WTF Parking Moment of The Month
In what I hope won’t become a regular feature here at Metroblogging San Francisco - but could likely easily be a daily one - I present the first “WTF Parking Moment of the Month:
See, I was standing on Hyde Stree the other day when I saw this lady pull up and park her car at the meter across the street from me. Normal, right? Well, sure it was. Until she opened her trunk, pulled an Office Max plastic bag, and knotted it over the parking meter.
WTF?
I thought, perhaps, I was hallucinating as I watched the women calmly cross the street and enter a law school right after scamming some free parking.
While I bitch about efforts to make parking more difficult and expensive, I still think there’s a limit to getting away with something when it comes to gaming DPT. Taking advantage of meters with time left on them is fine. And it makes my day when I find a broken meter that will probably allow me to overstay an hour-limit, though it’s still a gamble.
But this woman was just a jerk.
If anyone has some brilliant theory on how such a scam is legal and or otherwise smart, okay, not-jerky, please, let me know. Volvos may make you safer, but they don’t entitle you to designate your own free parking. I’m sure that’s not in the owner’s manual.
But for now, there you go - the first Metroblogging San Francisco WTF Parking Moment Of The Month. Enjoy.
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I see it all the time..and you know what I do? I take the bags off as soon as I see the perp go in their building etc…and/or take down their license number and call the police.Also scamming are the disabled placards that construction workers use to park their cars..while they work at their job sites…again I call the media,take down license plate numbers,etc….and hope that it gets reported. That is about all you can do…keep your eyes open and report abuse of the system when you see it…maybe,over time people will learn through fines and chastisement what is right and wrong.I also report those workman who start their jackhammers at 7am and ruin my sleep…and all those others who plead ignorance of simple curtesy and respect.
It isn’t legal to park at a broken meter. If the meter was broken, they’d get a DPT ticket. If DPT finds the meter isn’t broken, they’ll also get a ticket. They aren’t fooling anyone but themselves, or perhaps a DPT ticketer who decides to give them a pass. (When does that ever happen?)
I didn’t know it was illegal to park at a broken meter. I’d always heard that you could park there, but still had to observe the time restrictions. I’ll be wary now, though, if that’s the case.
u know u write there shit down u ever think they dont have the money course u dont but its ok just think what comes around goes around so when u do it someone will do it to u now it dont have to be u maybe a family memeber but remeber everything u do to cause someone a problem what comes around goes around … heres a tip leave em alone