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Feb. 25th, 2012 12:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulySo, this guy got a summons for having his garbage cans out after pick-up.
And he fought it because he had video evidence proving that the allegation was totally false.
Now, there's a bill up to have summons of this sort all made with photographic evidence, and it's being fought by the mayor because it'd be "too much of a hassle". Like we don't all have cameras sitting in our pockets nowadays! Cameras are cheap, taking pictures is cheap, none of this is difficult.
The real reason, patently obvious to everybody, is that the city likes to issue lots and lots of petty tickets for revenue.
Just last month this guy got a ticket for sitting in a playground after closing and reading his Bible.
Now, the guy's a twit - it's been a long-standing rule that adults aren't allowed in playgrounds without children, and that all the public parks close at a set time posted on the gates. And while he might argue that "dusk is unclear!!!" and "the signs give two different times - dusk and 9pm", the fact is that he was there at sometime past 10pm, which in December is well past both dusk and 9 at night.
However, all that aside, there's no reason he should've gotten a ticket for it. Being asked to move along should've really been the end of it. He got the ticket because the cops have a quota, not because he was doing anything that really merited a fine.
And he fought it because he had video evidence proving that the allegation was totally false.
Now, there's a bill up to have summons of this sort all made with photographic evidence, and it's being fought by the mayor because it'd be "too much of a hassle". Like we don't all have cameras sitting in our pockets nowadays! Cameras are cheap, taking pictures is cheap, none of this is difficult.
The real reason, patently obvious to everybody, is that the city likes to issue lots and lots of petty tickets for revenue.
Just last month this guy got a ticket for sitting in a playground after closing and reading his Bible.
Now, the guy's a twit - it's been a long-standing rule that adults aren't allowed in playgrounds without children, and that all the public parks close at a set time posted on the gates. And while he might argue that "dusk is unclear!!!" and "the signs give two different times - dusk and 9pm", the fact is that he was there at sometime past 10pm, which in December is well past both dusk and 9 at night.
However, all that aside, there's no reason he should've gotten a ticket for it. Being asked to move along should've really been the end of it. He got the ticket because the cops have a quota, not because he was doing anything that really merited a fine.
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Date: 2012-02-28 04:06 pm (UTC)Now that we don't live within the city limits (the city supplies cans for their service area), we have to supply our own garbage can (though we don't have to use cans at all). We gave up on the trash can thing altogether after someone took ours after we left it out for too long.
As for the article itself, it reeks of shady summons issuance. Cameras are small, cheap, and easy enough to use that it shouldn't be an issue. The hardest part would be a way to connect the image with the ticket (which would be stupidly easy if/when the organization migrates to tablets or smartphones to fill out the tickets, if they're not there already).