerton that I used to frequent so it could be that things have changed. I'm sure they've changed for the merchants who now have lower revenue and lower incomes but I doubt if the traffic cops have lowered their revenue raising goals by a dime.

[Krankor]

In Chicago, city inspectors are visiting retail outlets two or three times a month- for the sole purpose of finding violations, issuing fines and garnering revenue.

[Vince Ferrer]

From now until the city and state governments are solvent again, I will be driving about 5 miles an hour under the limit. These taxes are volumtary too.

[Houghton M.]

He was being kind to his dog, keeping him happy. The $245 in fines is nothing compared to what he’d have to pay the doggy psychoanalyst to treat his depressed and neurotic dog. These days people think nothing of dropping a hundred here and a hundred there on doggy treats and doggy care and doggy health insurance and doggy psychiatry.

No?

[ex91B10]

Have we had enough yet?

[Paladin2]

He’s lucky to not have had his dog impounded permanently.

[Chewbacca]

He should tell them he can’t pay and that he requests to be taken to jail.

Then the jail will have to pay for food and lodging.

[D Rider]

Do what the rest of us have done... leave while you still can. Let California sink into the Pacific under its own weight.

I would love to live in the California that I grew up in, but that place doesn't exist, so I left. For that matter I would love to live in the Unites States I grew up in, ...

[AlaskaErik]

This is what I love about Alaska. Regular folks are pretty much left alone. I walk my dog without a leash all the time...while carrying a concealed firearm and nobody bothers me.

[paul51]

Welcome to Carmel. Here's your parking ticket. If they fired these roaming tax collectors and all the bureaucrats behind the scene that feed off the take, they wouldn't need the revenue in the first place. Unfortunately, the problem is self perpetuating. Hire more meter maids and such so they have to write more tickets to pay themselves.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

University professor? Monterey County? Expert on useless Chinese “studies.”

You made your bed, now lie in it....shut up, pay it and quit yer bellyachin’.

[Moltke]

And if he hadn't let the dog off its leash, he would've been sued by the Humane Society or PETA for animal cruelty...why do so many in the US still delude themselves that they live in a "free country"?