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Article Source: http://sweetness-light.comThat's right. The District of Columbia is ticketing people who park their cars in their own driveways.
"This is clearly an attempt by the city to extort money out of property owners," Anderson tells WTOP.
Anderson has received two of the $20 tickets in the past month. Anderson has owned the Capitol Hill house (and the driveway, so she thought) for more than ten years and has never gotten a ticket. And she's not alone.
Does this mean we can have a picnic on anyone's front lawn in DC?
I know what I am doing this weekend...
#1 - Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:49 PM EDTI have heard of everything now... What is up with D.C., do they need more of our hard earned money to pay for their extravagant vacations and lifestyles... Maybe people need to put their cars in their homes to prevent legal robbery... I hope all the people starting sueing and make these people use their heads for something other than a hatrack.. It would not go over very well in California, I can guarantee that...
#2 - Thu May 7, 2009 3:40 PM EDTI keep wondering whether the city could come in and mandate certain plants, walkways, birdbaths, etc... in keeping with their ownership role.
I agree that this is more of a money grab than anything else.
#3 - Fri May 8, 2009 7:48 AM EDTSame in most cities and villages in Illinois, including, Chicago.
You need a current Parking sticker on the windshield if your plates show you as a resident of the City, town, or village you parked your car in or you can be ticketed and fined, it goes on your record as a non-moving violation, but affects your insurance..
Not for visitors to the town though. If you commute to another City or Town and have a garage where you live to park in where they can't get to your car, your OK.
Just don't park it in the driveway... carport.. street.. at the store... get pulled over for having long hair, being Black, Being Mexican, wearing a turban, or have an Apple computer© sticker on the bumper.
#4 - Fri May 8, 2009 8:14 AM EDTThis world seems to be a bit upside down.
I just heard that the police in a more upscale part of town here are ticketing people who leave their cars unlocked in their driveways.
Apparently the idea is that if people locked their doors they would not be robbed so often. The answer was to pass a law making unlocked doors a violation. [It is interesting to me that the police have to walk onto the owner's property in most cases to check this and to ticket the owner.]
I think that the reason for these sorts of laws are that it is much easier criminalize legal behavior than to stop the real criminals.
Question: Are they getting taxed on the properties that the police claim are not theirs?
#5 - Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:45 PM EDTWell that stinks. [And that reminds me, think I have an unpaid parking ticket from one of my junkets downtown. Hope I don't get "booted."]
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