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 From: liberty@once.net 
  
 BEWARE THE "NIGHT REGULATIONS" PARKING TICKET SCAM! 
  
 The streets must be cleaned, so we must move our parked vehicles to allow 
 this to be done. Once a week is sufficient, though where residents have not 
 complained enough about the inconvenience, alternate side rules requiring 
 two moves a week still exist. THREE times a week is obviously unnecessary, 
 and equally unnecessary is that the parking ban hours for alleged 
 streetcleaning purposes be in the early AM. This is really not done for 
 cleaning the streets though, it is in fact a deceptive tactic to TAKE OUR 
 MONEY THROUGH PARKING TICKET FINES! 
  
 On Brooklyn's Coney Island Avenue between Aves. O and P, among many other 
 locations, alternate side rules ban parking THREE times a week. The signs 
 say "NIGHT REGULATION, midnight to 3AM, TUES. THURS. SAT." The signs say 
 nothing about Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, so one tends to assume that say 
 Saturday regulations will not get them a ticket on Friday night. 
 Deceptively, the signs say NIGHT regulations, not EARLY MORNING regulations. 
 But park there on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday night and return at 5 minutes 
 past 12:00, technically the next day, and you'll be greeted by a $45 parking 
 ticket! Yes, the cops swoop down as soon as the clock strikes midnight, 
 exposing the true purpose of these "regulations." If really for 
 streetcleaning, why would they pay sanitation workers higher night pay, when 
 the job is cheaper to do during the day? 
  
 Obviously it is not necessary to clean the streets three times a week, nor 
 is there any reason to prohibit parking in the early AM hours. The sole 
 purpose of this is to SCREW THE MOTORIST OUT OF $45! And like the 
 subservient sheep so many Americans have become, not enough people have had 
 the courage to fight this robbery to put an end to it. 
  
 Will this ticket scam be stopped as a result of publicizing this? It could 
 be if enough of us act to stop it. The politician perpetrators of this 
 racket care nothing for public convenience, fairness, or justice, but for 
 money and money alone. Never forget how Billionaire Bloomberg fought tooth 
 and nail to keep Sunday parking meter rules in effect, but was finally 
 overruled by the City Council. Without action by the public, such abuses go 
 on and we continue to be robbed by a government paid by our taxes supposedly 
 to serve us. 
  
 "When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear 
 the government, there is tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson 
  
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