XPost: nyc.announce, nyc.general, nyc.politics 
 XPost: nyc.transit 
 From: dunno@yahoo.com 
  
 Freedom Fighter wrote: 
 > 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? 
  
 Brooklyn's Coney Island Avenue between Aves. O and P has many Jewish 
 residents.  Jewish days begin the night before.  And police are very 
 vigilant about traffic and parking violations in Jewish areas. 
  
 > 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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