1/04/2008

Bullshit and the price of parking tickets

Another parking ticket. This time, it's for being within 20 feet of a crosswalk. Before it was for being within 30 feet of a traffic sign. Now, at least in Minneapolis, they pretty much post where you can and can't park with clearly visible signs. St. Paul must be lacking the proper funding needed to get these signs in place and to avoid having people get fined...ooh! I see what they did there.

The fines I've paid this year alone (year starting June, '07.) would have most likely funded the proper signage in the immediate areas where I park my vehicle.

I'm just worried that I'm going to get a ticket for "parking within 20 feet of (random colored) house".

Ridiculous.

3 comments:

Jess said...

I've heard St. Paul is a bit pickier about some of the lesser-known parking rules. Like parking in front of the ... street access, I guess it's called. The little bit of sidewalk that goes to the curb.

Wish they did that in Minneapolis. Maybe the asshole who keeps parking in front of ours so I have to walk two houses down or scale a snowbank would finally stop parking there.

Geoff said...

Ugh. I'm just mad because I was going to specifically spend that $25 on some solid guy on girl porn.

Jess said...

That's a pretty big disappointment. Now you're relegated to what? Browsing the bargain bin. You might end up with hermaphrodite porn or something. Eeek!

There's always the internet, though.