[IcedCap]

were actually staking out florists yesterday to catch illegal parkers. The prick who gave me a ticket told me with great pleasure how he'd caught 4 drivers in the same location. Anyone who thinks parking enforcemnt in Toronto has anything to do with road safety or easing traffic flow is a fool, its revenue collection pure and simple, another hidden tax

[ridenrain]

Should be riding a scooter or motorcycle. I heard they get to park free on Torronto.

[Blue_Nose]

"Hidden tax" for people who park in places they aren't supposed to.

Guess what the simple solution to that one is?

[MissT]

Blue_Nose wrote:

"Hidden tax" for people who park in places they aren't supposed to.

Guess what the simple solution to that one is?

Don't buy flowers on Mother's day?

[IcedCap]

Blue_Nose wrote:

"Hidden tax" for people who park in places they aren't supposed to.

Guess what the simple solution to that one is?

if he didn't want me to park there then why didn't he come and tell me instead of hiding, waiting for me to park and then giving me a ticket.

[Blue_Nose]

I think his point would be made a little more effectively with the accompanying ticket.

Maybe it was MCB?

[tritium]

Justice.

[IcedCap]

Blue_Nose wrote:

I think his point would be made a little more effectively with the accompanying ticket.

Maybe it was MCB?

he didn't have a point he just wanted to hand out tickets, all he did was cost the florist a nice bit of business which I told her and hopefully she told him seeing as she was arguing with him as I drove off. Act as holier than thou as you want Blue_Nose but a lot of Toronto Parking Officers are total pricks

[kitty]

i had a strange encounter of my own recently. i was going to the Shopper's Drug Mart on St.Clair and (i think it's) Vaughan Rd. There are cars parked everywhere and traffic and construction... so i pulled up to the curb and dropped of my sister so she could get my other sister's perscription filled while i parked or circled ... whatever came first. Well.... did i forget to mention the police officer in short pants on the bike handing out parking tickets... The guy in his fancy sunglasses yells at me "MOVE" . i just looked at him and asked him if he was talking to me. He responded by yelling "YOU CAN'T PARK THERE" i told him that i wasn't parking, i was leaving so again he yelled "SO MOVE" i told him that i would love to accomodate his request but that at the moment, traffic would not permit me to move and that when i deemed it safe to move forward and to merge with the traffic, that i would move" i should also mention that i said it very calmly and very sarcastically. He kept talking to himself and he got on his bike and pedalled away.

Generally, i speak respectfuly to the police because i have no problems with them, but i can give as good as i get. He was a jerk having a bad day because he was doing a "SHITTY" job.

[Blue_Nose]

IcedCap wrote:

he didn't have a point he just wanted to hand out tickets, all he did was cost the florist a nice bit of business which I told her and hopefully she told him seeing as she was arguing with him as I drove off. Act as holier than thou as you want Blue_Nose but a lot of Toronto Parking Officers are total pricks

I'm about as unholy as anyone can be, but that immaterial to the discussion. If I parked somewhere I wasn't supposed to, I'd expect to get a ticket, prick Parking Officer or not.

If you were in a legitimate parking space and got a ticket, I could see a reason for being upset.

[Dwight]

IcedCap wrote:

were actually staking out florists yesterday to catch illegal parkers. The prick who gave me a ticket told me with great pleasure how he'd caught 4 drivers in the same location. Anyone who thinks parking enforcemnt in Toronto has anything to do with road safety or easing traffic flow is a fool, its revenue collection pure and simple, another hidden tax

I was parked on Maitland this morning - where it's posted you can park for 1 hour. I'm a service technician and was completing a call in one of the nearby condominiums. After completing the job, I returned to my car to put my toolbox back and get a service order for sign-off. I had been parked there for just under 1 hour but to be safe I dedicded it would be best to move the car up the street. After doing this, I looked in the rear-view mirror and noticed a parking enforcement car had just pulled in behind me. I thought I had moved in just in time.

The officer got out, walked right by my car and proceeded to write up a ticket for a van parked several feet in front of me. I returned to the condo, got my service order signed off and then got back to the car to see the PRICK had just placed a ticket under the wiper. I immeadiately tried to explain to him that I had just moved the car from where it had been parked. He argued that he could stll see the chailk mark on the tire and that moving it up the street is 'just playing games'.....(!)

You're a real ASSet to the force Flatfoot.

[Scrappy]

I witness a woman get a parking ticket this summer, she ripped it from her windshield and she chased the Parking Meter Man thingy and when she reached him she started beating him about the head and neck with the ticket. I stood there with my mouth open, it really shouldn't of been but it was funny. He walked away and continued to chalk tires. I guess he's use to being beaten by paper.

[Arctic_Menace]

My Mom was able to outsmart one.

A few years ago when we were helping my Grandma move, she was only parked for about 2 min, and still had the engine running. A Green Hornet(what we call them here in Ottawa) came by and begins to write her a ticket. She tells him that she awas jsut stopped, but he wouldn't hear it, so she gets in the car and drives away. So he thinks that he's smart and pulls jsut ahead and hides himself in a small sidestreet. Little does he know that my Mom knew the neighbourhood like the back of her hand and knew of a spot behind Granna house. So she parked there, and the stupid hornet didn't even notice. What an idiot.

[Dwight]

IcedCap wrote:

Blue_Nose wrote:

I think his point would be made a little more effectively with the accompanying ticket.

a lot of Toronto Parking Officers are total pricks

[canadian1971]

Dwight wrote:

IcedCap wrote:

were actually staking out florists yesterday to catch illegal parkers. The prick who gave me a ticket told me with great pleasure how he'd caught 4 drivers in the same location. Anyone who thinks parking enforcemnt in Toronto has anything to do with road safety or easing traffic flow is a fool, its revenue collection pure and simple, another hidden tax

I was parked on Maitland this morning - where it's posted you can park for 1 hour. I'm a service technician and was completing a call in one of the nearby condominiums. After completing the job, I returned to my car to put my toolbox back and get a service order for sign-off. I had been parked there for just under 1 hour but to be safe I dedicded it would be best to move the car up the street. After doing this, I looked in the rear-view mirror and noticed a parking enforcement car had just pulled in behind me. I thought I had moved in just in time.

The officer got out, walked right by my car and proceeded to write up a ticket for a van parked several feet in front of me. I returned to the condo, got my service order signed off and then got back to the car to see the PRICK had just placed a ticket under the wiper. I immeadiately tried to explain to him that I had just moved the car from where it had been parked. He argued that he could stll see the chailk mark on the tire and that moving it up the street is 'just playing games'.....(!)

You're a real ASSet to the force Flatfoot.

Then argue the ticket in court....alothough that most of the time is more expensive than just paying the ticket. I know in Calgary here if you show up to argue pretty much any parking ticket they let it slide....especially if you were working in the area....bring invoices to prove you were and explain to the "powers that be".....calmly I might add. Most people are quite reasonable....most.