That's right, Officer. My Daddy's station wagon has been idling for over 5 minutes now.
Posted on 04/29/2019 7:44:29 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Dropping a dime on trucks and buses that keep their engines running while parked is paying big bucks to some New Yorkers. The number of summonses issued for violating the city’s anti-idling law skyrocketed to 1,038 last year — up from just 24 in 2017 — following the creation of a reward program for ratting out offenders, The Post has learned. Meanwhile, the city Department of Environmental Protection has handed out nearly $20,000 to 13 whistleblowers who each got a 25 percent share of the fines generated by their tips, according to official data.
Leading the list is lawyer David Dong, who pocketed $4,912.80 from 47 summonses, followed by theater worker Zachary Tinkelman, who scored $4,600, also from 47 summonses. Their payouts differed because fines for idling for more than three minutes — or one minute in a school zone — range from $350 to a maximum $2,000 for a repeat offense. Four of Dong’s bounties involved repeat offenders, which netted him two payments of $375 each and another two of $250.
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What a ding-dong. Who would hire a lawyer who goes around ratting out his fellow citizens?
How Stalinesque.
Chairman Mao is smiling in his grave
Imagine if ICE paid for information about illegal aliens......
I hope they reported that income to the IRS and NY State Tax authorities.
It would be a shame if they didn’t.................
No side to root for here - the people who insist on double-parking (engines on or not), and the Stasi-style informants. We see repeatedly what the ideal society of the American Left is, and it’s Erich Honecker’s East Germany.
Bunch of Cindy Brady tattletales.
#8 I am reading this and I click on the link and now see a story about Maureen McCormick. I hate being tracked.
lolol
But you've gotta give Kommrad Honecker credit for one thing...he made sure that every East German had work.
But pay *was* another issue.
I liked the “Honecker” joke in “The Lives of Others”
Honecker greets the Sun, saying: “Good morning, dear Sun!”
“Good morning, dear Honecker” the sun replies.
Honecker works, and then at noon he heads to the window and says: “Good day, dear Sun!”
“Good day, dear Honecker!” the sun replies.
In the evening, Honecker calls it a day, and heads once more to the window, and says: “Good evening, dear Sun!” There is no response.
Hearing nothing, Honecker says again: “Good evening, dear Sun! What’s the matter?” The sun retorts: “Screw you. I’m in the West now!”
ICE should give a similar cut of fines to people who inform on employers of illegal aliens.
Wish I could “make bank” ratting out idling diesels. The ambulances and armored trucks that always seem to be parked at building entrances are a danger to public health.
> Bunch of Cindy Brady tattletales.
Good!
New York City
Socialist hell
That's right, Officer. My Daddy's station wagon has been idling for over 5 minutes now.
Didn’t the Soviets and east bloc countries encourage the kids to rat out their parents?
Didn’t the Soviets and east bloc countries encourage the kids to rat out their parents?
Pavlik Morozov
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