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Worst Person I've Ever Ticketed!
I like to keep the fire lanes clear on my shift. It's hard in front of the *al *art because it's just so busy. So our policy is giving vehicles a warning to move after they've been sitting for 3-minutes. After about another 5-minutes, we ticket. If the vehicle is unoccupied and sitting for 5-minutes, it automatically gets a ticket. I always time on my watch.
I was on the sidewalk going to get something for lunch. There were 2-cars sitting in the lane with people in them. I gave the first car a warning. The second car had only a passenger, but I asked her if she could move the car just the same. I told both I'd give them 2-more minutes. THEN I recognized the passenger in the 2nd car. She's a foul-mouthed girl anywhere from the age of 16-30, though I'm thinking young 20s, very in-your-face, that I have actually ticketed twice before in another car as the driver for....sitting in the fire lane! Both times she cursed me out too. But I give her the same warning as the other car and go in the store. 4-minutes later actually I come out and both cars are still sitting there. The first car moves, angry girl refuses, screaming I'm always picking on her, I'm out to get her, she doesn't have a license, etc. I simply say that in that case I'll have to ticket the vehicle since she can't move it. She then drives the vehicle and parks. I go back to the office.
7-minutes later I go outside to stock the security vehicle, look down the sidewalk and see that the car is BACK IN THE FIRE LANE! This time it's empty. Since it's also 3-strikes your out, I start the ticket. angry girl comes-out of the store, looks at me and climbs into the passenger seat. I finished the ticket and put it on the windshield. Cue her screaming at me again that I'm out to get her, I didn't tell any other cars to move, her friend has a bad leg and can't walk far... I can't get a word in edgewise. Oh, about the walking, this car had handicap tags; there was an open handicap spot directly across from where the car was sitting, 20 feet max!
I ask her to calm down, customers are staring and her language was making the stonework flake! She kept screaming, yanked the ticket off the car and said that she was going to take it and shove it up my a**! I just nodded 'all right' and walked away. She screams after me that it's 'nothing' for her to pay a $15 ticket, blah blah blah.
Joy of joys, her friend comes out, now pissed that there's a ticket on her car because of angry girl, who flips it all so that it was completely my fault. Now they're both screaming. I cut them off and said that their behavior was unacceptable and I was telling them now to leave property. They refused. I said I would call the police. They got in the car, but pulled into a parking space. I told them no, you are leaving now. Cue angry girl getting out of the car to scream at me more, plus now they were waiting for a friend. Uh-Huh. I just starting pulling away with my phone in my hand. They, surprisingly, got back in the car and left.
Gods!
I admit, I've run into angry girl far more than usual; it seems like she was picking-up her friend after a shift at the store at a certain time which overlapped with the time I do most of my outdoor tours; lunch time and dinner time when there's the most traffic. Pure coincidence. And hers is a very common car, so I didn't know it was the same person until the computer informed me it was already in the system. Sigh. I don't think I've seen the last of them, and wrote a page-long detail for my Manager so she doesn't get any surprises!
And the combined force of their screaming started me a migraine for the rest of the night!
I was on the sidewalk going to get something for lunch. There were 2-cars sitting in the lane with people in them. I gave the first car a warning. The second car had only a passenger, but I asked her if she could move the car just the same. I told both I'd give them 2-more minutes. THEN I recognized the passenger in the 2nd car. She's a foul-mouthed girl anywhere from the age of 16-30, though I'm thinking young 20s, very in-your-face, that I have actually ticketed twice before in another car as the driver for....sitting in the fire lane! Both times she cursed me out too. But I give her the same warning as the other car and go in the store. 4-minutes later actually I come out and both cars are still sitting there. The first car moves, angry girl refuses, screaming I'm always picking on her, I'm out to get her, she doesn't have a license, etc. I simply say that in that case I'll have to ticket the vehicle since she can't move it. She then drives the vehicle and parks. I go back to the office.
7-minutes later I go outside to stock the security vehicle, look down the sidewalk and see that the car is BACK IN THE FIRE LANE! This time it's empty. Since it's also 3-strikes your out, I start the ticket. angry girl comes-out of the store, looks at me and climbs into the passenger seat. I finished the ticket and put it on the windshield. Cue her screaming at me again that I'm out to get her, I didn't tell any other cars to move, her friend has a bad leg and can't walk far... I can't get a word in edgewise. Oh, about the walking, this car had handicap tags; there was an open handicap spot directly across from where the car was sitting, 20 feet max!
I ask her to calm down, customers are staring and her language was making the stonework flake! She kept screaming, yanked the ticket off the car and said that she was going to take it and shove it up my a**! I just nodded 'all right' and walked away. She screams after me that it's 'nothing' for her to pay a $15 ticket, blah blah blah.
Joy of joys, her friend comes out, now pissed that there's a ticket on her car because of angry girl, who flips it all so that it was completely my fault. Now they're both screaming. I cut them off and said that their behavior was unacceptable and I was telling them now to leave property. They refused. I said I would call the police. They got in the car, but pulled into a parking space. I told them no, you are leaving now. Cue angry girl getting out of the car to scream at me more, plus now they were waiting for a friend. Uh-Huh. I just starting pulling away with my phone in my hand. They, surprisingly, got back in the car and left.
Gods!
I admit, I've run into angry girl far more than usual; it seems like she was picking-up her friend after a shift at the store at a certain time which overlapped with the time I do most of my outdoor tours; lunch time and dinner time when there's the most traffic. Pure coincidence. And hers is a very common car, so I didn't know it was the same person until the computer informed me it was already in the system. Sigh. I don't think I've seen the last of them, and wrote a page-long detail for my Manager so she doesn't get any surprises!
And the combined force of their screaming started me a migraine for the rest of the night!
Cheapest I've seen are $100-$150. Personally, I'd tell her that next time she doesn't get a warning, it's an automatic ticket. And if she chooses to raise her voice at you ever again, it's an automatic ban for the day and/or a call to the police.
If so, I'm sure the local po-po would be interested to hear about that...
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