This one happened a couple of days ago, and was pretty funny, actually.
There's a parking lot in sight of the parkade where I work. Pay lot, you get a ticket from the dispenser. I can see it from the booth, but it's not my responsibility. Still, I report when the ticket machine fails, or when there's exceptionally asstardery afoot.
This is a story of the latter.
There is one student who drives a big, black, shiny new Hummer H2 to school, 2-3 days of the week. I suspect it must belong to Mommy or Daddy, and I wonder at the sanity of letting a college kid commute to school in the thing day after day. Gas costs and parking issues aside, it's the only truck of it's kind on the campus, and might as well have a giant neon sign over it flashing 'STEAL ME!'.
Well, the driver of said overpriced, ugly monstrosity is none too bright. He rolls up to the campus at 10am. Naturally, there's no parking, but that doesn't deter him! After all, that's what 4 wheel drive is for! After a string of simply parking in the no parking zones, he escalated to driving right up onto the lawn and parking there. Right next to the road, in plain sight.
Last semester, we were short of bylaw officers, so he actually got away with this, but not this year. So, I noticed him doing this, and a bylaw officer was rapidly dispatched and ticketed him. That's not the good part.
The next day, we had an officer bylawing in the parkade itself. He was up on the 7th floor. I was in the booth when I saw the great dark SUV of Mordor pull into the lot and start hunting.
Sure enough, he pulled up onto the lawn again. I hopped out of my booth to watch, and called it in. The officer on the 7th floor heard, and leaned over the side to watch as well. He nearly left the vehicle, but appeared to forget something, came back, fished around in the glove compartment and stuck something under the windshield wiper.
The bylaw officer went down to the lot, and discovered what it was: Yesterday's ticket. Chucklenuts figured if he already HAD a ticket on his vehicle, we wouldn't ticket him again!
Nice Try!
Yeah, he got a ticket. And if we catch him again, he gets towed, and he gets to explain THAT to Mommy or Daddy.
There's a parking lot in sight of the parkade where I work. Pay lot, you get a ticket from the dispenser. I can see it from the booth, but it's not my responsibility. Still, I report when the ticket machine fails, or when there's exceptionally asstardery afoot.
This is a story of the latter.
There is one student who drives a big, black, shiny new Hummer H2 to school, 2-3 days of the week. I suspect it must belong to Mommy or Daddy, and I wonder at the sanity of letting a college kid commute to school in the thing day after day. Gas costs and parking issues aside, it's the only truck of it's kind on the campus, and might as well have a giant neon sign over it flashing 'STEAL ME!'.
Well, the driver of said overpriced, ugly monstrosity is none too bright. He rolls up to the campus at 10am. Naturally, there's no parking, but that doesn't deter him! After all, that's what 4 wheel drive is for! After a string of simply parking in the no parking zones, he escalated to driving right up onto the lawn and parking there. Right next to the road, in plain sight.
Last semester, we were short of bylaw officers, so he actually got away with this, but not this year. So, I noticed him doing this, and a bylaw officer was rapidly dispatched and ticketed him. That's not the good part.
The next day, we had an officer bylawing in the parkade itself. He was up on the 7th floor. I was in the booth when I saw the great dark SUV of Mordor pull into the lot and start hunting.
Sure enough, he pulled up onto the lawn again. I hopped out of my booth to watch, and called it in. The officer on the 7th floor heard, and leaned over the side to watch as well. He nearly left the vehicle, but appeared to forget something, came back, fished around in the glove compartment and stuck something under the windshield wiper.
The bylaw officer went down to the lot, and discovered what it was: Yesterday's ticket. Chucklenuts figured if he already HAD a ticket on his vehicle, we wouldn't ticket him again!
Nice Try!
Yeah, he got a ticket. And if we catch him again, he gets towed, and he gets to explain THAT to Mommy or Daddy.
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