DC Parking Shenanigans

Herr wrote:

Jaguar wrote:
Guess they don't want our business then.

I always hear this "I guess they don't want our business" argument.   But in case anyone hasn't noticed, DC is booming, like almost no other city in the nation.   It's a pretty well established notion that people who bitch on the internet generally don't actually *do* anything – and if one or two people stop coming to DC that's not going to have any impact.

The reason I have no sympathy for parking complainers is that I have a car in the city and I generally get one ticket every 5 years or so.   If you bother to follow the law, once in a long while you'll get unjustly ticketed (and it's easy enough to write a letter and get it dropped) – but it's overwhelmingly the case that most tickets are earned.

You do know without the federal government paying all that money to DC and the government jobs and governement contracts due to the out of control federal government spending DC would be a wasteland? 

ANd the reason you don't get tickets is that the DC parking enforcers are instructed to ticket VA and MD licenced vehicles and not DC and other states.

atomicfront wrote:

ANd the reason you don't get tickets is that the DC parking enforcers are instructed to ticket VA and MD licenced vehicles and not DC and other states.

Can you please say more about this?

sweetcell wrote:

Relaxer wrote:

Jaguar wrote:
Doomie's favorite flavor must be boot black because he often proves how much he just luuuvvves licking boots.  ::)

Must have been a hardcore Nazi in a past life. Totally fits the MO.

Wow you really are an asshole.

seriously.  we were having a nice discussion here, and jagermeister shows up and start calling people nazis (thank you godwin).  apparently jag needs a few lessons in civility. 

Leave it to the 3 Stooges to stick together when it comes to kissing ass and boot licking!

Btw, the animosity began when Doom went off spewing his typical contempt towards anyone outside of the District proper.  ::)

I actually got a wrongful ticket about 3 weeks ago.  But instead of bitching about it, and equating parking enforcement to Nazism, I sent a letter in, and got a card saying my case is being "adjudicated."  In a few weeks I expect to hear back that the ticket has been dropped.    On to the next white whine.

^ Well, good for you! Seriously.

Unfortunately, it's not always that easy for many others. Obviously, there's a problem in the area that needs to be addressed so as not to unfairly suck money, time and stress out of lots of people, be they local or just across the beltway.

A good whine is therapeutic and helps to communicate the problem which may result in a solution. Sucking it up and letting them get away with it only allows them to take even more liberties with and from us.

A good wine can be good for the nerves and pleasant for the palate. Cheers!

Christine, several years ago, I got the very same ticket, probably in the same place. The damn sign was halfway down the street! Hope you win this one! Let us know.

wow, twice in 180 days constitutes a "habitual offender", or someone who possibly lives there??? not that I drive into DC daily, or possibly even monthly, sometimes I take the Metro, but I know it's more than twice every six months….. this type of "enforcement" is not specific to DC, way back in the day, I had to live in a "month to month" apartment rental community in Columbia while waiting to be able to move into my new home, and apparently the MD authorities would troll the parking lots there to see if the same "out of state" cars were parked there nightly……. the difference, of course, is that it was a RESIDENTIAL community, no reason to be there nightly unless you lived there, as opposed to parking on the street in a business area, right next to a nightclub and numerous restaurants, that'll draw MD-VA residents on a nightly basis…..

Herr wrote:
I actually got a wrongful ticket about 3 weeks ago.  But instead of bitching about it, and equating parking enforcement to Nazism, I sent a letter in, and got a card saying my case is being "adjudicated."   In a few weeks I expect to hear back that the ticket has been dropped.     On to the next white whine.

…so…are you in favor of the policy that kicked off this thread or not?

Frank wrote:
I just remembered I got a ticket for parking arse in (or was it nose in) down on the river in Georgetown. Eveidently you're only supposed to park **** in, whichever was the opposite of how I parked.

No biggie….but I was in G'town a lot so checked the signs out of interest and there was no notice to park in any particular way so so contested the ticket. I was told "you should've known" which is a typical DC government retarded attitude to take, so I told them they should know I'm not paying their fucking fine.

I never heard a peep from them over it.

I know whereabouts you refer. It's back in only (arse). There is a sign - one - a small one at that - facing out (toward opposing traffic) placed at the first parking space. Yet, there are 50 or so parking spaces down the line, so if you parked further away, there is no way you would see it. People get tickets there (or did, I don't know if some of those spaces are still there) all the time. And the sign went missing or crumpled from something, so again, know what your are talking about and it was a joke w/ meter maids running about and irate people all day. (bldg used to face there)

Kubacheck wrote:
…… the difference, of course, is that it was a RESIDENTIAL community, no reason to be there nightly unless you lived there, as opposed to parking on the street in a business area, right next to a nightclub and numerous restaurants, that'll draw MD-VA residents on a nightly basis…..

are the tickets only placed around businesses such as the above? (offices do not apply?/certain areas of dc?)

