"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
03/22/2019 at 14:17 • Filed to: None
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"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
03/22/2019 at 14:17 • Filed to: None | 1
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I’ve written before about how parking rules are just not enforced at the campus where I work. Students park wherever they want and rarely, if ever, get ticketed. I’ve overheard them talking to each other: “....park there all the time, I never get a ticket. UPD doesn’t give a s**t. Today I’m parked next to the President, no joke.” - “Dude, me too - I just move to a different staff lot every few days, been doing it all year...”
This is part of the problem, right here:
Besides the obvious taking up of two spaces, t his is one of two pickups that regularly parks in one ( or simultaneously both) of these “15 minute parking only” spaces - the only two anywhere on campus - that happen to be conveniently located right next to UPD’s office. This truck and the other one that parks there are both owned by UPD officers.
So if they start to enforce the rules on others, they won’t be able to park wherever they want, either.
Like I said, I give up. Life’s too short to worry about where other people park, so long as I can find some place to put my little car and walk my able body into work.
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But it’s a little tempting to call them and report this illegally parked vehicle. “Umm yes we’ll umm... look into it...” *sound of jingling Toyota keys*
Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever
> functionoverfashion
03/22/2019 at 14:29 |
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Let me borrow the keys to your Ford and a chain, and I’ll have the campus lot cleaned up in a day.
Idiots can retrieve their vehicles atop Mt. Washington.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> functionoverfashion
03/22/2019 at 14:29 |
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I got a fix-it ticket once for my car missing its front tag, parked in front of my house. When I went to the Highway Patrol Office to get it signed off, parked at the curb right out front was a Corvette with no front tag. I asked about this and the car belonged to a sergeant who was on duty and the desk officer got very grumpy and kind of, “we’re not going to have this conversation right now.” I let it slide then, but I would not let it slide a second time. I’d kindly and gently insist that the captain be made available and insist that the car be cited.
In your case, I’d take the matter up with a local politician: mayor, council member, whatever. Let
them
pick up the phone and call the chancellor of the school.
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functionoverfashion
> Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever
03/22/2019 at 15:06 |
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lol done
Chariotoflove
> functionoverfashion
03/22/2019 at 15:18 |
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These days, the thing to do is collect a bunch of video evidence and video shame the department. I’m actually kind of surprised they aren’t ticketing because this is usually an easy revenue stream for the university.
smobgirl
> Chariotoflove
03/22/2019 at 17:38 |
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Seriously. I got so many parking tickets in college even when I was following the rules that I can’t believe they’re letting this go! Stuff like, you need to be out of this lot by 10 am on game days, but they’d start ticketing at 9. Or parking slightly crooked and your tire is touching the line, so you’d be fined for taking up two spaces. We did finally learn to just register a false plate with parking services because they couldn’t run the plates on a vehicle to track the owner, so tickets for a plate that wasn’t in their system couldn’t be tied to your eligibility to graduate (etc.) But that was 15 years ago.
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Chariotoflove
> smobgirl
03/22/2019 at 18:19 |
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I wouldn’t be surprised if they now just tow an unidentified plate and wait for the person to come to them.
SpeedSix
> functionoverfashion
03/22/2019 at 19:16 |
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A boot time they do something ...
