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green73
03-11-2013, 09:37 AM
WASHINGTON - It can be hard enough to find a parking spot in the District, but when you do, there's a good chance you will get a ticket.

In fiscal year 2012, D.C. issued 1.8 million parking tickets worth $92.5 million, according to records obtained by AAA Mid-Atlantic. Most of those tickets went to drivers who live outside of D.C.

"It's a war on the 400,000 drivers who come into the city every day and desperately need parking. The District thinks it's winning this war, but it's not," says John B. Townsend II, AAA Mid-Atlantic's manager of public and government affairs.

Those 1.8 million tickets break down to about 7.3 tickets issued per minute and 436 parking tickets per hour, accounting for federal holidays and Sundays, when parking is free. It's also about a 6 percent drop in parking tickets from the previous year.

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http://wtop.com/109/3246340/In-DC-400-parking-tickets-per-hour

Kotin
03-11-2013, 10:22 AM
Reminds me of when I went to CPAC.. Josh got screwed by parking tickets..

MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2
03-11-2013, 10:33 AM
"It's a war on the 400,000 drivers who come into the city every day and desperately need parking. The District thinks it's winning this war, but it's not,"


Why does everything have to be a fucking war? I wish people would quit using that term unless they're talking about a war. It sure seemed to have helped the war on drugs turn into a real war, imo.

Anti Federalist
03-11-2013, 10:37 AM
Why does everything have to be a fucking war? I wish people would quit using that term unless they're talking about a war. It sure seemed to have helped the war on drugs turn into a real war, imo.

Acclimation.

War on Us.

green73
03-11-2013, 11:17 AM
Can a mod please fix the title?

noneedtoaggress
03-11-2013, 11:18 AM
When your solution to a problem is force, you're essentially trying to declare "war" on that problem. Prohibition has always been a war. War tactics against possession of certain substances. I think the term is used pretty appropriately a lot of the time, which really just goes to show how ridiculous things are. I mean when you're declaring "war" on things like drug possession you know you're in for failure. You know what they say about war being the health of the state though. Their means to achieve their ends is violence, so of course they're gonna be declare war on everything.

Ticketing might be pushing it a bit though, lol.

Keith and stuff
03-11-2013, 11:24 AM
That's over $50 a parking ticket. Where I live, parking tickets are for $5. Seems highly unreasonable to me. If the horrible traffic and ticket cameras weren't bad enough, this is yet another reason not to drive in DC.

thoughtomator
03-11-2013, 11:38 AM
They are absolutely vicious with those tickets. You can't walk down a block in DC without seeing at least one. It's an obvious revenue-generation scam. They do the same with speeding cameras as well.

tod evans
03-11-2013, 12:22 PM
Gotta pay the "Just-Us" employees.....

:mad:

Keith and stuff
03-11-2013, 12:25 PM
Can you Robin Hood in DC? It is possible to pay for other people's parking fees before the police place the tickets on cars? There is a massive effort to do it in Keene, New Hampshire and lots of people are noticing.

https://www.facebook.com/KeeneRobinHood

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Saving people from the parking tariff. Donations accepted here:
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Mission
Saving the good people from the king's tariff by depositing a small coin into the the "parking meters" so the the kings "Meter Maid" cannot demand their tax.

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There is even a thread about it on this forum. http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?402860-Some-Awesome-NH-Activism

thoughtomator
03-11-2013, 12:29 PM
People in DC are way too selfish to do that. They would not give a quarter to spare the next guy a $50 ticket.

Keith and stuff
03-11-2013, 12:36 PM
People in DC are way too selfish to do that. They would not give a quarter to spare the next guy a $50 ticket.

A quarter? It's only a nickel in Keene. There are some freedomish groups based on or near DC like Cato, Freedomworks, Young Americans for Liberty. Maybe someone with 1 of those groups could do something? It seems to be a news story right now so a good way to make liberty folks look good in DC, maybe? Anyone know anyone at those groups?