Nomeimporta wrote:

Kubacheck wrote:
…… the difference, of course, is that it was a RESIDENTIAL community, no reason to be there nightly unless you lived there, as opposed to parking on the street in a business area, right next to a nightclub and numerous restaurants, that'll draw MD-VA residents on a nightly basis…..

are the tickets only placed around businesses such as the above? (offices do not apply?/certain areas of dc?)

Even residential communities have their visitors. In this day and age, it's not in the least uncommon for one to spend the night with one's lover who may live on the other side of the line.

Regarding DC, there's also those who work at night and can't even take the Metro home due to it not operating after certain hours. Lots and lots of different scenarios. This is definitely a very flawed policy and made worse by some over-zealous patrols and/or quotas types of bosses. Seems they would need more than 2 occasions, even 2 days apart, to rightfully nab someone for such an offense.

Jaguar wrote:

Nomeimporta wrote:

Kubacheck wrote:
…… the difference, of course, is that it was a RESIDENTIAL community, no reason to be there nightly unless you lived there, as opposed to parking on the street in a business area, right next to a nightclub and numerous restaurants, that'll draw MD-VA residents on a nightly basis…..

are the tickets only placed around businesses such as the above? (offices do not apply?/certain areas of dc?)

Even residential communities have their visitors. In this day and age, it's not in the least uncommon for one to spend the night with one's lover who may live on the other side of the line.

Regarding DC, there's also those who work at night and can't even take the Metro home due to it not operating after certain hours. Lots and lots of different scenarios. This is definitely a very flawed policy and made worse by some over-zealous patrols and/or quotas types of bosses. Seems they would need more than 2 occasions, even 2 days apart, to rightfully nab someone for such an offense.

agreed….. I just can't imagine having to register my car for a 6 month exemption simply because I have a friend that lives in DC….. and then there's the fact that the 930 Club is right next to a University, which, no matter what college you're near, there are always lots of cars with out of state plates…..

yeah people who spend $ to drink and bring revenue to DC and then NOT drive home drunk and stay at a friend's…

"Gee, honey. Things seem to be getting serious between us. Maybe we should take our relationship to the next phase. Tomorrow morning, bright and early, I'm going to apply for a 6 month non-resident parking exemption! That is, if you'll have me."

The following week, all the girls coo over their work mate's lover's parking exemption.

Then some will go as far as having parking exemption parties and dinners. Of course, only the very immediate locals and those who haven't been in the area in the past 6 months will be able to attend.

The guys will be ragging on the male with 'ball and chain' jokes while secretly envying his parking exemption status.


Right out of some weird futurist science fiction novel.

Jaguar wrote:
"Gee, honey. Things seem to be getting serious between us. Maybe we should take our relationship to the next phase. Tomorrow morning, bright and early, I'm going to apply for a 6 month non-resident parking exemption! That is, if you'll have me."

The following week, all the girls coo over their work mate's lover's parking exemption.

Then some will go as far as having parking exemption parties and dinners. Of course, only the very immediate locals and those who haven't been in the area in the past 6 months will be able to attend.

The guys will be ragging on the male with 'ball and chain' jokes while secretly envying his parking exemption status.


Right out of some weird futurist science fiction novel.

ha!!! glad I wasn't sipping my beer when I read this, it'd be all over the computer now……

Jaguar wrote:
"Gee, honey. Things seem to be getting serious between us. Maybe we should take our relationship to the next phase. Tomorrow morning, bright and early, I'm going to apply for a 6 month non-resident parking exemption! That is, if you'll have me."

brilliant.

the indignant over the top bleating about this is just amazing…   suck it up or stay away…

Herr wrote:
the indignant over the top bleating about this is just amazing…   suck it up or stay away…

You sound like Rhett when he used to live in the district.

BTW - it's no secret that MD, VA and DC cops target cars from the other two *states for tickets. That's been going on for years.


* I consider DC a state because after all…it's in a right fucking state.

DC should have a sensible commuter tax that allows the city to recoup its costs for catering to suburbanites all day.  Because that will never happen, I say soak the MD/VA folks as much as possible.

Sure, that results in individual absurdities like this situation, but it's no more absurd than DC residents subsidizing suburbanites for using their city to the tune of more than $1 billion annually.

HoyaSaxa03 wrote:
DC should have a sensible commuter tax that allows the city to recoup its costs for catering to suburbanites all day.  Because that will never happen, I say soak the MD/VA folks as much as possible.

Sure, that results in individual absurdities like this situation, but it's no more absurd than DC residents subsidizing suburbanites for using their city to the tune of more than $1 billion annually.

bingo.

I say MD and VA should claim the land back they donated to establish DC and fuck the lot of you townies.