Posted on 11/07/2017 5:24:25 AM PST by JP1201
You've probably driven through Newburgh Heights on Interstate 77.
92,000 cars travel through the village’s jurisdiction every day.
But the tiny village has a big secret. And 5 On Your Side Investigators are exposing it.
Over the last 3.5 years, the government of Newburgh Heights has sanctioned a scam that has taken thousands of dollars from insurance companies and drivers.
(Excerpt) Read more at news5cleveland.com ...
...and you couldn’t have squeezed out just a TINY bit more info on this to help us decide?
I suspect 100% klik bate.
Class action. Take them to court for false billing. Nearly all munies in the country, if not the world, do this in one way or another.
“And what is Newburgh Heights charging for? Calling the cops for an accident. “
It is actually an interesting article.
“It is actually an interesting article.”
I agree. Well written. Clear to understand. Sad that is the exception rather than the rule today in “News” reporting.
JP1201 on Free Repub since Aug 4, 2017.....Hmmmmm
Using the City’s reasoning and Logic, Citizens should be able to SUE Public Employees, including Cops writing traffic tickets, for their Time if initiated by the Public Employee.
Mu hourly rate is $360, if you consume 30 minutes of MY TIME to write me a ticket I should be allowed to COLLECT my Fee from YOU PERSONALLY!
Yup. These jerks posting this crap should be banned.
Not even a hint to what the scam is. Perhaps it’s a toll. Perhaps it’s dancing pygmies. Perhaps it’s top secret.
It is pretty good, but they ommitted one point:
Trevor Elkins is the Democratic Mayor of Newburgh Heights. Not that it really matters—many GOP mayors are money-grubbing pigs as well. This scam screams “class action” to any enterprising young lawyer.
“It is pretty good, but they ommitted one point:
Trevor Elkins is the Democratic Mayor of Newburgh Heights. Not that it really matters—many GOP mayors are money-”
Very Good point. In cases reported by the liberal newsmedia... when no political party is mentioned for one or more of the participants ...I tend to go to my default position.... They are members of the “Rat” party.
But that is just me! ;)
The city of Driscoll, Tx is similar. A speed trap - on Interstate 69 with a traffic light (how does an Interstate not have a bypass or overpasses?), and a school zone where I have never seen kids walking, which is over 3/4 of a mile long, and only drops the speed from 40 to 30. Don’t go 2 miles an hour over, there will be several radars at work.
Their big scheme was stopping the Central American entrepreneurs who were buying cars and hauling them back home. The cops stopped all of them, and confiscated the cars because they exceeded their towing capacities. The impound fees were ridiculous, so the city sold the cars to fill their coffers. The state finally stepped in and killed this scheme. This is a TINY town. I take a route that is longer to avoid this town when I have to travel south.
Think this is bad? Try north county St. Louis County some time.
“Not even a hint to what the scam is. Perhaps it’s a toll. Perhaps it’s dancing pygmies. Perhaps it’s top secret.”
Seriously. You read the thing and you are still clueless?
The scam is that the village exists, seemingly, to support the bloated police department. They have to find novel ways to raise money because the tax base will not support that large a department.
Is it any worse than fees charged by ambulance and fire departments for response and services? I even know of a for profit medical helicopter service who charges a fee if fire/ems puts the crew on stand by alert but the flight is later cancelled. The cops in this town are just getting their cut of the pie, as wrong as it may seem. If the fees keep taxes spent on policing from rising, maybe the practice should expand elsewhere. Still it just does not seem right in a twentieth century way.
Real local news channel
Broadcast media still does not take into consideration Internet readership/viewership.
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